Simple recipes
How To Cook Northern Beans
In the past, I have explained how to use a pressure cooker for cooking beans. Read the posts, Homecooked Garbanzo Beans and Simple Bean Soup. The steps are the same, the seasonings and cooking times are different. Pressure cookers do come in different sizes, so be sure to read the user’s guide before cooking.
NEVER NEVER, [...]
Fried Okra Recipe
Oooo wee! WE LOVE FRIED OKRA!!! I’m not talking about those frozen bags you find in the grocery store. I mean, FRESH FRIED OKRA. Crispy, corny, salty outside. Soft, green, sweet inside. I’m drooling just looking at the picture. Aren’t you?
My Memaw used to painstakingly turn over individual okra pieces in her frying pan until [...]
Joe’s Baked Egg Muffins
I just came from Joejhorn’s blog, My Cooking Quest and grabbed a fantastic breakfast!
All it takes is a couple of slices of bread, butter, crumbled bacon, two eggs, a little cream, salt & pepper, topped off with a pinch of cheese.
You know when you’re eating something really good and you reach down to your plate [...]
Simple White Bean Soup
There’s a lot more flavor in this simple soup than the photograph can portray.
Simple White Bean Soup is perfect to make ahead for work day lunches, no matter what the temperature is outside. It’s light and filling and totally healthy!
My only mistake in making it was that I didn’t make enough. The original recipe came [...]
Simple Banana Nut Bars
These Banana Nut Bars bake up in half the time that it takes to make Banana Bread. AND they’re just as moist as if they were baked the day before. This recipe fills a 13×9×2 inch pan, so be ready to run some of these over to your neighbors house after they’re baked up.
HERE’S ALL [...]
Back to School Week Recipes
This is an exciting week. Everyone is heading back to those school week routines after a long summer break. For some, swinging into the drive through tonight, grabbing a happy meal and discussing the first day back, may be the plan of action. That’s cool. The first day for all of [...]
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Simple Chickpea Salad
This chickpea salad is super fast to throw together and tastes AWESOME! It’s very filling and makes a perfect light meal.
I’ve made it a habit to cook up a bag of chickpeas in the pressure cooker, so I can have them on hand when the craving hits. Yesterday, I made Charlie a batch of [...]
Pineapple Banana Smoothie
One Serving
1/3 cup crushed ice
1 large rip banana
1/2 cup nonfat vanilla yogurt
1/3 to 1/2 cup unsweetened pineapple juice
Blend until smooth either in a blender or with a immersion blender (I love mine).
DRINK UP!
My kiddos naturally loved drinking my breakfast smoothie. I asked them before I got started if they wanted one. I was [...]
20Aug2008 | Jill | 2 comments | Continued
Strawberry Smoothie
I’ve been playing with my immersion blender again and I’m having smoothie cravings. Here’s another recipe that turned out refreshing and filled my tummy. (This time, I made enough for EVERYBODY.)
1/2 cup crushed ice
1 cup orange juice
1 cup nonfat vanilla yogurt
6 to 8 ripe strawberries, cleaned & quartered
Blend until smooth in a drink [...]
20Aug2008 | Jill | 4 comments | Continued
Easy Taco Salad
Taco Salad takes very little time to throw together and it only takes a little of this, a little of that.
HERE’S ALL YOU NEED
cooked ground beef seasoned with chili powder & cumin
green leafy lettuce
can of kidney beans, drained
shredded monterey jack & cheddar cheese
medium tomato, roughly chopped
purple onion, thinly sliced
tortillas chips
salt & pepper
Catalina dressing or Thousand [...]
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