Baked Oatmeal

 

Here’s the thing. Two things actually:

1. Oatmeal is really good for you

2. I hate oatmeal

On a mission to somehow learn to like it, I have discovered the answer: BAKED oatmeal. This comes out as a cross between oatmeal cookie and some kind of oatmeal crisp topping. And it’s for breakfast, people!

 

 

I started out with two [...]

What to do when your thermometer probe stops working

Here is my thermometer one morning on yogurt making day; this is a day during which I desperately needed my thermometer to work. See this? That is my thermometer registering 103 degrees. Please to notice the probe is sitting on the counter. This. Is. Not. Good. After a lot of quality time [...]

Cultural divide Casserole

It’s cold here. Yes, it’s the South and I am a big baby about cold but I swear: it’s actually cold.

And cold, of course = comfort food.

This is where the cultural divide comes in. One of my favorite comfort foods is a dish my mother used to make:
~ ground beef, browned and drained
~ cooked pasta, [...]

Epic muffin fail: a lesson in bakeware

I had some frozen bananas to use, so I pulled up the recipe for Aunt Mickey’s Famous Banana Bread from Rumble in the Kitchen. This recipe is brilliant! So quick and easy.  My crap bakeware and I take full responsibility for the partial failure of these muffins.

I wanted to make mini muffins with the batter [...]

Healthy chicken nuggets

The Kiddo loves him some chicken nuggets. Don’t most kids? Although he would prefer they always be from Chick Fil A, I thought we’d branch out and try them at home.

I started out with just one chicken breast, boneless and skinless. I cut it into bite-sized nuggets, and got myself all set up:

Yogurt: it's what's for breakfast. And lunch. And supper.

The Kiddo has a nearly unholy love for yogurt. It is his failsafe, will-eat-anytime food even when he won’t eat anything else. I make it myself for two reasons:
1. It’s SO much cheaper. A quart of organic milk to make my own yogurt costs me $1.50. A quart of organic yogurt in the store costs [...]

KAF whole wheat sandwich bread

The Kiddo loves this bread (that’s it in the header up there). That alone earns the recipe a special place in my kitchen. Plus, it’s EASY, and so good! Store bought bread no longer compares — this is the good stuff.

I actually don’t stray a bit from the KAF recipe, so I’ll let you follow [...]

Tortilla Soup

January is the perfect time for a pot of tortilla soup! My friend Rachel gave me this recipe after I devoured admired a pot of it at her house. And it’s so easy to make!
You will need:

Black beans, 2 cans (I used some I’d previously cooked from dry in the crock pot)
Corn, 1 can
Diced tomatoes, [...]