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Recipes, Travels, and Stories
My aunt came into town and helped me rearrange my pantry. Once I knew what was in my pantry, it was easy to decide what to make for dinner. I had some Pasta Roni's Butter and Garlic noodles, sundried tomatoes, black olives, chickpeas, and canned chicken in the pantry. What could I make for dinner?… Continue reading Sundried Tomato Garlic Noodles – A pantry meal (Vegetarian)
The Imaginative One turned 13 last month. A tradition in our house is for me to cook one of the birthday boy's favorite meals for their birthday. We had the Imaginative One's dinner the day after his birthday because we had planned to be out on his birthday. So what is one of the Imaginative One's… Continue reading Cheesy Orzo Pasta (Simple Side Dish)
Last weekend I found a blog that gave the exact portions to make a one pot pasta dish. I decided to attempt to use the guidelines to make my own dish. I've been loving sundried tomatoes lately. So it was only logical that I used sundried tomatoes in this recipe. Yum! This dish would be… Continue reading Sundried Tomato, Chicken, & Feta Cheese – One Pot Pasta Dish
A few years ago, my aunt sent me a little stand up photo album with family favorite recipes. When I was menu planning this week, I decided to check out those recipes. I ended up choosing to make her chicken Parmesan. It's a one skillet recipe and done in less than 30 minutes. Score! I… Continue reading Aunt Missy’s Easy Skillet Chicken Parmesan
One of my favorite comfort food is macaroni and cheese. I have shared my favorite slow cooker mac and cheese, healthier mac and cheese, and make over mac and cheese. Now I've found another favorite macaroni and cheese. This recipe takes less than 30 minutes from start to finish. Yum! I use an electric pressure cooker.… Continue reading Pressure Cooker Mac and Cheese
Here is another easy recipe that I found in my Evernote account. This is an easy skillet dish. Enjoy with easy peasy garlic bread. Sausage Skillet Pasta Stars of the recipe: 1/2 box of penne pasta or any other small pasta 1 pound sausage (Italian, mild, or hot) 1/2 onion, diced 1 (15 oz.) can… Continue reading Sausage Pasta Skillet
Soon after I was married in 1999, my mom gave me a recipe for lasagna that involved no boiling of the noodles. I've made it that way for the past almost 17 years. I can't believe I haven't shared the recipe for my lasagna before. It takes a while to prepare it but it's worth… Continue reading Crockpot Lasagna
The other day I went an event. They served frozen lasagna. It made me crave homemade lasagna so I decided make some. I asked Hubby to get me the ingredients for my lasagna. Rather then using store bought sauce, I decided to use my spaghetti sauce recipe. I adapted the recipe for the pressure… Continue reading Pressure Cooker Homemade Spaghetti Sauce
My family usually prefers the blue box for macaroni and cheese so it's hard to find a homemade macaroni and cheese that they would love. This is one macaroni and cheese recipe that they enjoyed eating. This recipe makes a LOT of macaroni and cheese. I made this dish on a Saturday night. We ate… Continue reading Creamy Mac and Cheese (Countdown to Thanksgiving)
I've signed up for a 31 day writing challenge. Everyday in October, I am posting a new slow cooker recipe, a link to a previous posted slow cooker recipe, or a link to a recipe from another blog. Tomorrow is the last day of the writing challenge. I'm getting ready for my next two series.… Continue reading Chicken Parmesan (Day 30)
