Pantry Revisited

This week in our group we could choose a green vegetable.  Something that might go well as a side with your holiday meal. Can you believe it is only ten days until Christmas?  What a year this has been.   In our family, we always make green bean casserole.  Its just what we love.  But for this post, I chose to do a broccoli dish.  We actually loved it.  I hope if you try it you will too!  It is easy! For chicken broth, I have been using Orrington Farms broth base for quite some time and I love it.  Because it is a dry mix, I just mix with hot water and I always have broth on hand. You can order from Amazon.   https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01G9IS7K6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 In two weeks, we will make something special with carrots.  Check back then.  If you would like to join our group, please let me know. Other team members are : grandmaskitchentable.typepad.com   Kayte teaandscones.wordpress.com   Margaret Https://noe847.blogspot.com   Nancy https://fis

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!  I had birthday followed by huge Thanksgiving feast, followed by birthday party of my adorable yummy four year old granddaughter!  I was fooded out (is that a word) the early part of this week, but I am ready to eat again now!    Okay so how many of you watch the precious videos of Brenda Gantt cooking?   Oh my goodness what a joy she is to watch.   I was inspired by her this week when I watched her make cabbage casserole.  I had never heard of it, but my dear friend in Atlanta, Carol, told me how much she liked it so I gave it a try. It is easy to put together.  The first night we did not like it much, but the following nights it grew on us and it seemed to get better and better.  For me, however, I think I will stick to plain, boiled cabbage from now on.  There was just something not right for me with cheese mixed with cabbage!  Everyone should try it though.  Might just be your favorite comfort food ever! Our members : grandmaskitchentable.typ

Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday and it is just around the corner!   Why is it my favorite?  First, it is an opportunity for me to reflect on all the good in my life and be thankful.  Thankful for my family, friends, good health, and another day to celebrate just being here!  Second , it is the one day of the year that I get to eat the most delicious foods and nibble all day long if I choose!  It is also my birthday.  I was born the day before and this year it falls that way again.  At my age, I am past needing recognition of my day, parties, cakes, presents, though they are very much appreciated if they do happen to come my way.  Just so happy to be starting another year!  Wishing you all a blessed Thanksgiving filled with peace, joy and love. Our vegetable this week in our GRGF group is cauliflower.  I was excited because it is one of my favorites.  I made a very simple recipe and it was oh so mouth watering good.   Roasted in the oven in my Le Creuset cast iron dutch

  It’s that wonderful time of the year across America when people are packing up their bikinis, getting out their sweaters, and decorating with all things pumpkin.  To me it’s the coziest time of the year!  However, here in Florida it is still quite warm.   I don’t mind because I know I do not have a harsh cold winter ahead of me!   There were so many wonderful recipes to choose from when it comes to pumpkin.  There are pies and cookies, breads and cakes, and let’s not forget those delicious lattes.  I chose to do some mini-pies.  A bit larger than tarts, but not as large as a regular pie.  Please, no judgment on my crusts!  I have never learned the art of crimping pie crusts.  My friend Kayte gave me a wonderful recipe for them several years ago and it is still my go-to.  Now if I could only master the crimping!  For this recipe, I used Pillsbury's pie crusts. These are so delicious.  If you love pumpkin pie, you will love these.  Nothing difficult about making them.  I used ramek

We are focused on zucchini this week in my Good Friends Good Food group.  I had a hard time choosing a recipe because zucchini is one of my favorites and there are so many ways that you can use it!   I thought about muffins and zucchini bread - both favorites especially this time of the year!  But then I narrowed it down to two chicken dishes and I ended up making both of them this week!   For purposes of this group and this blog I chose to highlight the chicken zucchini casserole.    I found a recipe on Pinterest that really sparked my interest and then I tweaked it a bit to make it more to our liking.  And liking we did!   Honestly this was so good and we enjoyed the leftovers just as much as the first dinner.  I will definitely be putting this in our dinner rotation.  It is the perfect weeknight dinner.  I found it easy to make and only uses a few ingredients.  I cooked my chicken breasts quickly in the instant pot and then chopped them up .   Diced up the zucchini . Then  you just

This week in my GFGF food group we are focusing on tomatoes!  There is nothing tastier in the summer to me than a fresh tomato pulled right from the vine.  While I do not have any plants of my own, I do try to buy Organic vine-ripened tomatoes.  The thought of tomato season coming to an end is sad.  But as with everything else in life where one door closes, another door opens and we will have pumpkins coming soon!  There is a place that we go camping in Alabama that has a wonderful tomato pie on their menu.  In fact, it is the only place that I have ever ordered tomato pie!  I know they have been recommended by Southern Living Magazine.  If you get a chance to visit there you should.   It’s in a quaint little town called Mentone.  It’s called the Wild Flower Café.  So that menu item was the inspiration for my tomato dish.  I do not have their recipe so I just adapted one of my own. I am sure that this would be much better with a made from scratch pie crust but today I used a premade on

This week in our Good Friends Good Food group we are focusing on green beans.  I searched many recipes and had my eye on a casserole, but then I decided to make salad.  I love salads that are chocked full of “stuff.”  So, I started with green beans and then added this and that.  Then more this and that.  I was extremely happy with the end result and cannot wait to eat the leftovers!  I have named this recipe “Not Your Granny’s Green Bean Salad.” My DH does not care for green beans.  He will eat them, but it is not his favorite.  After we ate and sat down to watch tv, unprompted he said this to me.  “Now you know I do not love green beans.  But....these were possibly the best green beans I have ever eaten.”   After my shock wore off, I realized a compliment from him for me was the greatest.   We had grilled steaks with this and it was a delicious meal!  Truly, I think I could have eaten a large bowl of this for my entire meal.  Can you tell I liked it?  Would make a beautiful side dish

It has been a while since I posted.  Yes.a.while.  This week I reconnected with some friends and we decided to cook together again!  Even though we are miles and miles apart, we have fun connecting.  We have named our group Good Friends Good Food .  Check out grandmaskitchentable.typepad.com and teaandscones.wordpress.com for more squash deliciousness!  If you would like to join our group, we would love to have you!  Just leave a message in the comments below. We plan to be creative and have fun with  green beans on September 25th!  Come join us! I think with the Covid virus keeping us more homebound, more of us are cooking at home.  I know I am!  We decided to do a squash recipe this week.  I had gotten some delicata squash in my vegetable co-op last week so I decided to use that.  I had never heard of this kind of squash.  Apparently, the skin is thin so its edible.  Just a good wash and you are ready to slice and dice.  I am sure you could substitute any type squash if you wa

 OK I am just making a short post today because I’ve been unable to get into this blog for at least three years.  Today for some reason lock was with me and I just hit the sign in button and it worked!    Welcome back Peggy!