At Home My Way

One of my favorite blogs mentioned a recipe that I posted in her "comments" section of a post about zucchini fritters.  I figured I should at least post this on here so it would be easier to find this recipe, that is... until she posts it on her blog because SHE IS GOING TO LOVE IT and you will too!  My 23 year old daughter could not tell she was eating zucchini and she is my pickiest eater! Kim's blog is here:  http://jabezfarm.blogspot.com/ If you like apple cobbler / pie, you're gonna love this: Any naysayers should see this discussion board where I posted the recipe.  They all went "hog wild"  LOL! http://forums.organicgardening.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/5541078301/m/5651069627?r=5651069627#5651069627 ZUCCHINI COBBLER recipe AT HOME MY WAY Ingredients: 8 cups chopped seeded peeled zucchini (about 3 pounds) (peel the zucchini first, then slice lengthwise, scoop out the seeds and slice the zucchini.  These little slices, when seeded and peeled ...

This is a salad that my mother-in-law regularly makes at her house.  I was probably married to her son 10 years before I got brave enough to try it LOL.  Something about pineapple, cheese, and lettuce just DID NOT sound good to me.  Boy was I WRONG!  This is now my favorite salad and she makes it for me often.  I'm wishing I hadn't waited all those years to try it!  I wasted some important pineapple salad eating in those 10 years!  Whenever we have spaghetti or lasagna, I always have to have this salad!  Also goes terrific with ham dinners LOL!  This combination may sound a little strange, but trust me when I tell you, it is delicious!  Also, I think this is a great recipe for cooking from the pantry.  Give it a try! "Pineapple Lettuce" (This is what we call it!) Ingredients for the salad : 1 head rinsed, drained, and chopped lettuce 1 can chunk pineapple 1 ½ cups grated cheddar cheese Dressing : ½ cup ma...

We have a friend who makes kettle corn at craft shows, festivals, and community gatherings.  We LOVE when he shares a few extra leftover bags of this delicious stuff with us!   Who can get enough of that sweet and salty snack?  Its addictive, for sure!  I was rummaging around in my recipes the other day and found a recipe for making small amounts of kettle corn in your microwave using a lunch sack.  It sounded TOO easy and I had to give it a try!  It works great and I will definitely be making it a lot!  Whether or not you are adding the sugar for kettle corn as I did here - or just popping as regular popcorn in a paper bag in your microwave, NOT USING commercial microwave popcorn HAS to be a good thing!  Seems like I read somewhere something in the bags of commercial microwave popcorn is terrible for you!  But,whether or not that is true, I think making microwave popcorn using recycled lunch sacks (I used recycled fast...

Do you want to make the best, easiest homemade dill pickles in the world?   I found a recipe for dill pickles that tastes JUST LIKE Claussen refrigerator pickles.  Those are the best anyway, right?  That crunch, the dill and the garlic... and oh yea , the crunch!  This recipe is super easy because you  don't have to process these pickles which means there is no canning needed.   You just fill a gallon jar (we use an old pickle jar) with fresh cucumbers and dill heads, and then pour over the cooled liquids/seasonings.   Let it sit on the counter for three days, and then refrigerate.  After that, the pickle eating begins. They are supposed to keep for one year like that in the fridge, without canning.  (We let them sit for the 3 days, then refrigerated them overnight before opening the jar for the much anticipated first taste. Did they taste like Claussen?  YOU BET YOUR PRETTY PICKLE THEY DID!  We were all SO ex...

This is the very best pasta salad EVER!  It is not made with mayo so it can stand the heat better than other dishes you might take to a BBQ or picnic.  I get the most requests for this recipe!  I posted the recipe for this dish here , but wanted to add these pictures because it is so beautiful.  Sweet & Sour Pasta Salad (a/k/a Peggy Jean-ish Pasta Salad) I mix up the dressing in a quart canning jar and heat to boiling in the microwave, but you can heat it on the stove if you like.   This recipe will be a great one to include all of those fresh garden vegetables coming in hot and heavy now... (tomatoes, red onion, cukes & bell pepper)  

I'm getting into this kind of late, but I really like to post what we've eaten for the month so that I have a record for next July.  Helps to not forget the stuff that worked and the stuff that didn't. July, 2011 Suppers BBQ at niece's house - we smoked pork loins, smoked chicken, and briskit to take out to their house (they bought - we just did the smokin!) Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans (Rebecca cooked dinner for us.) Lasagna, and garlic bread Hamburger Soup , HM biscuits (Rachel made dinner) BBQ chicken & hamburgers on the grill, baked potatoes, quarters of cabbage in foil packets on the grill (from Miss Sharon at the Farmer's Market) and 5-minute a day hoecakes made in the skillet with a little butter -YUM, YUM & YUM! Tacos / Taco salads  - make your own BBQ brats (at 4th of July BBQ) - I took Sweet & Sour Pasta Salad Spaghetti (always lots of spaghetti!  Sometimes once a week LOL!) Breakfast for Supper (gravy made...

Missouri is notorious for extreme weather.  We can have REALLY, REALLY cold weather which included a history-making blizzard this past winter, to super, duper HOT weather (once I worked at school and in one of the classrooms it was 107 at 10AM).  But, with those extremes comes some nice breaks in the weather and we had a few cool days around the 4th of July.  On Thursday, my younger daughter used her personalized recipe book (which I made for her using Shutterfly) to make supper.  She made one of her (and her sister's) favorites, Hamburger Soup.  It has hamburger, garlic, oregano, bay leaves, tomato sauce (of course), pasta, and veges.  Its kind of like spaghetti meets vegetable soup!  Its their favorite and we snarfed it down last night!  I modified this recipe just a tad from a delicious soup recipe that my former boss makes.  He is an attorney and also is a FABULOUS cook. I had never had vegetable soup with ga...