At Home My Way

I found a great recipe for a fruit crisp.  I love crisps!  I love that they use oats instead of all white flour and also that you don't have any rolling out to do. I had quite a bit of leftover cherry pie filling from making my Ditch the Box Cheesecake  (we spoon it over each slice instead of layering the pie with it).  This recipe uses canned cherry pie filling so it worked terrific to use up the remainder of my pie filling.  I also had some frozen raspberries on hand, which I normally use for Homemade Yogurt Parfaits or breakfast smoothies.  I even tossed in a handful of strawberries I had in my fridge, all to equal the "2 cups frozen fruit" referenced in the recipe. My family has a favorite frozen pie (that you bake).  Rarely do you find a store-bought pie that tastes super special, but Aldi has a Very Berry Pie that we REALLY love!  It combines blackberries, raspberries, and cherries.  The combination of berries an...

Occasionally I see recipes for making homemade stovetop type stuffing.  I never expect it to taste as good as that wonderful stuffing you get in the box but I figured it was worth a shot. Yesterday I made one of the fastest crockpot meals to ever throw in before you walk out the door in the morning, Crockpot Chicken & Biscuits .  Of course, any time I have anything like poultry with gravy, I want stuffing (and cranberry sauce).  I love homemade stuffing but sometimes I crave the kind that comes in a box.  Something about the spiciness of it is just over the top for me!  Never one to run to the store after work, I grabbed my computer and googled "homemade stovetop recipes".  It didn't sound too hard.  In fact, the lady that blogged the recipe mentioned that it took her only about 15 minutes longer to make than the box kind.  My husband was mowing the yard so I had 15 minutes.  I also have a freezer full of stale brea...

We LOVE lasagna at my house.  I normally make a big pan of it, after MAKING homemade sauce, boiling noodles, and placing ALL OF THAT in a big baking dish.  It's a lot of work but normally we all think that it was worth all of old Mom's work because we all love it (in spite of all of that work and dirty dishes) and we eagerly eat up all of the leftovers. Since I have been on a pinning frenzy lately on Pinterest, I found this terrific idea for Skillet Lasagna.  Boing!  Why hadn't I thought of that?  It only makes sense that you can cook lasagna all in one skillet just like you do when you make  Homemade Cheeseburger Helper .  My family likes a pretty stripped down version of lasagna.  They want meat sauce, pasta, and mozzerella.  That's it. I took the recipe that I originally pinned and tailored it just a little bit for my own family. I found the original recipe for Skillet Lasagna at Cooking with Libby .  Lib...

The other day I pinned a terrific little find, a recipe for  Homemade Angel Food Cake Loaf .  I was so excited about this recipe!  I often gaze lovingly at those little loaves of angel food cake when I'm grocery shopping but the "cheap" in me just cannot fork out over $3 a pop for those little babies. My husband's aunt used to make homemade angel food cake.  I have her recipe.  It seems deliciously exotic and a recipe only reserved for the professionals.  I have an angel food cake pan.  You know.. one of those tube pans with the legs that shoot out (because an angel food cake cools upside down in its pan, hovering in the air so that it doesn't loose is fluffiness.  Whew!  All of that seemed complicated to me. In fact, it was really one of those bucket list recipes that I was going to try, SOME DAY... Well, fast forward to today (yesterday actually) when I read the recipe at a blog called Cooke's Frontier .  It didn...

This Sunday was a pretty relaxed kind of day.  A Sunday Pot Roast kind of day..  Our day started with lots of clouds and cool temperatures.  Our weather people had predicted sun and 70's and I was a little depressed to discovered more clouds and cool temps for all of the morning and into the afternoon.  Thankfully, it warmed up and the sun came out by about 2PM.  Hurray!  I needed some sunshine! This week my menu plan will consist of: Breakfasts :   Homemade Yogurt Parfaits     Blueberry muffins using the recipe here with blueberries instead of chocolate chips     Homemade Bread Machine Bagels   Lunches :     Gator Eyes   Sandwiches/PB&J   Leftover sandwiches w/ Sunday Pot Roast   Suppers :   Skillet Lasagna (new to me) Burgers with Baked Cheesy Fries Crockpot Chicken Parmesan (new to me) Breakfast for supper (ham & Perfect ...

I have already posted this recipe but it is so good!  Since I made a couple of pans of Schoolhouse Rolls for a potluck luncheon this morning for work, and I got a good picture, I am reposting this delicious recipe.  I never know what to make for those things and one of the girls at work requested hot rolls since she knows I love to bake bread. Hot rolls make a perfect potluck dish.  They are frugal, use mostly pantry ingredients, but are much appreciated by folks who don't have someone at home making homemade rolls. I made the dough in the bread machine using this recipe: SCHOOLHOUSE DINNER ROLLS (Bread Machine instructions) 1 1/3 cup very warm water (hot but no hurt) 1 packet of yeast (or 2 teaspoons) 1/4 cup white sugar Instructions:   Measure the water in a 2- cup measuring cup (which will allow for adding additional ingredients without dirtying more dishes), add the sugar and yeast. Mix well/gently and s...

Mondays.  Ugh.... If it's not enough to have to go BACK to work and leave the comfort of home, you have to PLAN stuff, like breakfast, lunch, and supper.  What to have? Usually on Sundays I spend some time brainstorming what "sounds good" for meals for the next week.  Definitely having my blog helps because I can use the key words at the right of my blog to sort some easy ideas for things we have liked in the past. I try to take my lunch every day.  I can probably count on one hand the amount of times I have bought lunch since I started at my new job a year ago.  In fact, the girls at work sometimes laugh at the stuff I bring.   Some of my old standby lunches are: corndog muffins - (oooh baby, I loves those!)       homemade frozen burritos (so quick - much better made at home)     Sometimes I'm so LAZY and all I do is take two pieces of this bread that I keep sliced in my freezer.  I t...