Tag: creative cooking

Corn Bread Taco Bake

Budgets have been tight with the pandemic clearing and extra money vanishing. So our food budget has gotten tight. . . We have gotten creative.




Corn bread Taco Bake



I cook this in crock pot or slow cooker, but you can cook this in an oven.


Start making corn bread. . . let go for about an hour,
Then layer salsa (I use mild, but if you can handle the heat, you can get hotter.)


cook pound of beef on the stove (add taco seasoning or make up your own with paprika, black pepper, red chilli flakes, chilli powder, etc season to your liking)


I also make a rice mix (spanish, beef or other flavored)
Layer the rice and beef over the corn bread, then add cheese.


Within several hours, dinner is ready.


You can add corn, black olives, onions, peppers, tomatoes. I also put sour cream on my own bowl.

Homemade sushi

We got a sushi kit.

I read several recipes, and we watch many cooking shows.

My brother, mom, and I missed the local Asian buffets that served sushi.

I love Alaska roll. Salmon is one of my favorite fish. I also enjoy crab.

So we got a kit, I found Nori (seaweed), and we got crab, avacodo, and cream cheese.

We made a few rolls, it was messy and it really is an art. It gave me a new respect for those would make sushi.

The taste was still there. They were really good.

Thanksgiving food

This Thanksgiving I was very grateful for . . .

1. A roof over my head

2. Good family and friends

3. Kitchen to cook

4. So much awesome food.

Zero, turtle and I took over the kitchen and cooked so much.

We had so many sweet potatoes.. .we baked some as wedges and made sweet potatoes fried with cinammon glaze. We also made sweet potato skins.

We made two stuffed turkeys

We made dark forest and punkin cakes.

We had a huge spread.

  • Turkey
  • Stuffing
  • Awesome gravy
  • Mashed potatoes
  • Sweet potatoes in three different ways
  • Green bean casserole with bacon
  • Cream corn casserole with bacon
  • Baked beans
  • Cranberry sauce
  • Rolls

It was a very nice holiday.

Orange chicken.

Last night I made orange chicken legs in the crockpot. I learned it about timing and layers. I seasoned the chicken add a bit of butter and water.

We squeezed one orange over the chicken and sliced two oranges just before the last hour of cooking. That the orange peel didn’t get too bitter.

I also made sweet potatoes with it, as they also taste awesome with the orange flavor.

Chilli corn bread bake

I looked through my house to find something different for dinner.

I took a pound of hamburger,(I precooked) leftover salsa, two cans of diced tomatoes, a can of corn, and bunch of seasonings and then them into the crockpot for two hours.

Then I made corn bread mix and put it on top of the beanless chilli and cooked it for another 90 minutes. It turned out awesome.