Sunday for the football games, I made shredded beef taco. I took a roast in the crockpot and let it cook (while I was working on my book.)
Then I pulled it apart with forks and added taco seasoning. I added cheese, salsa and sour cream.
You also add lettuce, black olives, onions etc.
My brother added jalapeñoes.
I made a mixture of a coffee cake idea with a banana bread idea.
I took a yellow cake mix adding made coffee, a package of hot cocoa mix, and several bananas. I put the mixture in the crockpot for three hours.
It smelled so good while cooking.
Then I added whipped cream. It was sweet, moist, and comforting.
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.
I made grilled cheese and tomato soup the other day. It was always a comfort food and something I remember as a kid.
I love the many combinations with grilled cheese.
There are so many combination s
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The combo we had
I added rice and bacon and golden fish crackers to my tomato soup.
Its just yummy comfort I had from my childhood.
For my brother’s birthday (turtle), I made him homemade tacos.I love a good taco bar.
Sometimes I add rice, sometimes beans.
This was turtle’s taco.
Its fun to make you’re own.
I sometimes cut the tortillas and make mini tacos.
It was a really good taco. I think everyone enjoyed it.
I love a good rice dish. . .
It can be in a pudding or in a bake.
You can make rice in an oven, stove, or microwave. There is long grain, short grain, and even in a bag, instant rice.
It is versatile: there are so many different things you can do with rice.
You can make in minutes and just add herbs and butter.
I love sushi: fish and sticky rice. . . yum.
You can add gravy or sauce to it.
Yesterday when I slow cooked the BBQ ribs that fell off the bone. I took the render fat and extra BBQ sauce and use it as part of the liquid to make the rice so it had the BBQ rib flavor. (It was so good.)
Turtle even add a ginger hot sauce to it.
You can even add rice into stews and soups.
You can add fruit and nuts with it.
The suggestions are limitless: go bold, or comfortable.
Note: I was use a fork to light stir the rice as I feel it makes it fluffier.
Turtle, Zeroman and I take advantage when we can get access to the kitchen. We had access yesterday and we made a feast.
Zeroman made . . .
I made . . .
Turtle helped with both.
We also baked. . . chocolate pudding cake and very chewy brownies.
The lasagna and the lasagna cheesy rolls.
Here is the plain and candied bacon BBQ meatloaf.
Roasted and glazed carrots
The soured beans had bacon and were sour and yet tangy. It was grandma’s recipe and my mom had asked for them, so we made them just for her.
The brownies were chewy.
The cake was soft with the creamy pudding on top. . . yum.
It was a nice way for us to celebrate Mother’s day as Turtle, Zeroman, and I got to cook for our mothers.
We had three days worth of food as we also have leftover for tomorrow as well.
I knew if I just posted “Salads” that someone would say there are so many out there. . . (from leafy to protein like chicken or tuna to potato and pasta etc.) I love many different salads.
However over the weekend we made an awesome leafy salad. . .
I had few salad mixes. . . it ice-burg lettuce, Kale, greens, spinach, shredded carrots, and red cabbage. We added tomatoes, mushrooms, green pepper, and shredded pork and shredded cheese.
We have a south-western ranch or Italian dressing.
When I go to a restaurant, I don’t mind a simple salad before my main meal. However when I am at home everything is in my leafy salads. . .
I love fresh spinach, tomatoes, cucumbers, sprouts, snap peas, black olives (sliced), shredded cheese (prefer white cheeses), sunflowers, flavored croutons, and whatever else will work. Plus I will cut up lunch meat or cube or shred chicken. My salads usually become a huge part of the meal. I even love having bacon in my salads.
Whenever I make a salad and my family is home, I usually end up making them salads too. I like to think of myself as a creative salad. . . I’m not sure if I am to master level yet. LOL
Growing up, whenever I would visit my grandparents for dinner, they could always have some kind of salad with dinner. My grandma got me into sprouts, poppyseed dressing, and adding chopped nuts in salad. I love the crunch and freshness.
I try to eat salad at least once a week.
Happy Easter! Or Happy Ham Day!
Over the weekend, we have been cooking ham and other goodies to celebrate the holiday as we have done in past traditions.
Sandwiches. . . growing up we joked because we would make our sandwiches “Bleed” as we had an egg Easter bread, beet horseradish sauce, ham and cheese.
Cvikla s Chrenom – Beet and Horseradish Relish (http://slovakamericankitchen.blogspot.com/2014/04/cvikla-s-chrenom-beet-and-horseradish.html )
Easter bread: Paska (https://dcslovaks.org/slovak-easter-traditions-paska-bread/)
Easter Cheese: Veľká noc Cirák (https://slaviccooking.com/slovak-easter-cheese-cirak/)
We kept it simple (we didn’t make Cvikla s Chrenom, Paska, or Veľká noc Cirák but do remember them as a kid.)
We made three hams (actually my friend and my brother made the hams.)
I focused on the sweet potatoes with marshmallows.
What is awesome is that with ham. . . there are so many things you can do with the leftover. . .
Note: Ham has a lot of salt, so make sure you drink a lot of water to get a lot of the salt out of your system.
This ham is addicting that I’m dealing with a stomachache from eating too much. So I am taking a nap now.
I had sliced beef pieces, mushroom, sour cream and egg noodles. So I spiced everything up and made beef stroganoff. I marinaded the beef with ground pepper and Worcestershire sauce.
(I currently cannot handle onions with my stomach, but I have seem people add onions, and pepper to it.
I’ve also seen people use hamburger with it, but I prefer beef chunks.)
However it a hit a spot and it was eaten so fast, that I forgot to grab a picture.
It is so easy, but I usually never have the left over sour cream. (We had steak tacos Sunday and fish taco Monday, so I had left over sour cream today.)
Noodles are one of my comfort foods.
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