My phone chirped – I had a text. It was coming up on five and I guessed Hubby was letting me know he was on his way home. I was right, it was Hubby. I was mistaken about the message. He was going to be late. No worries. My casserole wouldn’t take long. Planning ahead for late evenings is something I take pride in. And besides, it’s summer. There is something perfectly acceptable about eating dinner at seven in the summer. Eat at seven in the winter and you feel like it’s midnight. Why is that?
Author: Rosemarie's Kitchen
I'm a wife, mother, grandmother and avid home cook.I believe in eating healthy whenever possible, while still managing to indulge in life's pleasures.
Caribbean Yellow Rice with Peas
While this rice dish might look very much like my Island Rice with Peas, the two are very different creatures. Island Rice has golden raisins and coconut milk. Both are lacking in Caribbean Yellow Rice. This dish, while equally delicious, is a bit more subtle in flavors.
Spinach Stuffed Chicken Breast
When do you usually do your marketing? We have gotten proficient at shopping only one day a week, which is both cost effective and efficient use of time. To make this possible, I plan our meals in advance, take full stock of what we have and what we need. One of the biggest reasons we try to avoid shopping more than once a week are those “grab” items. Walk through your local market and see how they tempt you to buy things you neither truly want nor need. You only think you want chocolate cookies. You only think you need to eat them tonight with a tall glass of milk. Now notice where the milk is kept – all the way at the far end of the store. How many temptations stand between you and a gallon of milk?
Pork Chops Swimming in Wine with Garlic
Sometimes I think that Pork, any kind of pork besides the famous Ham, is often over looked. Growing up, you ate Ham twice a year, ribs in the summer and fried pork chops the rest of the time. That was it, a rather limited selection. Not any more . . .
Easy Skillet Chicken Parmesan
Good morning everyone! I was so busy working on our shopping list for the week that I forgot to post a second recipe today. Not good. Now I suppose I could have made up for the oversight with an over the top production. But I’m in a simple yet tasty sort of mood, so an easy skillet dinner is just the ticket.
Teriyaki Beef Skewers for the Pure Beef Eaters
Where’s the beef? Right here. Don’t mistake Beef Skewers for Beef Kabobs. The two are completely different creatures. Kabobs include vegetables. Skewers do not. Now that we have cleared up the confusion, let’s get down to grilling, shall we?
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Small Town Life and Buttery Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Good morning everyone! Hope you are enjoying an awesome day. It’s Saturday, and that means the start of another great adventure. Hubby, Kiddo and I live in a town of about 200,000 people. That’s fairly small by California standards. Take San Francisco with a population pushing 900,000 or LA with nearly 4 million as comparisons. Yeah, we live in a small farming community surrounded by even small farming communities. The best thing about small town life is that there is always a fair or festival or open air market somewhere. Small town USA really love to strut their stuff.
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Corn Flake Crunchy Oven Fried Chicken
So, how is your July thus far? Too early to tell? Yeah, I hear you. July is a special time of the year for us. Kiddo gets another year older every July. And we do something special together as a family every July. Last year, it was 8 days in our nation’s first National Park, Yellowstone. This year we are Oregon-Washington bound. Kiddo has always been interested in earth sciences, so we plan to spend two days exploring Mount Saint Helen. I am so excited about this trip. My sister and her husband live in eastern Oregon. We are meeting on the coast for a little sisterly R and R. I cannot tell you how excited I am!
Broccoli With An Onion-Cheese Sauce
My guys are constantly bugging me to make a cheese sauce when I cook broccoli. Making the sauce isn’t complicated, as you will see. However; I like to reserve a cheesy broccoli dish for rare occasions. While I love cheese, having your veggies swimming in sauce does lower the health benefits of eating steamed vegetables in the first place. Lord knows, cheese is a weakness for many of us.
Pineapple Boat Teriyaki Chicken with Rice
The first time I had ever seen Teriyaki Chicken served in a hollowed out pineapple boat was at a very upscale Asian Restaurant. We all did our share of oohs and aahs when the pineapples filled with Teriyaki Chicken came to the table. That spectacular meal was one of the last we enjoyed together as a family before Brother Dear lost his battle to cancer.
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Summertime Skewered Dessert Fondue
Do you ever look at pictures of food and figure out a new recipe just from the picture? I wanted something different – something light. That’s when I saw a picture of what appeared to be berries and cake on a bamboo skewer. How utterly simple!
The Triumph of the All American Steak Burger
Four years ago, as we were wandering about the grocery store, I noticed a display for Sutter Homes Wine and their Build a Better Burger contest. Hum, I’ve never entered a contest before. I’ve never been brave enough to enter a recipe contest. Me? I’m just a home cook, nothing special. Yet I really wanted to be brave. What was the worst that could happen?
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Grand Old Flags for Your 4th of July
Those of you who have been around a while know that I’m constantly planning. Constant planning requires constant tweaking, too. Right up until I walk out of the market, my plans are open for interpretation. Who knows what might catch my eye at the very last minute?
Continue reading “Grand Old Flags for Your 4th of July”It’s National Eat Your Beans Day
Once again I turned to the Nation Whatever calendar for a little inspiration. (Is that cheating? Gosh, I hope not!) Today offered three choices – National Fried Clam Day, National Chocolate Wafer Day or National Eat Your Beans Day.
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Hubby wandered into the kitchen and wanted to know what we had planned for dinner. The man drives me nuts sometimes. I print out a schedule every Saturday morning before we go to the market of the week’s planned meals and stick it on the refrigerator door right under the schedule of weekend events in our area. He manages to notice if there’s a car show nearby on any given weekend, but not what we’re having for dinner on any particular night. We all have our priorities, I suppose.
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