Today is Improv Cooking Challenge day! The two ingredients for this month are potatoes and cheese!!! My first thought?~Where to start? Those two ingredients open up an avalanche of ideas!! I had both of these ingredients on hand, so I started pulling groceries from the fridge, looking at what I had, and I ended up … Read more

This is my first post for the Holiday Recipe Club, so I am excited and very curious to see what everyone else is making. Every month we are given ingredients to use. We can use one of them, two of them, or all of them. This month the ingredients were pistachios, potatoes, and beer! I … Read more

Today at Club Baked, as we work our way through the cookbook, Baked Explorations, we are making Sawdust Pie. That’s a great name, isn’t it? The pie is similar to a pecan pie, but with a twist. This book we have been using, written by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito, constantly surprises me, as all … Read more

This soup is the perfect soup for your Halloween buffet. It is spooky, has green stuff, and is covered in goo!  It will also keep you warm when you are trick or treating. Creature from the Deep, Soup 5 tablespoons Butter, divided 1 small Onion 1 stalk Celery 3 cups Chicken Base   8 cups Broccoli … Read more

This week at The Freshman Cook, we are continuing with our Halloween party food ideas. Here is our menu for more Halloween fun!  Menu and Grocery List Appetizer~Cheese Pumpkins   8 tablespoons Smoked Cheddar Cold Pack Cheese 2 teaspoons finely chopped Peanuts Pretzel Sticks(1 for each pumpkin) Fresh Parsley Crackers Side Dish~Bloody Bones 1 loaf Rhodes … Read more

Our side dish this week is skillet fried potatoes. Potatoes are such a versatile dish, aren’t they? I mean you can change up a potato dish about 100 different ways! They go with just about everything, and pretty much everyone loves them! Like these potatoes we made this week. They could definitely be served with … Read more

The entree for this week is a pan fried T-bone steak. The reason the T-bone is a great steak is simple. The T-bone contains both a piece of filet mignon and a strip steak!  It is such a great piece to buy if you are splitting the steak. In my case, my husband loves the … Read more

It’s Secret Recipe Club time, and today I have made a recipe from the website, The Boys Made Me Do It! This is a wonderful blog written by Cara. Cara is the mother of 3!!! boys, hence the name. God bless you Cara! It must be fun, and you must be so busy, having 3 … Read more

This week we will be making a bunch of recipes that will help me clean out my fridge. I sometimes forget what is in there, and food gets ignored and forgotten. Like most cooks, I hate to throw food out! Menu: Appetizer~Beef and Bean Tostados Salad~Tomato, Onion and Mozzarella Pearls Entree~Pan Fried T-Bone Steak Side … Read more