Confession: I have never made beef stroganoff without using canned soup.
Every time I've made it, I prepared it with canned cream of mushroom soup. I'm not embarrassed, although I am sure there are some who think I should be, but it was a quick and easy meal that my family (particularly the guys in the house) enjoyed. I never really considered that I didn't need a can of soup.
But, guess what? I don't.
In the iPhone app "How To Cook Everything", there is a recipe called Real Beef
Grilled Spicy Shrimp Recipe
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Like many others, our family has a barbecue on Memorial Day. Usually we do burgers or chicken. Or maybe some steaks. But this year we decided to grill shrimp - healthy, light and easy.
We've grilled shrimp before, but it was not memorable at all. I'm not even sure what we put on it. Probably some packet of
Mark Bittman Week – Menu for Week of May 31
It is with great pleasure that I announce my menu plan for this week is based ENTIRELY on Mark Bittman's app called "How To Cook Everything". How cool is that? You might recall when I recently shared my top 5 cooking apps. It was while I was writing that post that it dawned on me that I should do a menu plan with only dishes I found in his plan - so here I am!
Want to know something even cooler? I get to share my app happiness with all of you!
I have 5 copies of Mark's best selling app to
My Piece Montée – Croquembouche (Daring Bakers Challenge)
Someday, I'll get a tattoo.
But for now, I will make a croquembouche.
Last month I learned about an online cooking group called The Daring Kitchen. Within The Daring Kitchen is two groups: "The Daring Bakers" and "The Daring Cooks".
The idea is that each group is given one challenge per month - a recipe that one of the members chooses. All members get the same recipe and you must follow the directions exactly.
The entire concept of The Daring Kitchen fits along well with my own
Coconutty Chocolate Chip Cookies
iPhone Recipe & Cooking Apps (My Top 5 Favorites)
I'm totally attached to my iPhone. I use it for just about everything: checking email, text messaging, taking daily photos, checking the weather, tracking calories, catching up on blogs -- and so much more. Sometimes even talking on the phone.
While these are all frequent activities for me, they aren't necessarily my favorite way of using my iPhone. My favorite? iTunes cooking and recipe apps!
I haven't bought all the cooking app's out there and I probably won't. There are a few I don't
BBQ Chicken Quesadillas – Easy Family Recipe
Last night we had a repeat of a dinner that I came up with several months ago. After the summer had ended last year, we had a pretty good amount of bottled barbecue sauce in our pantry. You know how it goes on sale a lot during the summer? Well, we went a bit overboard.
I started brainstorming for meal ideas that we could use all this barbecue sauce in - and that's when BBQ Chicken Quesadillas were created. While we eat them for dinner, they are great for lunch too. They would also be the
My Mother’s Day 2010 Recap
Remember last week when I talked about needing a good, new wooden spoon? Well, to my surprise, that's exactly what my husband gave me for Mother's Day. David gave it to me in a gift bag, but when he handed it to me, he seemed a bit embarrassed. I asked him what was wrong and he said that he hopes I "like it" and that he didn't buy me "one of the most expensive ones".
I kissed him and told him thank you...and told him how much I loved my new spoons. That I didn't need an expensive set - that
My Top 10 Favorite Snacks (as of today, I’m sure it will change again)
One of the key things I've had to realize about myself when it comes to losing weight is that I just can't leave the house hungry. When I am hungry, all common sense leaves me and I rationalize in my mind why stopping off at McDonald's isn't such a big deal.
While I do love cooking, I tend to want fairly simple and easy meals and snacks earlier in the day. Dinner is the main meal in our home (which is why you'll see I plan for dinner and not the other meals) and that's when I (many times) do
