Everyday Food for Busy People
These may be the best carrots I’ve ever eaten. They were perfectly cooked in the slow cooker and the butter and honey glaze made them taste scrumptious.
I love the idea of these as a Thanksgiving side dish. They can be cleaned and cut the day before. Then it’s just a matter of popping them in the slow cooker and turning it on.
I made 1 pound of carrots and it fed 5-6 people. It would be easy to double or even triple the amount.
Here’s what you’ll need: [Read more...]
We like to snack and graze in our house. Apples and peanut butter are a favorite. The other day I decided to spice it up a little bit.
Put some peanut butter in a bowl.
Add a squirt of honey and a shake of cinnamon.
Microwave for a few seconds, till it gets warm and a little melty.
Stir it up.
Dip apples or anything else you like.
If you’ve got a little one who likes to cook in an Easy Bake Oven, this would work great under a light bulb! It’s also an easy “recipe” to teach kids to make themselves.
Do your kids like to cook?
Please excuse the charred spots. I’m not an expert griller. These still tasted great though.
A few weeks ago, I shared on Facebook that I had totally ruined Jim’s birthday dinner of grilled pork chops. That time I set the whole grill on fire. Flames were shooting from the grill, black smoke billowed into the yard and children were screaming. We ended up with pizza for dinner.
I did better this time though. The honey mustard is easy to stir together and gave the meat a nice flavor. You could do the same thing with chicken instead.
Here’s what you’ll need:
This recipe was a bit of an experiment. I wanted something that was sweet, yet spicy. Thus, the recipe name. However, the recipe both succeeded and failed.
The successes: Easy, moist chicken legs that browned up nicely in the oven. They did have a slightly sweet flavor.
The fail: There was no hint of spiciness.
I don’t have a picture of the finished Honey Pork Chops, but they were a hit. The recipe is a simple marinade that you freeze the chops in, then you can grill or bake or cook them in a slow cooker. Easy and good. [Read more...]
I printed this recipe from Meals for You a long time ago. I altered it a little bit. Stir-fry is always a hit with my kids, even if it has celery in it (not a favorite of any of them). The ingredient list is simple and I almost always have all the ingredients, with the exception of cashews. They are worth adding to the recipe though. Yum! [Read more...]
I love a good crockpot recipe. This one is adapted from a cookbook called 365 Ways to Cook Chicken. It was originally done in the oven, but the crockpot is often more convenient. By changing just one ingredient I was able to turn it into a crockpot recipe. (Check out 6 Tips to Convert Recipes for Use in the Crockpot.) Now it only has 3 ingredients, plus salt and pepper and prep time is less than 5 minutes. How can you beat that?
Need to satisfy an extra big snack craving? This is your recipe. It makes a bunch. And I warn you – if you start munching it, you won’t be able to stop. I adapted the recipe from an old Taste of Home magazine. The original called for Crispix Cereal, which I couldn’t find. Do they even make that anymore? I also changed a few other things.
A few weeks ago, a friend brought this popcorn to our small group. She left some for us to munch after the group was over. I hadn’t tasted it, thinking it was just regular popcorn but then my son said something about how good the caramel corn tasted. Caramel corn? I wasted no time digging in once I realized it was a sweet treat.
The kernels were lightly coated and not real sticky like other caramel corn I’ve tried. It almost tastes like kettle corn.
I’ve made the recipe twice, altering it slightly each time. Here’s what you’ll need:
The original recipe calls for:
10 cups popcorn – I think that 12 or more is better, just a big popper full. When I used 10 cups, the kernels were too heavily coated.
1/2 cup honey
1 Tbs. molasses (My friend used corn syrup. I tried that once too and I liked it better that way. The molasses made it stickier.)
1/2 stick butter
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. salt
Boil everything but the popcorn in a saucepan. Pour over the popcorn and stir to coat. Put it out on a rimmed baking sheet (2 if you have them, because it’s a lot of popcorn) and bake at 300 degrees to crisp it. Stir it every few minutes, baking for about 10-15 min. total. Watch it so it doesn’t burn. Cool completely, or at least until you won’t burn your fingers and tongue.
I had two huge hams in my freezer from my nephew’s 4-H project. I decided Thanksgiving Day was a great time to try out baking one of them. Just as I was about to put it in the oven, I decided it needed a honey glaze so I make this one up on the spot!
I used:
Apple juice (I think Apple Cider would be great, but we had just drank all of ours)
Honey
Corn syrup (if you have enough honey you could skip this)
Brown sugar
1/2 stick of butter
nutmeg
I’d like to be able to tell you the exact measurements I used, but I can’t. I melted the butter in the measuring cup and then just started adding in the other ingredients. I think I used about 1/2 cup of apple juice, 1/3-1/2 cup honey, a big squirt of corn syrup, several big spoons of brown sugar, a shake of nutmeg. I also stuck a few cloves in the ham just because I had some.
You can see I ended up with about 1 1/2 cups of glaze. I don’t think you could really mess this up. Use the sweet, fruity ingredients you have in your kitchen. There was plenty of liquid after the ham cooked. I covered the ham tightly with foil to bake it. It tasted delish!
As I’m typing this, I’m thinking it would be great poured over the top of cut-up sweet potatoes and baked. Yum!
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