Category: Easy Recipes

  • Bread Pudding

    Bread Pudding

    I have been having fun watching StruggleMeals on YouTube. Tons of great ideas for cooking cheaply, using stuff many people might throw away, prepping, etc. One episode he made a bread pudding with stale bread. I love rice pudding and tapioca pudding so thought I’d give this a try. Any custardy thing gets my vote!…

  • Wow. It’s been a few years!

    Wow. It’s been a few years!

    Hey, whomever is still out there reading. I’m going to start to post again I think. It’s been a few years, to say the least. Life has changed. My “girls” are both women, both married, one with a baby. One has moved away, one is still close. We all still talk about food and share…

  • Oven-Roasted Chicken Tikka from Made in India

    Oven-Roasted Chicken Tikka from Made in India

    For the first time in quite a while I went to the farmer’s market on Saturday morning. I walked over to my daughter’s and her fiance’s apartment and then we walked to the market together. I couldn’t resist the gorgeous eggplants and I loved that they were smaller since I’m usually cooking for just 1…

  • Nigella Lawson’s Blondies

    Nigella Lawson’s Blondies

    Marlo is off camping for a bit and I wanted to send him off with a treat. I had used some condensed milk to make these carnitas but had most of the can left over. I found Nigella Lawson’s Blondies in her cookbook Nigella Kitchen. Oh my are they good! I wouldn’t call these “blondies”…

  • Sarah’s Apple Crisp with Oatmeal Topping

    Sarah’s Apple Crisp with Oatmeal Topping

    My daughter Sarah keeps making this old recipe for apple crisp that does not have any oats in the topping so I’m posting this for her, as I don’t seem to have put our other recipe up here yet. This comes from a great old cookbook, More is Less by Doris Longacre. People from all…