Category: Sauces, Dressing, etc.

  • Olive Garden Italian Salad Dressing

    Olive Garden Italian Salad Dressing

    We don’t have an Olive Garden restaurant around here but I keep hearing people rave about their salads. Browsing through Pinterest I found this Olive Garden Salad Dressing and wanted to try it. I don’t normally buy the Good Seasons packets of dressing mix since I usually just mix up a very simple vinaigrette like this…

  • Raita, Tandoori-Rubbed Salmon with Ginger, Lemon and Turmeric Rice from Jamie Oliver

    Raita, Tandoori-Rubbed Salmon with Ginger, Lemon and Turmeric Rice from Jamie Oliver

    Doesn’t this look yummy? Salmon, rice, and yogurt and cucumber raita. My youngest requested I make this Salmon Tikka, salmon rubbed with tandoori paste. We had to make a special trip to the Indian store to buy the tandoori paste but it was worth it. While we were there, we also picked up some naan…

  • Buttermilk Honey Salad Dressing Recipe

    Buttermilk Honey Salad Dressing Recipe

    My kids like Hamburger Helper. I’ve rarely cooked it for dinner, but when they were younger I would use it on the rare babysitter nights and then later on the rare “on your own” nights once they were old enough to cook safely. I did play around with some hamburger helper-like mixes for a while…

  • Eggs Benedict: When Life Gives You Eggs

    Eggs Benedict: When Life Gives You Eggs

    Two of my hens are laying regularly again finally, with the third just getting over her broodiness. They’ll likely slow down for the winter but I had 18 eggs in the fridge after gathering the two new ones today! I hard-boiled up a few and decided to make Eggs Benedict for dinner. I used the…

  • Pizza and Sauce Cooking Class

    Pizza and Sauce Cooking Class

    On Saturday night I had offered to teach a few women how to make pizza. I mixed up some pizza dough early so it would be ready to roll out into pizzas a while after they got here. We started by mixing up another  smaller batch of pizza dough  and I let them each knead…