Category: Season

  • Catalina Apricot Chicken

    Catalina Apricot Chicken

    I was looking for a way to bake some bone-in chicken last night and wanted something other than my usuals so went thumbing through a few “community fundraiser” cookbooks. I had picked up half a dozen of them at the last library book sale for about 25 cents each. Eventually I’ll donate most of the…

  • Yellow Squash with Pepperoni

    Yellow Squash with Pepperoni

    I was looking for a side dish that would get a few vegetables in with our pepperoncini beef sandwiches tonight. We’ve had asparagus, spinach, and carrots this week so I wanted something of a different color. I settled on some yellow squash from Recipes from a Kitchen Garden, although I didn’t have any fresh basil…

  • Corn and Potato Chowder, BBQ Beef Sandwiches

    Corn and Potato Chowder, BBQ Beef Sandwiches

    I had a boring cooking week, as I mentioned before. Then we ordered a pizza on Friday night and I was out to a friend’s last night. Tonight I needed to use up some of the leftover London Broil I fixed Thursday night. In fact, I should probably freeze the rest of it as it’s…

  • Baked Apples

    Baked Apples

    I remember my mom making these in the winter for dessert. They would bake while we ate dinner and you could smell the aroma as it filled the house.

  • Cinnamon Oranges

    Cinnamon Oranges

    I have an orange tree, totally full of delicious oranges right now, so we eat them several times a day. We juice them. We cut them in half and freeze for a treat later (eat them still frozen with a spoon). We make candied orange peels. We add them to fruit smoothies. We eat them…