Rugelah Style Pastries

It's Friday and I told the maid to take the day off...actually I don't have a maid. I am the maid and I did not take the day off. Ho...

Inside, Outside Omelets

Sounds a little crazy, huh? This is what happens late at night when I can't sleep. My brain is very active and I sit or lay awake and th...

Italian Portobello Mushroom Caps

In Italian, Portobello means "little hat".  I don't know why, but that just brings a smile to my face! During the summer I mad...

Cream of Chicken Soup

This photograph was taken before I had my digital camera and I took it with a flip phone, so I apologize that it is so out of focus! I think...

Potatoes Au Gratin

The very best way to prepare the ingredients for this dish is a food processor that has a thin slicing blade and a blade for grating the che...

Tandoori Chicken with Curried Rice

Tandoori chicken is generally made by marinating the chicken in plain yogurt and spices and cooked in a clay oven or vessel called a "t...

Eggplant, Tomato and Basil

This dish is a play on Eggplant Caponata, cooking on a budget style. Instead of a run back out to the grocery store, I used what I had on ha...

Oriental Pot Stickers

For the longest time I have wanted to make some sort of pot sticker using some traditional flavors of the orient with ingredients I like. It...

Baked Eggs

Baked Eggs - Brunch Is Calling This is a snazzy way to brighten up a Sunday morning breakfast or something slightly different to put on your...

Portobello Pizzas

In anticipation of our garden I was trying to come up with new ways to use fresh garden tomatoes this summer. I am calling them "Portob...

Potatoes Lyonnaise With Cheese

These ingredients were in my pantry and I was pondering what to do with them for a nice side dish for dinner. Let's go French and make u...

Shrimp Scampi

Fresh shrimp is not easy to come by. In fact, through research I found out that quite a few higher end restaurants use frozen shrimp. Due to...

Caramelized Pineapple Dessert

We had a sale of $2.99 on pineapples this week at our local grocery store and I could just not pass it up! Sometimes they are $4.99 each and...

Baked Stuffed Scallops

One of my daughter's favorite dishes she would request as a special birthday dinner is my husband's recipe for baked stuffed scall...

Chicken Pasta and Peas

In my kitchen I am the left over queen. And with a tight food budget some nights it becomes all about using up what you have available. I kn...

Grandma Haxton's Coffee Cake

This particular recipe was one of my favorite cakes growing up. It wasn't often that we visited Grandma Haxton (my Dad's mother), bu...

Meatloaf

Meatloaf is one of those comfort foods that most everyone can relate a food memory to. It is a staple in just about every diner in America...

Ham and Cannellini Bean Soup

This is an excellent way to use left over ham - I call these dishes makeover meals. Using left over baked ham from a dinner, I decided to cr...

Fried Shrimp With Homemade Tartar Sauce

You may think that you can't purchase shrimp while on a tight budget., however you can.  We all know that fresh is better than frozen - ...

Crispy Chicken Under a Brick

I originally posted this recipe back in 2012. Somehow I hadn't made it again until last night. So I took fresh photographs and made the ...