No matter how you cook them, I think potatoes are some of my favorite foods. However, by far my favorite way to eat potatoes has to be in the form of fries. It's faster than making a baked potato, but much healthier than pan frying or deep frying. Also, it's delicious!! This recipe I made after realizing that I had far too many red potatoes and they needed to be used before they started going bad. The store had a sale on them, so I purchased a ten pound bag a while back. Fortunately, these ... [ Read More ]
Spicy Buffalo Chicken Dip Recipe
I'm a sucker for hot dishes during the winter, anything from chili, to soup, to delicious and warm dips. Plus, all of those things can usually be made in a crock pot, which makes prep time minimal and the whole process pretty simple. With that being said, with winter in full swing here, I've been on a bit of a dip kick. While I have been experimenting with different dips more and more, my personal favorite remains buffalo chicken dip, so I thought I would share the recipe! Buffalo Chicken ... [ Read More ]
5 Simple Salad Dressing Recipes
There is no reason to ever spend your hard earned dollars on store-bought salad dressing ever again. These recipes are so simple that it won't take much longer than opening the bottle of dressing to make, and you'll be able to memorize the recipes after giving it a couple go's. Aside from the issue of price, salad dressings are usually pumped full of chemical additives, sugar, and salt. By making your own you can really monitor what ingredients you are putting into your body, and adjust the ... [ Read More ]
Parmesan Feta Baked Tomatoes
There are literally hundreds of different ways to eat tomatoes, which is fortunate because tomatoes are one of those crops that either you have hardly any or you're overflowing. If you're looking for a quick and easy way to spice up your tomatoes for a quick mildly-italian side dish then look no further! These melted parmesan feta tomatoes are absolutely delicious and can be made with just about any kind of tomatoes. I used roma, because that's what I had, but it would be excellent with ... [ Read More ]
Sweet Waldorf Salad Recipe
I have always been a huge fan of fruit salads, and my mom always made some of the yummiest waldorf salads. Unlike most waldorf salads, it doesn't include mayonnaise (because my mother hates mayo) and is actually a little on the sweet side, making it a really light treat for a hot summer day. It goes fantastic with BBQ chicken and makes a great side dish to bring to pot lucks as it is really easy to make. Anyway, without any more ado, here's the recipe: Sweet Waldorf Salad Recipe ... [ Read More ]
Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad
Hey everyone! Today I wanted to share one of my absolute favorite pasta salad recipes (which, once again, I forgot to take a photo of. It disappeared before I even thought about it! That's how you know it's delicious). This awesome salad is served cold and is perfect for a pot luck, a BBQ or just for a really hot day when you don't want to turn the oven on and heat up the whole house. Everything can be made on the stovetop ahead of time, and in fact is better made a little bit in ... [ Read More ]
Cheesy Bites Recipe
It's awfully cold here and that always makes me want to snuggle under a blanket and eat lots of soup! Growing up, the favorite soup at our house was always tomato soup, and my mother used to make these cheesy bites occasionally as a treat instead of boring grilled cheese. They taste kind of like extra cheesy biscuits, but they're bite-sized! ... [ Read More ]
7 Amazing Ways to Use up All of those Garden Fresh Tomatoes
I may not have a garden this year, but I remember all too well the abundance of tomatoes and the yearly scramble to decide what to do with them all. It seemed some years like I would never get through the endless pile of tomatoes that littered my table, the counters, and every other available surface. In truth it is not the abundance of tomatoes that is so much the problem, I knew how to can them all into a variety of tasty tomato goodness that would last us through the winter. The ... [ Read More ]
Basic Stuffing
Basic Stuffing Print Prep time 24 hours Cook time 3 hours Total time 27 hours Author: Prairiemaid Ingredients 1½ cups bread cubes ¼ cup celery chopped ½ cup onions chopped ¼ cup butter ⅛ tsp poultry seasoning ¼ tsp salt ¼ tsp sage 1 tsp parsley Instructions Trim bread, removing crust. Cube. Soak in cold water overnight in an amount enough to cover. Drain. Saute celery and oinions in butter until lightly ... [ Read More ]