Month: September 2024

There are so many ways to make meatballs.  You can use any kind of ground meat.  Sauce recipes are abundant.  I chose what was called Dijon Gravy.  Really it was just a Salisbury steak sauce plain and simple. The recipe said to cook the meatballs in a pan on the stove.  I chose to cook…

We’ve been having chicken or beef every meal for what seems like weeks.  Boring.  I decided to do shrimp for a change.  Michelle had a bag of shrimp in the freezer for me to use.  I sauteed an onion, red pepper, broccoli, and 3 cloves on garlic in a sauce pan.  Took it out of…

In the past I’ve made up my own Berbere spice mix but this time I used a premade Berbere spice mix.  I liked my own better.  I was not very happy with it this time.  Next time I want to do a curry I’ll just use my favorite curry powder. The Roasted Cauliflower Date Salad…

I layered store bought hummus, yogurt sauce, chopped fine red onion, sliced cucumber, fetta cheese, sliced cherry tomatoes, and Kalamata olives.  There were spices mixed in there too like garlic and dill, salt and pepper.  Served it with toasted pita bread. For the beef I sauteed the ground beef with onion, then added some cinnamon…

Michelle purchased 2 packages of chicken drumsticks before she left to take Sasha to California.  When I suggested to Apollo that I cook them for dinner when his Mom and Dad got home on Sunday evening we got excited.  He said he had a recipe for a marinade that he really liked.  It was olive…

It’s just Apollo and I this week.  Michelle and John have taken Sasha to California.  My first thought when I found out that I would be caring for Apollo for a week by myself was “oh no!  What can I feed him?”  Just goes to show how feeding the family and caring for the family…

It was just Michelle, John, and I for dinner this evening.  Michelle has 3 basil plants growing in her garden.  I wanted to cook something using the fresh basil and found a recipe for Thai Basil Chicken Meatballs.  The zucchini fries were a request from Michelle.  They had several zucchinis in their fridge they wanted…

Drove to Philadelphia Airport this morning to pick up Sasha, just getting back from her orientation week at UC Berkeley.  Then, dropped her off at home and drove up to Newark, NJ to pick up Michelle and John getting back from their vacation in Seattle, and Apollo getting home from his week at camp in…