Thursday, May 28, 2020

Chili Corn Chip Pie

Yup, this is about as inspired in cooking I am right now.  It was hot today and I had roma tomatoes.  I made homemade pico de gallo with them which is great in warm weather.  Then I thought about what to use it for.  I have always wanted to make this, though it was going to be served in a "Fritos" bag.  This is the bowl version, therefore called a "pie".  This is what I came up with:

Monday, May 25, 2020

Cinnamon Raisin Bread

I was looking at Costco blog and they were reviewing cinnamon raisin bread.  After looking at the ingredients (I buy it for my son), I was dismayed.  I thought about making it from scratch.  I found a recipe and gave it a try.  I didn't tweak any ingredients as it's baking and thought I should try it as is.  I did add more raisins though.  I was happy for my stand mixer today.  I used:

Saturday, May 23, 2020

Melting Potatoes

I saw these on food t.v. and decided it was what's for dinner tonight, with burgers.  I didn't have enough yellow potatoes so thought we'd try russet too, to see which were better.  What I used:

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Roasted Yam Burritos

Happy Cinco de Mayo 🌮.  I'm trying to stay positive in the pandemic, but honestly I'm not right now.  I'm glum and depressed, not going to lie.  Anyway, I decided to try and make something to celebrate the day, mostly just trying to occupy my mind for a short while giving it something to focus on.  I totally stole the idea from my favorite food blogger, so I thank her for the inspiration.  My burrito is not traditional and has no rice either, it's just what I put together.  I love, love, love pico de gallo so that is always the star of the show for me.  What I used for two: