{Soup’s On!} Z is for Zucchini

Once the weather gets cool, all I want is to cook and eat soup. A bowl of soup with some homemade bread and butter, maybe a little salad…this is absolutely the perfect lunch. Or dinner. Or snack.  🙂  Soup just may be the perfect meal. This recipe (originally passed on to me from my sister,…

What’s New in My Kitchen Wednesday {Food Mill}

I have to admit.  The food mill (I frequently forget its name) only comes out of the cupboard this time of year for “Rosie Applesauce” but it is a must for making this applesauce and the kids LOVE to use it.  Talk about an upper arm workout.  Three kids and one Mama and we all have…

{Be Adaptable} Coleslaw in a Pinch

So it was the day after pigging out on a dinner of take-out Chinese with weekend guests and we wanted to finish off the leftovers (even though we were still not feeling so good about how it had made us feel the night before).  Unfortunately we didn’t have quite enough leftovers to feed us all…

{Back to School} I Heart the Crockpot!

I  LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Crockpot! The crockpot pictured here is from Williams- Sonoma.  A beauty isn’t it?! Schools in session! This year ALL three kiddos are at the same school on the same schedule for the very FIRST time.  I have done my duty for the past 8 ½ years and am adapting well to…

Quick Tomato Sauce

We’ve been getting a decent pile of tomatoes in our weekly CSA share, and I still can’t believe it took me this long to make the most basic tomato recipe: homemade sauce.  I used to do a sauce that was much more complicated (blanch the tomatoes, peel, simmer forever, yadda yadda), but I threw this…