Venison Shepherd's Pie
on Nov 19, 2009 in shepherds pie everyday food potatoes venison martha stewart A little break for the moment in Harvest Month. I've got photos of one HM meal, but not the recipe, and I've got the recipe for the other, but the photos aren't ready yet. So, in the meantime here is a non-harvest meal that came of my kitchen recen...

Harvest Month- Bulgur Salad
on Nov 10, 2009 in bulgur harvest month side dish everyday food Here's the second recipe I tried out for Harvest Month here at Small Time Cooks. Bulgur was the next grain I was interested in trying out, but I wasn't sure what kind of recipe I should go with. Naturally, I turned to my stand-by source, Everyday F...

Harvest Month- Greek-Style Quinoa Burgers
on Nov 3, 2009 in quinoa wholeliving grains harvest month burgers vegetarian greek martha stewart I have had very little experience in cooking with the great variety of grains available for your pantry shelves. So a few weeks ago, while thinking about the next challenge I might present to myself once my self-imposed grocery budget was lifted, I...

The Incredible Shrinking Grocery Budget- 3rd Week
on Oct 26, 2009 in weekly menu budget menu planning groceries Well, here it is- the last grocery week of the month for us. And this week we managed to keep the bill under $50 fairly easily. Even after two stores we hit total at $40.84. Although I realized I'll probably need to pick up some cat food sometime...

The Incredible Shrinking Grocery Budget- 2nd Week
on Oct 19, 2009 in weekly menu budget menu planning groceries This week, once you take into account the body wash, wrist brace, and salad & sushi we grabbed for lunch, we only spent $50.87. This week's menu is built around leftover ingredients from the previous week's meals. I will use up the rest of the tort...

The Incredible Shrinking Grocery Budget
on Oct 12, 2009 in weekly menu budget menu planning Well, well, well..... here I am. Again, taking forever to get around to posting something. And not even a recipe post at that. We are tightening our belts lately due to lots of unexpected and, to be perfectly honest a couple of unnecessary (but fu...

L'il Smoky the Cheese Ball
on Sep 28, 2009 in appetizers party cheese ball amy sedaris vegetarian martha stewart entertaining Sorry it's been so long since my last post. Josh has been out of town, I was planning our housewarming, we're about to go on vacation, yada yada yada. You know how it goes. But speaking of our housewarming I wanted to share a recipe that I made fo...

Black Bean Confetti Salsa
on Sep 13, 2009 in black beans salad smitten kitchen salsa bell peppers potluck summer Things have been very busy around these parts lately. Josh has been doing a lot of traveling on weekends and in the next two weeks we'll be having friends over to see the house for the first time and then going on vacation. New recipes have been tr...

Bell Pepper Saute
on Sep 1, 2009 in bell peppers side dish fast easy everyday food vegetarian Really it seems a bit of a cheek to post this recipe. I mean, it's hardly a recipe and hardly requires any effort. But then again, that's what makes it so great so I might as well share it, right? I was planning on making our favorite Baked Black...

Portobello and Zucchini Tacos
on Aug 24, 2009 in tacos zucchini mushrooms everyday food vegetarian As I've mentioned before, I've been clearing out some long time residents of my to-cook list in an attempt to find more non-meat meals to work into our dinner rotation. This was one more of those recipes that I kept skipping over. I think my main r...