I wanted to come up with a definitive “personal” nachos recipe. After canvassing multiple people and various recipes, we considered multiple variations, but this was the winning combo for our family. Surprisingly, the hardest choice may well have been which brand and style of tortilla chips to use.
| Type of Meal Snack, Appetizer, Chicken | Genre Tex Mex | Difficulty Easy |
| Cooking Time Prep: 10-30m Cooking: 10-15m Total: 20-45m | Yield 4 servings | Rating ★★★★★ |
It’s hard to call this a “new recipe” since we’ve used it several times before and it is really just using English muffins for your pizza crust with assembly of different toppings on top, so not much of a “recipe”. But I thought I would add it here anyway. I have a small bias towards including pepperoni in every variation, but technically it is optional.… Read the rest
This was an adaptation from a ground beef recipe book that I picked up when Andrea bought the Epicure silicone steamers that are so good at cooking ground beef quickly and easily. I didn’t use a steamer for this recipe, as there are other ingredients to cook with the beef, but that was more choice than necessity.… Read the rest
This was an adaptation from a diet recipe book for slow cookers, and was a pretty easy recipe (particularly using the slow cooker, but also just the limited number of items to chop / dice / slice). And the mango chutney is really the key to the sweet taste. I wasn’t a big fan of chutney before, but it is awesome here.… Read the rest
I snagged the base for this recipe from a “Taste of Home Fall Baking – Fresh from the Oven” cookbook. My first attempt at a proper cake, part of a goal for myself.
| Type of Meal Dessert, Side, Cake | Genre Baking | Difficulty Easy to Normal |
| Cooking Time Prep: 40m Baking: 40m Cooling: 40m Total: 2h | Yield 12 servings | Rating ★★★★★ |
I snagged the base for this recipe from a “Taste of Home Fall Baking – Fresh from the Oven” cookbook. My first real attempt at a baking recipe, part of a new goal for myself.
| Type of Meal Dessert, Side, Rolls | Genre Baking | Difficulty Easy |
| Cooking Time Prep: 1h Rise: 1h + 1h Cooking: 30-35m Cooling: 10m Total: 3h, 45m | Yield 12 servings | Rating ★★★★☆ |
Andrea snagged this recipe from her Mom, and it might be a Looney-Spoons recipe originally. It’s pork tenderloin with maple syrup. Sure, there’s other stuff in it, but those are the two flavours that pop. Totally awesome.
| Type of Meal Dinner, Main, Pork | Genre General | Difficulty Easy |
| Cooking Time Prep: 10m Marinate: 1h Cooking: 40m Total: 1h, 50m | Yield 6 servings | Rating ★★★★★ |
