Hits Homemade turkey sausage patties based on Caveman Food’s breakfast sausage recipe. I used two pounds of ground turkey–one pound turkey breast and the other “lean ground turkey” that looked like it had dark meat mixed in. I was skeptical about how many spices were added but it was really delicious. I will be making [...]
Archive for August, 2010
9 Aug
Mom, I’m Hungry
Are you really? C’mon. You’re not really hungry. Or so pediatrician Meg Meeker suggests: [We] can determine whether or not our kids are really hungry. All kids get the sensation they are hungry all day long, so take a hard look at your child’s weight.[Via Motherlode] She says we are “illiterate when it comes to [...]
6 Aug
Slow Cooker Beef and Peppers
I adapted this from a recipe I found at Low Carb Friends. “London Broil” (actual cut: top round) was on sale at King Soopers so I got a nice piece of meat for just $6.50 and needed something to do with it. Top round is pretty tough so slow cooking was a good bet. I [...]
4 Aug
Five-Ingredient Tuna Muffins
I started with Linda Sue’s tuna muffin recipe and adjusted it for my family. I can’t digest onions unless they’ve been well-cooked (incorporated raw into a muffin doesn’t count), so I left them out. I was concerned the kids wouldn’t like the green peppers, so I eliminated those too. That left me with a five-ingredient [...]
4 Aug
Strawberry-Romaine Salad with Roasted Walnut-Balsamic Vinaigrette
Inspired by — what else? — a recipe in one of Dana Carpender’s cookbooks. That recipe called for an extremely sweet dressing with a half cup Splenda and a half cup of a polyol sweetener too. No thanks. I like my dressings savory, even when some of the salad ingredients are sweet. I dug around [...]
3 Aug
Low-Carb Ketchup
Modified from Dana Carpender’s No-Sugar Ketchup in her 500 Low-Carb Recipes cookbook. Her recipe calls for 1/3 cup Splenda, which makes it overly sweet for my taste. She also adds minced onions and garlic, but I’m too lazy for that. I didn’t add the optional 1/4 tsp guar gum to thicken it and keep it [...]
3 Aug
American Mini-Meatloaves Italiano
I had a meatloaf recipe that said “American” (cheddar cheese, ketchup, and blackstrap molasses are among the ingredients). I had some leftover homemade Italian pork sausage too. Meatloaf works best with a mix of meats but I didn’t have any plain ground pork. So I combined my ground beef with the Italian sausage, fixed up [...]
3 Aug
Grilled Chicken with Olive-Oregano Butter
This is adapted from The 5 in 10 Chicken Breast Cookbook, which I checked out from the library, but would like to buy. I cook boneless, skinless chicken breasts almost every week so I need some easy recipes. The original recipe called for marjoram which is a member of the oregano family. I don’t have [...]
