French Carrots

I love the simplicity of this recipe.  It takes a little while to cook the recipe, but uses only ingredients I almost always have on hand.  My husband got the recipe from a coworker a few years ago. 

image courtesy Kayotic Kitchen

Flourless Banana Bread Muffins

 

I recently stumbled upon this recipe from Running with Spoons!

Yeah! A treat I can make for my hubby! (He is on this crazy elimination diet trying to figure out his allergies)

The kiddos love to help make these. Their favorite thing to add to them is chocolate chips Raspberries or blueberries.

Meatballs / Meatloaf Mixture

Last week a picked up my order of hamburger from Zaycon foods!

I wish I could get fresh (not frozen) beef from my father-in-law but that’s not how they do it where we get the cows processed.  I love Zaycon foods, their meat is just as good as my father-in-laws!

You might think I’m crazy for getting 40lbs of hamburger, that doesn’t come packaged. At times I think I am! I love having easy meals ready to go in my freezer. Sometimes I just don’t want to take the time to thaw, make meatballs then bake them.

For me it is easier to just take one day and mix everything together (bake if needed) and package it for when I need an easy/fast meal!

This is what i made this time

• 24 lbs of meatballs
• 8 lbs of meatloaf
• 8 lbs of hamburger patties

This recipe is so easy and delicious! I often find my kiddos sneaking into the meatballs that are cooling! 

I love having easy dinners in the freezer.

When I make these I use Gluten Free Old Fashion oats and put them in a food processor to break the oats into smaller pieces. If you don’t want to use oats, sub 3 cups bread crumbs. 

What do you use meatballs in? Here are a few of my go to meatball dinner ideas.

• Slow Cooker BBQ Cranberry Meatballs –can be used as a appetizer
• Spaghetti and Meatballs
• Meatballs and Mashed potatoes

 

If you are interested in Zaycon Foods feel free to use my referral Zayconfresh.com/refer/zf14716

Kentucky Hot Brown Sliders

We celebrated Mother’s Day early with my Mother In Law last weekend, and Sweet Mama and I volunteered to cook so she didn’t have to worry about that.  We had decided to make funeral sandwiches since they are so delicious, crowd-pleasing, and easy to make ahead.  I had seen a recipe on Pinterest for these Kentucky hot brown sliders, and they looked a lot like our funeral sandwiches, so I decided to make my half from this recipe instead of our usual one.  They turned out really good.  Sweet Mama and I got compliments all day long about how good the sliders were!  Image courtesy and recipe adapted from The Seasoned Mom

Tater Tot Nachos (“Totchos”)

If I forget or don’t have time to put something in the crock pot on Sundays, we usually end up eating cereal for dinner.  I recently found this recipe on Pinterest and thought it would be a good one for the kids to help make, and it was looking dismally like a “cereal or starve” Sunday last night, so we decided to throw together a pan of “totchos” for dinner. 
image and recipe courtesy The Good Stuff

They were super easy to make, and they tasted pretty darned good, too.  Fun for the kids; I think they could probably practically do this one all by themselves!

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies (or Bars)

The kids were asking for another pan of chocolate chip bar cookies, but usually when I make chocolate chip cookies I also make oatmeal raisin cookies, so I decided to make a half batch of each of them and try out my oatmeal raisin cookie recipe as bars, too.  They turned out so chewy and delicious!  We loved them cooked this way!
image courtesy From House to Home

Chocolate Chip Cookies (or Bars)

Nothing breakthrough here today. I’m sharing my chocolate chip cookie recipe, which is actually really Nestle Tollhouse’s chocolate chip cookie recipe, but over they years I have made some modifications to suit our family. 
image courtesy American Heritage Cooking

Last night, the kids felt like cookies but I didn’t feel like standing around scooping out and baking four pans full of perfectly portioned cookies.  Instead of making them the “normal” way, I decided to just press the dough into a cookie sheet and bake them as bars.  They turned out so delicious and moist, if a little bit thin, which reminded me that I used to do them this way back when and when I did I would double the dough for the same size pan.  I will try them this way next time for a bit thicker bar.