Prep time - 10 minutes / Cook time - 20 minutes This recipe was originally a Rachel Ray creation, heavily modified over the years in an attempt to make home made chicken tenders for picky toddlers. Now it is the second most requested chicken dinner on a weeknight. Only my chicken Parmesan [...]
Chopped beef and gravy has been a Pannucci family staple since I can remember. The name is a little misleading, as the "chopped beef" in this recipe is only one part of the final dish. In our house, this meal is really a combination of my "secret ingredient" mashed potatoes, the "chopped beef" and [...]
This is a great meaty weeknight pasta sauce courtesy of my great Aunt Gerri. If you use a spicy pepperoni or Italian sausage the leftovers will have a bit of kick. Prep time - 15 minutes / Cook time - 40 minutes 1 28 ounce can of pureed [...]
I must have tried a six or seven biscuit recipes until I found this one. The right amount of butter and of course buttermilk make for flaky biscuits. The yield is over a dozen, so you can half the ingredients or freeze the unbaked biscuits you don't need. Prep: 20 minutes Cook: [...]
Mac and cheese is heaven in a bowl to me, except when it comes out of a box and involves powder. I have been in search of the combination that makes you close your eyes and sigh when you take a bite. Last winter I finally found the cheese that would change everything — Prairie Breeze aged [...]
I think the kids leave a few bananas in the fruit bowl just so I have to make these muffins. One of the ingredients is overly ripe bananas. As in the blacker, the better. I modified this recipe from my go-to cookbook The Joy of Cooking. The addition of mini chocolate chips are what [...]
I have a few "go to" cookies and these are one of them. They're a family favorite, so I can usually get someone to help roll them in sugar in order to get them into the oven asap. These are pretty easy to make and very hard to mess up. They key is to [...]
A few years ago we hosted an Italian dinner as part of a school fundraiser and I wanted to make fresh mozzarella. After some research it turned out to more trouble then it was worth. I would need to find unpasteurized milk and order some rennet. More research and fresh ricotta looked like an easy [...]
