What is your go to meal? Do you have meals that you find pop up in your menu more often than others?
And... have you tried any of my Tasty Tuesday dishes yet? If so which ones, and what did you think??
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Tasty Tuesday... sort of
This week I didn't create a new Tasty Tuesday Recipe. But you can check out my past Tasty Tuesday dishes here. Last week Richard was gone for the week, and I felt not feeling well so I didn't cook much at all. This weekend we had pasta and burgers. I love to make new dishes, but I also like to fall back on my "go to" dishes from time to time. When I can't think of what to make I often go with chicken fajitas, tacos, or pasta. When I'm heading to the store and don't know what to make we will often pick up burgers or ham steaks. I also love the fact that most dinners I make have leftovers. I do not like to eat the same thing multiple times in a week so we freeze the leftovers and pull them out when we need to fill in our menu. In my opinion there is nothing better than a heat and eat meal during the week.
What is your go to meal? Do you have meals that you find pop up in your menu more often than others?
And... have you tried any of my Tasty Tuesday dishes yet? If so which ones, and what did you think??
What is your go to meal? Do you have meals that you find pop up in your menu more often than others?
And... have you tried any of my Tasty Tuesday dishes yet? If so which ones, and what did you think??
Tasty Tuesday review
I did not make a new recipe this weekend... we've been a bit busy. (Plus my camera is toast so I couldn't take a picture of it even if I did)
So I decided it would be a good time to let you know which recipes we have gone back and made again.
Buffalo Turkey Burgers. We have made this at least one more time. We made it with ground beef adding more hot sauce to the meat mixture as well as dipping the buns in the hot sauce with butter before grilling them. Yes, this one will stay in my recipe file!
Teriyaki-Beer Skirt Steak. I can't tell you how many time we have made this. I think it is one of our favorites! I will tell you that I've heard others who haven't liked it, but after talking to them they used cheaper beer than we do. We also used this marinade on chicken which was pretty good, but you need to alter the beer/teriyaki/sugar ratios and I haven't mastered them yet.
Mexican Meat-zza. This is another one that I have made more than once. We actually used it as the main dish for Blake's birthday party. It was a crowd pleaser.
Many of the other recipes we had leftovers of so I didn't have to remake them to try them again. I'll tell you we just pulled the Pasta with Pancetta and Tomato sauce out of the freezer and it was yummy!
I hope you have enjoyed my Tasty Tuesday recipes. Have you tried any yet? Do share if you have! Has it encouraged you to try new recipes of your own? Watch for new recipes coming to a Tuesday near you (o:
(to check out all the Tasty Tuesday recipes click here)
So I decided it would be a good time to let you know which recipes we have gone back and made again.
Buffalo Turkey Burgers. We have made this at least one more time. We made it with ground beef adding more hot sauce to the meat mixture as well as dipping the buns in the hot sauce with butter before grilling them. Yes, this one will stay in my recipe file!
Teriyaki-Beer Skirt Steak. I can't tell you how many time we have made this. I think it is one of our favorites! I will tell you that I've heard others who haven't liked it, but after talking to them they used cheaper beer than we do. We also used this marinade on chicken which was pretty good, but you need to alter the beer/teriyaki/sugar ratios and I haven't mastered them yet.
Mexican Meat-zza. This is another one that I have made more than once. We actually used it as the main dish for Blake's birthday party. It was a crowd pleaser.
Many of the other recipes we had leftovers of so I didn't have to remake them to try them again. I'll tell you we just pulled the Pasta with Pancetta and Tomato sauce out of the freezer and it was yummy!
I hope you have enjoyed my Tasty Tuesday recipes. Have you tried any yet? Do share if you have! Has it encouraged you to try new recipes of your own? Watch for new recipes coming to a Tuesday near you (o:
(to check out all the Tasty Tuesday recipes click here)
new poll
I posted a poll on my side bar about Tasty Tuesday. Feel free to answer honestly as it won't alter my opinion about doing Tasty Tuesday. Right now Richard and I are having a great time doing this together and I have no plans on stopping anytime soon! (o:
---Don't forget to check out today's meal... simple easy Italian dish!
---Don't forget to check out today's meal... simple easy Italian dish!
Buffalo Turkey Burgers with Chili Fries
I love to try out new recipes no matter if they are ones I created in my head, ones I found on-line or in a cookbook. Over the years, I have tried recipes from a lot of chefs, one who seems to match my cooking style is Rachael Ray. As a mother, you've got to appreciate the concept of a 30 Minute Meal! Rachael Ray often says that her recipes are just methods. She encourages her viewers to take her recipes and make them their own. I "Lori-ize" almost everything I cook, tayloring the recipe to my families taste. I decided to combine these two ideas and what you see here is the result. Each week I'll create a meal based on a recipe and let you know what we thought. I will give you the original recipe and let you know how I "Lori-ized" it. Hope you enjoy Tasty Tuesday!
This week we chose Buffalo Turkey Burgers with Chili Fries. I originally found this recipe in Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats cookbook. Then I searched for it on-line. It was slightly different on-line, the way I made it is a little bit of both.
After reviewing the recipes I decided to utilize the following to make my burgers:
ground turkey, chopped celery, chopped scallions, grill seasoning, poultry seasoning, salt, pepper, 6 shakes of Tabasco and EVOO.
Richard grilled the burgers on the grill instead of cooking them in the frying pan. In the recipe in the cookbook she suggested that after the burgers were cooked you melt 2 tbsp of butter and 1/4 cup of hot sauce in a pan and coat the patties in the butter/hot sauce mixture.
For the fries, we cut 1 baking potato into wedges and coated them with EVOO, chili powder, cumin, paprika, coriander, grill seasoning and salt. We cooked these on the grill also by placing them into an aluminum foil packet.
We also made sweet potato fries too. We cut up 1 sweet potato into wedges sprinkled them with sugar, cinnamon and about 1 tbsp of butter. Then put them into an aluminum packet on the grill too.
We decided that we liked the concept of this meal. We decided to add lettuce to our burgers to add some crisp. After adding the butter/hot sauce mixture to the buns it took on a bit more of the buffalo flavor that we were looking for, but still wasn't quite there yet. We really enjoyed the sweet potato fries (a recipe I've been tweaking for a few weeks). We decided that the oven fries are called oven fries for a reason... they work better in the oven. The oven provides the crisp that makes them seem more "fries".
If we make this again, we will probably try it with ground beef instead. Yes, I understand that the purpose is to try to get the buffalo wing feel, but it was certainly lacking the moisture we were craving. (If you wanted to do turkey or ground chicken, I would suggest grating an onion into the mixture instead of the scallions to add more moisture). I would add more hot sauce to the actual burger mixture (ground meat, grill seasoning, garlic, Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, onion flakes). I would heat up the butter/hot sauce mixture and put it on the top and bottom buns to add that extra heat kick!
I will certainly make the sweet potato fries again.. these are getting better and better each time (big hint... cut the wedges pretty thick or they WILL burn!). The oven fries taste was fine, but as I said they are much better out of the oven since they have that crispiness that makes you think fries!
(hope you enjoyed the first edition of Tasty Tuesday... if you make this recipe let me know!)
I could post about...
I could post about what's really on my mind... lack of sleep, sick children, mouth pain from getting a filling yesterday, being exhausted, cleaning the house, listening to both my boys cough their heads off, lack of sleep... did I mention that I'm tired? But, I won't... I've whined enough about that this week, month... year!
I could post about the growth I've seen in both my sons in the last few weeks. Colby blows my mind as he says the alphabet, sings songs, counts to 12, knows his shapes, speaks in sentences, and just loves life. Blake is growing in leaps and bounds... he is trying to sound out words, sings songs that he has heard once or twice, recites stories word for word, recognizes numbers (the other day he looked at the number 18 and said... that's eighty-one... when did he learn the number 81?)
I could post about the fact that Richard is back into work crazy hours. It kills him to not get to spend a lot of time with the boys. He is working hard at his job and rushes home to try to get in 30-40 minutes with them before bedtime. I love the fact that he loves them (and me) so much.
I could post about the fact that I'm trying to pull together the things for Colby's birthday... yes Colby is turning 2 in a few weeks.
But, it's Friday and I don't feel like posting about any of those things. So instead I'll ask you a question. Have you tried any of my Tasty Tuesday recipes?
Last night we revisted the bbq pork and apples, I made it with a pork butt and skipped the apples. I think that this maybe one of the dishes I serve at Colby's birthday party.
We are also making Mexican Meat-zza and Pancetta Pasta this weekend... guess it is revisit Tasty Tuesday weekend here.
I could post about the growth I've seen in both my sons in the last few weeks. Colby blows my mind as he says the alphabet, sings songs, counts to 12, knows his shapes, speaks in sentences, and just loves life. Blake is growing in leaps and bounds... he is trying to sound out words, sings songs that he has heard once or twice, recites stories word for word, recognizes numbers (the other day he looked at the number 18 and said... that's eighty-one... when did he learn the number 81?)
I could post about the fact that Richard is back into work crazy hours. It kills him to not get to spend a lot of time with the boys. He is working hard at his job and rushes home to try to get in 30-40 minutes with them before bedtime. I love the fact that he loves them (and me) so much.
I could post about the fact that I'm trying to pull together the things for Colby's birthday... yes Colby is turning 2 in a few weeks.
But, it's Friday and I don't feel like posting about any of those things. So instead I'll ask you a question. Have you tried any of my Tasty Tuesday recipes?
Last night we revisted the bbq pork and apples, I made it with a pork butt and skipped the apples. I think that this maybe one of the dishes I serve at Colby's birthday party.
We are also making Mexican Meat-zza and Pancetta Pasta this weekend... guess it is revisit Tasty Tuesday weekend here.
Skirt Steak Tacos with Roasted Tomato Salsa
(It's backkkk)
I love to try out new recipes no matter if they are ones I created in my head, ones I found on-line or in a cookbook. Over the years, I have tried recipes from a lot of chefs, one who seems to match my cooking style is Rachael Ray. As a mother, you've got to appreciate the concept of a 30 Minute Meal! Rachael Ray often says that her recipes are just methods. She encourages her viewers to take her recipes and make them their own. I "Lori-ize" almost everything I cook, tailoring the recipe to my families taste. I decided to combine these two ideas and what you see here is the result. Each week I'll create a meal based on a recipe and let you know what we thought. I will give you the original recipe and let you know how I "Lori-ized" it. Hope you enjoy Tasty Tuesday!
When I was putting together our menu for the week, Richard said he wanted steak. I decided to pull out this recipe that I had found another time I was searching for a Tasty Tuesday recipe. We made Skirt Steak Tacos with Roasted Tomato Salsa by Bobby Flay.
After reading the recipe I decided to make the salsa as is since I've never made salsa before. We altered the steak by adding steak seasoning. If you have never used steak seasoning, you should really try it! We use it in almost every dish that we use meat.
After taste testing the salsa, well...
in the fridge it went. We felt it was wayyyy to mild for us, and has something a bit off.
The steak was good, but we make skirt steak fajitas all the time so that was nothing new for us. The salsa we didn't even eat (as you can see in the picture, we used jarred salsa instead)
I'm working on the salsa. Yesterday I sauteed up 2 more serrano peppers, 2 jalapeno peppers and a yellow onion. I also grilled a green bell pepper. I added these all as chunks to the salsa and cooked it together adding more salt, pepper and sugar. I added a bit of cumin to it also. This new version was much hotter, but not overly hot (to our taste buds). I had tasted it before I recooked the whole salsa, just after the sauteed was added to the original and let me tell you that was HOT when you hit a pepper. We are going to try it on chicken fajitas one day this week. I'll let you know how it turns out.
--anyone have a good raw or cooked salsa recipe that they have used???
I love to try out new recipes no matter if they are ones I created in my head, ones I found on-line or in a cookbook. Over the years, I have tried recipes from a lot of chefs, one who seems to match my cooking style is Rachael Ray. As a mother, you've got to appreciate the concept of a 30 Minute Meal! Rachael Ray often says that her recipes are just methods. She encourages her viewers to take her recipes and make them their own. I "Lori-ize" almost everything I cook, tailoring the recipe to my families taste. I decided to combine these two ideas and what you see here is the result. Each week I'll create a meal based on a recipe and let you know what we thought. I will give you the original recipe and let you know how I "Lori-ized" it. Hope you enjoy Tasty Tuesday!
When I was putting together our menu for the week, Richard said he wanted steak. I decided to pull out this recipe that I had found another time I was searching for a Tasty Tuesday recipe. We made Skirt Steak Tacos with Roasted Tomato Salsa by Bobby Flay.
After reading the recipe I decided to make the salsa as is since I've never made salsa before. We altered the steak by adding steak seasoning. If you have never used steak seasoning, you should really try it! We use it in almost every dish that we use meat.
After taste testing the salsa, well...
in the fridge it went. We felt it was wayyyy to mild for us, and has something a bit off. 
The steak was good, but we make skirt steak fajitas all the time so that was nothing new for us. The salsa we didn't even eat (as you can see in the picture, we used jarred salsa instead)
I'm working on the salsa. Yesterday I sauteed up 2 more serrano peppers, 2 jalapeno peppers and a yellow onion. I also grilled a green bell pepper. I added these all as chunks to the salsa and cooked it together adding more salt, pepper and sugar. I added a bit of cumin to it also. This new version was much hotter, but not overly hot (to our taste buds). I had tasted it before I recooked the whole salsa, just after the sauteed was added to the original and let me tell you that was HOT when you hit a pepper. We are going to try it on chicken fajitas one day this week. I'll let you know how it turns out.
--anyone have a good raw or cooked salsa recipe that they have used???
Honey Soy Skirt Steak.
I love to try out new recipes no matter if they are ones I created in my head, ones I found on-line or in a cookbook. Over the years, I have tried recipes from a lot of chefs, one who seems to match my cooking style is Rachael Ray. As a mother, you've got to appreciate the concept of a 30 Minute Meal! Rachael Ray often says that her recipes are just methods. She encourages her viewers to take her recipes and make them their own. I "Lori-ize" almost everything I cook, tailoring the recipe to my families taste. I decided to combine these two ideas and what you see here is the result. Each week I'll create a meal based on a recipe and let you know what we thought. I will give you the original recipe and let you know how I "Lori-ized" it. Hope you enjoy Tasty Tuesday!
I had picked up some skirt steaks at BJ's and wanted to try something different with them. If you follow my Tasty Tuesday recipes, you will know that I've posted two other steak recipes that I LOVED! (Teriyaki-beer skirt steak and Marinated Steak with Caramelized Onions) But, change is good so I decided to try Honey Soy Skirt Steak.
I added both Balsamic Vinegar and Balsamic dressing, ok I added the dressing first by mistake so I added the vinegar to cover myself... lol. I grilled these on the grill not in a pan. I can grill year round here so it seems silly to grill on the stove when I can do it on the grill instead.
This steak was good, but it wasn't exactly what I expected. It wasn't as sweet as I thought with the honey and the soy didn't have a strong presence either. It was cooked perfectly.
I liked the concept of this recipe, I just think it needs more work. Maybe a bit of brown sugar and more soy? Maybe add grill seasoning to up the season factor? Not sure. If you try it let me know. Or if you are looking for a go to steak recipe, click on one of the other two I posted at the top.
Menu planning
Before I post my menu... I wanted to update you on Colby. I took him to his pedi. yesterday and we've decided that most likely the hives were caused by a virus. Pretty much unless he breaks out again we will never know for sure. Today he woke up with no sign of the hives at all! (o;
We have to give him the Benedryl today and tomorrow and then hope they don't come back again after that. Thank you all for your cares and concerns.
Yes, I know I haven't done this in a while. But, since I'm planning on starting a new Tasty Tuesday segment on Tuesday... I figured... hey why not post my menu plan too??
Thursday: Spaghetti Squash with homemade meat sauce (the sauce is leftover)
Friday: Stoup concoction (I made stuffed peppers that came out... alright, but I need to do something different with the leftovers... so stoup it is!)
Saturday: Buffalo Turkey Burgers with chili fries (watch for more about this on Tuesday)
Sunday: Breakfast for dinner (french toast and bacon)
day 1: Pressed Sandwiches
day 2: Grilled chicken or steak fajitas (I haven't decided which yet... lol)
day 3: leftovers
We have to give him the Benedryl today and tomorrow and then hope they don't come back again after that. Thank you all for your cares and concerns.
Yes, I know I haven't done this in a while. But, since I'm planning on starting a new Tasty Tuesday segment on Tuesday... I figured... hey why not post my menu plan too??
Thursday: Spaghetti Squash with homemade meat sauce (the sauce is leftover)
Friday: Stoup concoction (I made stuffed peppers that came out... alright, but I need to do something different with the leftovers... so stoup it is!)
Saturday: Buffalo Turkey Burgers with chili fries (watch for more about this on Tuesday)
Sunday: Breakfast for dinner (french toast and bacon)
day 1: Pressed Sandwiches
day 2: Grilled chicken or steak fajitas (I haven't decided which yet... lol)
day 3: leftovers
House painting progress!
I couldn't decide when to post these pictures since tomorrow I have my 365 posting, Sunday is Easter, Monday I'll post Easter pictures, Tuesday I have my Tasty Tuesday recipe coming. So here you go a LATE Friday post for you.
Before:
Chopped the hedges:
Painting progress:
Done!
We are getting new coach lights, numbers and put a new front lock on the door. I haven't taken a picture where you can see the whole thing because there always seems to be a car in the driveway. Maybe after we get the new lights on I'll get a whole house pic?
Before:
Chopped the hedges:
Painting progress:
Done!
We are getting new coach lights, numbers and put a new front lock on the door. I haven't taken a picture where you can see the whole thing because there always seems to be a car in the driveway. Maybe after we get the new lights on I'll get a whole house pic?
Questions for me?
I did this a few years ago, actually I think it was right before my first blogoversary so it was a while ago, anyway...
This is your chance to ask me about... anything you want to know, within reason of course!
Questions for the teacher side of me? Questions for the cook? Questions for the mom? Questions for Lori? Is there anything you think you want to know about me or from me that you have yet to ask?? Now's the time! I'll try to answer them on the next few Wednesdays depending on the response that I get.
So if you have a question for me either post it in my comment or e-mail me at Lori.Mommyto2@gmail.com. I'll e-mail you back when I post my reply on here, of course you read my blog daily so you'll know when it's posted, but hey I just want to cover all bases!
I did make Tzatzki sauce this week as I mentioned in Tasty Tuesday last week, but I was not enamoured with it. My guess is it is more my flavor profile than the actual recipe. I'm not a huge cucumber fan, ok I'm not a fan of cucumbers at all and that is all I could taste in the sauce so it got tossed. I don't want to review it and give it a bad review when it is probably just me. I did make a super yummy batch of cookies today so watch for that recipe next Tuesday. I still plan on making homemade hummus, did I tell you that I'm addicted to that stuff now??
This is your chance to ask me about... anything you want to know, within reason of course!
Questions for the teacher side of me? Questions for the cook? Questions for the mom? Questions for Lori? Is there anything you think you want to know about me or from me that you have yet to ask?? Now's the time! I'll try to answer them on the next few Wednesdays depending on the response that I get.
So if you have a question for me either post it in my comment or e-mail me at Lori.Mommyto2@gmail.com. I'll e-mail you back when I post my reply on here, of course you read my blog daily so you'll know when it's posted, but hey I just want to cover all bases!
I did make Tzatzki sauce this week as I mentioned in Tasty Tuesday last week, but I was not enamoured with it. My guess is it is more my flavor profile than the actual recipe. I'm not a huge cucumber fan, ok I'm not a fan of cucumbers at all and that is all I could taste in the sauce so it got tossed. I don't want to review it and give it a bad review when it is probably just me. I did make a super yummy batch of cookies today so watch for that recipe next Tuesday. I still plan on making homemade hummus, did I tell you that I'm addicted to that stuff now??
project 365 (92-97)
This week my project 365 is short, well there is a good reason for that, I'm setting it to post on Thursday instead of setting it up Friday night. Why you might ask... well I won't be around to set it up Friday night. So next week I'll post 8 days instead of 7 and this week you get 6 instead of 7. I'm sure everyone will survive! And the pictures should be worth the wait!
92/365
We took the boys to a Day Out With Thomas. There are two huge collages of pictures posted here!
93/365
What is better than a Popsicle on a warm day?
94/365
Easter Bunny art project. Can you guess who made which one? (yes I have one child who is a perfectionist and another who channels Picasso)
95/365
Colby and I made cookies, pop back on Tuesday for the recipe. It will be my Tasty Tuesday on April 12th
96/365
Blake's first soccer practice of the season.
97/365
Playing games at Grammy and Grampy's house
92/365
We took the boys to a Day Out With Thomas. There are two huge collages of pictures posted here!
93/365
What is better than a Popsicle on a warm day?
94/365
Easter Bunny art project. Can you guess who made which one? (yes I have one child who is a perfectionist and another who channels Picasso)
95/365
Colby and I made cookies, pop back on Tuesday for the recipe. It will be my Tasty Tuesday on April 12th
96/365
Blake's first soccer practice of the season.
97/365
Playing games at Grammy and Grampy's house
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