Blush Sauce

I saw my roomate, Kaci, making a delicious looking pasta the other night, and I inquired as to what it is. "Just a blush sauce". A what? Apparently it's basically a tomato sauce with heavy cream. She said it was her go to, and it smelled heavenly, so I couldn't wait to try my hand at it. I found a recipe on Pinterest and got my ingredients. It turned out to be SO GOOD. It's very rich, as you may have guessed. I threw some chicken in there so I got my protein serving haha. Give it a whirl, it's pretty easy - Recipe here! 

Ready for action!

Boiling and simmering.

YUM CITY!!

Sage Butter Pork

Pinterest recipe time! I've always been insecure about cooking pork chops... I have no idea why, maybe because I never made them growing up. Chicken? Sure! I'll make chicken all day. Veggie pizza? Of Course! Noodles? Oh yeah! Pork chop? NO NOPE NOOOO DON'T MAKE ME. Welp, finally decided to wing it and give it a whirl, and it is shockingly easy. I could go back in time and whap me upside the head with a newspaper over how easy this is and how I've been missing out all this time. It took like... maybe half an hour to make, and was so simple and delicious. Here's the recipe: Boop! I didn't really taste the sage at all, but I still liked it a lot!

Ingredients!

Sizzlin'

Just being a good boy and staying out of my way while I cook :)

Final product! With steamed broccoli smothered in butter of course.

So proud of myself :)

Crostini!

Came across this tasty treat on pinterest of course and had to give it a whirl. I feel like I baked my break a little too long, still getting the hang of my vintage oven's intensity, but otherwise this was DELICIOUS! I also found goat cheese with honey in it already so it was pretty effortless to make. Give it a whirl and make yourself some crostinis!

Biscuits and Gravy

Thanks to another pinterest recipe I was able to make a delicious breakfast for my little brother Duke, and I :) Simple biscuits and gravy, but oh such happy tummy food! When I did the final step to add the milk it seemed like I had made a mistake, it looked like meat cereal! I was worried I read the recipe wrong and Duke was like "add more flour" but I double checked and kept stirring, and then after a few moments it fluffed up into perfect gravy! So delicious.

Helpy helperton

Sleepy Duke haha

Soup

I made more soup! I’ve been killing the recipe goal this month. I forgot to take pics until it was basically all in the pot, but it’s just a simple minestrone recipe. Easy and tasty :) I put it in my new Stanley thermos which kept it piping hot all day, which ruled because I had a closing shift, and got to eat a hot meal during it.

Food Goals

Doing a lot better on making new recipes this month! Made two new sandwiches and crepes!!

The first was a turkey pesto sandwich. It was just okay, didn’t blow me away. I think part of the problem was I was so hungry that I didn’t heat it long enough so the cheese didn’t melt haha, but eh, it was easy to make!

The second was delicious! I skipped making the pesto the recipe calls for so I imagine it would be even better with it, but I don’t have a food processor or blender so that’ll have to wait. I smooshed it against my skillet and made it panini like and it was a great quick after work pick me up!

The crepes were SO GOOD. I waited too long to make them, and some of my fruit went bad, but I had just enough for one breakfast and it was heavenly. It makes a LOT of batter so be prepared for a feast, or cut it in half or even a quarter if you’re dining alone, I ended up wasting a lot. I also ended up with some thick crepes but they were still awesome. I smothered those babies with nutella and stuck some fruit in them and devoured. A lot cheaper than the ones at the market(but a bit more labor intensive so what can ya do?)

Recipes of December

For my recipe goal last month I made 1 of my 3 goal meals. So I'm adding one of my January ones to this post to make it more substantial. I made veggie soup and apple cinnamon pork chops. The first was a pinterest find of course, and could be made vegan(depending on the broth, but I had chicken so…), It was super simple, just involved a lot of prep i.e. cutting a ton of vegetables, and it made a lot! Such delicious comfort food.
 The second was also a pinterest find and was pretty easy to make. Mom helped with that one thankfully because I was a little nervous to cook the pork alone for some reason. The recipe just sounded so good I didn’t want to mess it up, haha. It turned out awesome though, and we loved it. Here are my humble cell phone photos of my creations.

Pumpkin Apple Dog Treats

In keeping with my goal to make at least three new recipes a month(which I've already surpassed by a few!), I decided to try to make this dog treat one for Steve. It was fairly simple, and after seaching multiple locations for a dog bone shaped cookie cutter and coming up empty handed I warped in old heart shaped one and went to town. In hindsight I should have diced the apples a bit smaller but ah well, what can you do. Steve loved them anyway!

Those eyes say "Wow, thanks Mom!!" haha

Becky Home-eccy

I made a list of fall/winter goals so as to keep myself busy and not fall into some sort of seasonal depressive episode. One of my goals is to try new recipes, and I've already surpassed my goal(three a month) and I'm feeling pretty proud of myself! I got my ingredients and some new mason jars and went to town. The first thing I made was overnight oats, recipe found here: click!

pre-raspberries and almonds!

Very easy and fast to make, and very yummy. I had enough to make the recipe about three times, and each made about two servings.

Then I made rice krispy treats, which is not a new recipe, but it was still fun to make with my little helper, and very delicious.

I googled to find the recipe for the hungarian mushroom soup we used to serve at the coffee shop I worked at in Alaska, and I couldn't believe I found it! It tasted just like it, it was delicious nostalgia haha. The recipe is here, and it is soooo good.

I will say the parsley was awful, skip that step. It looks pretty but yuck haha.

I'll keep you posted as I try new recipes! If anyone has any recommendations I'd love to hear, I'm just looking through pins on pinterest in the meantime :)