This sauce is AMAZING. Found it here, with a couple of minor changes. Just mix it up and keep it in the fridge for up to as long as your ingredients’ expiration dates, which could be weeks and weeks.
Savory Meatloaf
Comfort food doesn’t get any better than this. Serve with mashed potatoes, gravy and your favorite veggie. Hint: Save the drippings from your first meatloaf, freeze and use to make your gravy next go around.
Spicy Zuppa Toscana with roasted red peppers and gnocchi
Found this recipe here. Modified it a bit to fit Aaron and I’s tastes a bit better. Goes great with bread and butter and a side salad for a complete meal.
Lasagna Soup
Found this recipe here. Adjusted it a bit and it’s freakin good. Definitely a good winter meal.
Chili
We made this for a Sunday gathering with myself, Noelle, Alex, Chris, and Zeke. Added some sour cream, red onion, cheddar cheese, and crackers. Served it with some corn bread.
Seasoned Oyster Crackers
Another super easy oyster cracker snack for when you have the munchies and nothing’s around. You can whip them up pretty quickly. Great for company, too.
Soft Pretzels
Delicious hot, bread-dough like pretzels. Can be served with your favorite hot cheese dip. You can shape them like pretzels or make them in twisted bite-size pieces for dipping.
Matzo Ball Chicken Soup
Super yummy chicken soup with “dumplings” like gram used to make for us at her house.
Candied Pecans
Made my own recipe for these based on a previous try for Xmas ’15. To quote Chris.. “Lets just say it’s probably a good thing you gave me a small container.. Because holy cow that shizniz is good.”
Best Holiday Cut-Out Sugar Cookies
These cookies can stand on their own without icing, they’re that good. A touch of lemon and almond, together with moist cream cheese, make these really good.
Pumpkin Bread
One of the all-time best recipes for pumpkin bread. 🙂
White Almond Sour Cream Wedding Cake with Raspberry Filling
Found this recipe online, but it was for a full-on wedding cake for 40-50 people. I halved everything and it worked out nicely. A very rich and moist cake. Made this one for your dad’s 60th birthday and all of our friends really loved it, as did your Pop.
Blueberry Boy Bait
This is a really, really good recipe that is light and super easy to make. Might be good with frozen raspberries or canned pineapple chunks.
Homemade Ranch Dressing
Keeps in the fridge for up to a month. Nice and creamy. You can make it the consistency you want by adding milk. You can also add Parmesan cheese, bacon bits and/or lemon juice to mix up the usual ranch flavor a bit.
Moist Pina Colada Layer Cake
This was a hit when the Frenchies (my uncle Manu and cousin Valerie) came to visit Grandma in June, 2015. My uncle Rene from Detroit was here, too and he really loved this cake, which was a huge compliment coming from a career baker. Although the ingredients and instructions seem daunting, this is an easy cake to make. So go for it!
Easy Awesome Food Processor Cheesecake
Pretty darn easy cheesecake that you make using a food processor. Created this from a variety of recipes I found online, together with some really good tips for making a cheesecake without cracks.