Make Megan-simple applesauce in the slow cooker
This dead-easy version of homemade applesauce has no added sugar and only a couple of ingredients. You don’t need to watch it, you don’t need to know how to can, and the only special ingredient you need is a slow cooker.
Megan-simple pork chop and black bean recipe
I have a nice simple pork chops and black beans recipe, taken from The Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook, for people like Megan. It might cheat just a little, since it calls for jarred salsa, but it’s easy, fast, good and rather healthy. And front start to finish it only takes 20 minutes.
Ever wonder what a TARDIS tastes like?
Apparently it can now taste like whatever you want it to with Think Geek’s TARDIS gelatin mold set! Obviously blue Jello is the way to go if you’re making a TARDIS gelatin mold. But did you know this baby can also make a tiny TARDIS cake!? Look at the delicious cuteness…
Megan-Simple taco beans with zeera rice
Here’s a recipe for Megan-simple taco beans with rice. This is something that will please everyone, veggies and meat-eaters alike, and it’s SO FREAKING EASY. It also stores and saves well, so you can dish up three or four portions and stick them in the fridge and you have lunch for part of the week.
Switching from children’s breakfast to “Grown-Up Food” with the Microwave Oatmeal Choc-Banana Mugcake
The biggest problem with breakfast is that it happens in the morning, where my top priority is getting every last second of snoozing in a warm-bed time, and condensing the necessary elements of morning routine into about 15 minutes from bed to out the door to work. My answer to THAT problem, for pretty much my entire working life, has been children’s cereal. I felt like it was time for a change, to grow up and have a food I could eat without shame in front of others. Which brings me to… Microwave Oatmeal Choc-Banana Mugcake!
Monsterously tart: Make a dessert that looks like Mike Wazowski
Mike Wazowski is the star of the children’s animation Monsters University and Monsters, Inc. This is how you can turn the lovable Mike Wazowski into a tart!
How to navigate a Community Supported Agriculture share
Thinking about joining a CSA — Community Supported Agriculture — share? I learned a lot about offbeat vegetables and how to prepare them. I learned how to roast beets without setting off the smoke detector. I know I still don’t like cabbage, after trying it three ways. definitely got creative with how to fit even more veggies into my family’s diet. And I got to use my favorite knife… a LOT. Here’s are all my tips from my experience as a first time CSA participant…
Make your own frozen dog treats — grain-free and healthy
During the summer months, my dog Hector gets overheated really fast. He’s a Corgi-black lab mix, so no matter what the season he’s got a thick black coat surrounding his stumpy little body at all times. This recipe came about after I made a large batch of stock from the remains of a roasted chicken, and it’s both easy and economical.