New Year, new recipe

Well day 1 of 2014 and we did absolutely nothing.  Slept in till 10 got up and watched movies all day.  Guy movies, I'm in desperate need of a chick flick.  Platoon is the current movie of choice. I do love the old Charlie Sheen, the normal one.

Anyhow I let myself believe I could lay around all day today because tomorrow I gotta get serious.  I am going to de-Christmas tomorrow.  Ugh one of my most  dreaded days of the year. 

So I'm happy to have brought in the New Year on a lazy note and I think my family was too.

I did make a new recipe today.

Sausage Chowder

It was delicious.  The photo doesn't really do it justice.  Jeremy really likes sausage, I however am not a fan.  haha whatever

But I do love potato soup so when I saw this recipe I thought maybe we could both be happy.  

I don't remember where I found this recipe, not claiming it as my own but I can't give anybody credit either.

 

Sausage Chowder

1 pound sausage (I used Bob Evans regular flavor)

1 onion (I used 3/4 of a medium onion since onion isn't my favorite and I'm happy I did)

2 lg potatoes (I actually used 6 med sized red potatoes with the skins on)

3 cups milk

1/2 cup half and half (I had half and half but if you don't just increase milk by 1/2 cup)

2 bay leaves dried or fresh (I used dried)

1 can cream corn

Cheddar cheese

EVOO

salt and pepper

In a large pot, brown sausage in a little EVOO.  Remove browned sausage in a bowl and cover with foil to keep warm (you add it back in at the end).  Add chopped onion to the pot and saute in the sausage drippings.  Add in potatoes, milk, half and half, salt and pepper to taste, and bay leaves.  Simmer 20 minutes or until the potatos are tender, stir often.  Once potatoes are fork tender, add the sausage back in and add cream corn.  Heat through about another 5 minutes.  Serve and top with cheese.

 

When I made it we weren't quite ready to eat when it was finished so I left it on really low for an extra 20 min or so.  I don't think it made much difference other than keeping it warm for us.

 

I didn't put cheese on mine but Jeremy did.  I just didn't think it needed it.  To each their own.  I will definitely make this again.  Next time I'll make some cornbread or beer bread to go with it.

 

 

So that was our first day of the year.  Tomorrow Jeremy is back to work and I'll be trying to enjoy my last day off.  Maybe I'll spend some time on pinterest trying to find more yummy recipes.

Cherry Limeade, Ree Drummond style

Sorry for the blurry picture

 

We've been watching the Pioneer Woman on the food network.  I love her blog and so I started dvring her show. 
Well the whole family likes to watch it.  Last night she made cherry limeade and I was so excited, we love Sonic's cherry limeade.   I am famous for watching the food network shows but NEVER making anything I see on it. 

Until now....

I bought the ingredients after work today and whipped some up.  It's so easy and YES it tastes just like Sonic.  Well as close as I've ever tasted anyways. 

Here's the recipe taken right from the show.

 

1 cup lime juice (I used lemon lime cause thats all I could find)

1 cup sugar

I jar marashino cherries (add juice and cherries)

1 2-liter of lemon lime soda

Mix it all together, add some pretty lime slices and there ya go!! Fill a glass with ice, enjoy! 

If you make it, let me know what you think!

Easy Peasy

So Pinterest seems to be the new hot thing out there. I'm so super cool that I've been on Pinterest for awhile now and it seems like people I know are just now getting on the website and getting excited about it.
I love it for the crafts and the recipes. I also love all the obnoxious jokes and sayings. I've made several crafty things and a couple of the recipes. Mostly I pin stuff that I would like to buy or like someone to make FOR me.

However this weekend I decided to make the cresant roll recipe that I had just saw.

Basically you unwrap the cresant, lay out some ham or any other lunch meat you like and then pick a cheese that goes with it, roll it up, cook it for a bit and tada there you have it....lunch!

Sarah loved it, Jacob liked it.....so I guess I'll be making them again.

whew hard work, maybe next time I'll pick a recipe that has more than 3 ingredients,

Nah!