Home Cooked Meals

I'm surpised how incredibly personal these drinks are. Each one reminds me of special loved ones and good times.

Bread is one of my weaknesses. I love a truly good loaf of bread. Here you'll find quick bread recipies and ones that take all day to make...and only about 5 minutes to devour.

Breakfast is the hardest meal of the day for me, since mornings and I don't get along very well. I have found a few recipes that make the morning almost bearable, and will share them here.

A quick and easy desert can turn a boring mid-weak meal into a feast.

This category is generally for one-dish meals liike casseroles, or other main-courses that aren't specifically a "meat" dish.

Meat dishes will have some form of dead animal as the main ingredient, but will usually not make up the full meal without some form of side dish.

My family has a love-hate relationship with pasta. There isn't one of us that won't put on weight quickly if we eat it, but we do love it. Pasta is easy on the budget, filling to the stomach, and murder on my insulin resistant waistline.

We all need to eat more vegetables.

Soups can warm the soul on a cold Winter's night, or cool us in the heat of the Summer. Better yet, soups can fill a crowd on short notice and extend a tight budget.

These are recipies that you mix and then store for use elsewhere. I have a number of mixes that fit into this category, as well as some custom spice blends. Good staples can cut the time to put together a "scratch" home-made meal down to less time than it would take to run to the store for take-out.