Stovetop Casseroles, Baked Goodies, & Soup (New Recipes of the Week~16)

No recipes, just pictures.

Here's part of what we tasted new in February.

Cheesy, spicy, juicy

No-Tortilla Enchiladas

More cheesy, saucy goodness in

Stovetop Lasagna

Another Baking Day

Big & little cakes along with puffy quick hamburger buns.

Soup and sourdough bread.

Those mini cupcakes got iced for a party!

Company's Coming!

We enjoy having friends into our home for meals. 

It's nice to tidy up our space, fix a nicer-than-usual meal (eat dessert for once), and set the table all nice-like. In general, it's just plain nice. 

For a glimpse of all this niceness, just scroll on down!

 

 

Finally, a table filled! 

Please pass the bread!

Gardening in April

Here are some photos of cool season plants that are stretching up and adding green to our backyard dirt space.

This lettuce clump overwintered and is growing nicely for some early season salad crunch.

Cilantro.

Garlic.

Spreading strawberries.

Sugar snap peas.

Salvia.

Tomato and lettuce and basil starts inside. 

Annie planted some giant zinnias and marigolds inside as well.

Baby lettuce and the big "survival" lettuce, plus my transplanted indoor starts 

(see that tiny pack of red and green mixed leaves)?

 The cilantro rapidly shot up.

 Turnips galore.

 Blooming strawberries!

 Taller peas.

 Raspberry sprouts or shoots.

April's yield: 1 pound of assorted produce including

cilantro, turnip greens, chard, lettuce, parsley, and chives.

7 1/2 hours of logged time spent in the garden.

Weed, plant, water, weed, pick...

Soup, Casseroles, & Snacks (New Recipes of the Week~15)

These are new foods we ate in December and January and I honestly do not know what recipes they are.

Yes, lacking on my record-keeping skills! I quit writing down our daily menu on the calendar and am now making a list of dishes for the week on scrap paper, choosing day by day, instead of planning specific days. I always erased and rearranged that old way, however it was good for reference!

I'm pretty sure we liked these enchilada-looking burritos. We rarely have a complaint about Mexican meals. Chili powder, garlic powder, and cumin are the seasonings I replenish in my pantry the most! plus cinnamon. We have come to prefer freshly made wraps to the soggy, casserole, baked kinds. Texture issues.

I like to mix assorted bagged salties then put them in ice cream buckets to take along. This mix was for an overnight basketball tournament...lunches or snacks or traveling nibbles.

Popcorn, spicy cheetos, corn chips, pretzels, and bugles. Oh my!