Enchilada Casserole

In my attempt to cook more family-friendly meals and avoid making something different for Audrey at dinner time I found this recipe in the December 2011 issue of Cooking Light and hoped it would be a winner. And guess what…it was! Ground beef simmered in a tomatoey sauce layered between flour tortillas and topped with [...]

Szechuan Green Beans with Ground Pork

My mom arrived in Hong Kong today. The 2nd picture my cousin posted on Facebook of her visit was of the family sitting around a table full of delicious looking food. This is one of my favorite dishes (another from Cooking Light magazine) but I’m sure it in no way compares to the good food at [...]

Steak Baguettes with Pesto Mayo

To quote Mike after taking a bite of this sandwich, “Mmm. This is good” Really good!” It was. I used fresh instead of store-bought pesto made with basil from my garden and even used a yellow tomato that I had managed to grow, too! We also used romaine lettuce instead of arugula and kaiser rolls instead of [...]

Creamy Linguine with Shrimp and Veggies

Please excuse my infrequent recipe posting. Don’t know how I manage to get nothing done lately! I AM still cooking dinner at least 5 out of 7 nights of the week but just haven’t been posting. Tonight’s recipe came from Cooking Light magazine. Seems I’m on a kick with their recipes again. Maybe I’ve been [...]

Cheesy Meat Loaf Minis

Photo from Cooking Light magazine We’re big meat loaf lovers in our house. I usually make my old stand-by recipe from a free Wyler’s cook booklet I got about 13 years ago. I’ve even made Sam’s Mexican Meatloaf from Sam the Cooking Guy. Tonight it was Cheesy Meat Loaf Minis from Cooking Light. Not a meat [...]

Oven Fried Chicken

photo from cookinglight.com I’ve never had real success with oven-fried anything. I saw this recipe while browsing online this morning and thought, “What the hey. It’s a new year. We’ll try it again.” While mine didn’t look quite as good as the chicken pictured here-probably since I was too lazy to try and brown the chicken pieces all [...]

Steamed BBQ Pork Buns

I have made these steamed buns many, many times with my mom’s recipe: marinated slices of pork slow-cooked and basted in the oven. Then I found this recipe from Cooking Light last March to make it in the slow cooker. GENIUS! When I enthusiastically told my mom about it she said, “but the pork will be mushy.” Well, it did [...]

Spinach Salad with Maple Vinaigrette

Maple syrup, dijon mustard, bacon and apples. I can’t think of a better fall salad. This one from Cooking Light was delicious…although I should have probably cut back on the red onions a little bit. Another recipe for the “keep binder!” All these Cooking Light recipes…you’d think I would’ve lost a little weight by now.

Who Needs a Cake Walk?

Fun Night at Audrey’s school was last Friday. As usual, we tried our luck at winning a cake in the cake walk. Out of 20 numbers, neither of ours were drawn. Being the dedicated cake walkers we are, after losing 2 tickets each after only the first try, we quit. I decided the next day that [...]

Gingery Pork Meatballs with Noodles

This is the 5th recipe from the hand-me-down September issue of Cooking Light. Again, it was delicious. I told Mike I felt bad for keeping the magazine from my friend since all the recipes we’ve had so far were so good. He said, “Well, make copies all the recipes first!” This recipe fell under the [...]