My last post was just inside of the new year, nearly 3 months ago. I had good intentions to maintain this blog. Ive cooked a number of meals in this space of time and taken my customary step-by-step ...
Its been about 2 months since my last post, so I guess that I should begin by saying, "Happy New Year!" I spent part of the past 2 months away from home, living in a hotel Monday-Friday and t...
Hello friends! I realize that my last post was over 2 weeks ago. Its not that I quit cooking. Far from it- Ive been cooking (and baking) a TON of food lately...but mostly for other people. This fall ...
Three years ago, not long after I started this blog, I prepared an easy chicken pot pie recipe from Kraft foods. The recipe, found HERE, used frozen vegetables, condensed soup, processed cheese, and ...
Hello friends! To those of you who are regular "Kristas Kitchen" readers, I want to apologize for my absence of over two weeks. Nothing too exciting going on, Ive just been working more (scro...
A few weeks ago, I made Eggplant Parmesan for the first time. There are so many Eggplant Parmesan recipes out there that I was difficult for me to choose which one would yield the best finished produ...
I arrived home late tonight after being away all weekend, so no meal plan yet! I know that Im behind with many of my posts, so while the meal plan comes together, I thought that Id share this de...
As I sit down to type this post, its nearly 10 pm EST. I just realized that exactly 7 years ago at this time I was laying in a hospital bed, clad in a flimsy gown and hooked to all sorts of moni...
As promised in the meal plan, I served squash all week long. I even updated my spaghetti squash recipe and wrote about it in my weekly column for the Strongsville Patch. You can check out the article...
My family is going on a squash diet this week. In addition to the acorn squash that I picked from my garden on Friday, my youngest sister arrived for a weekend visit with bags of squash from our...
A couple of weekends ago my mom visited. She brought with her a bucket of hot red chili peppers from my grandmas garden. I decided to dry them. At first, I contemplated stringing them up to...
My family loves it when I plan for DIY dinners like build-your-own tacos or nachos, make-your-own pizza, baked potato bar, and now submarine sandwich assembly. I love it too, because all of the famil...
With this being a short week, I only needed to plan for 3 meals to feed my family. The choice of what to put on my meal plan was pretty easy since I wanted to find recipes that would utilize the prod...
When I found this Harvest Vegetable Tart in an old issue of Light & Tasty magazine, it looked so good and was so timely with all of the garden produce that was piling up on my kitchen counter tha...
This simple, easy to prepare, green bean salad has been my new craving lately! I still have an abundance of green beans growing in my garden, so when I found this recipe in the June/July 2006 edition...
I had the meal plan all ready to post on schedule last night, then my mom showed up for a surprise visit with a bounty of vegetables that my grandma picked from her garden to send along. A vegetable ...
A couple of weeks ago my husbands sister came to visit with her husband and our adorable 10-month-old niece. Of course, it is my nature to plan meals for company. On the night of their arrival, we pl...
Last week, after our neighbors invited us to their Saturday evening cookout, I immediately spied the very ripe bananas on our kitchen counter and texted back that I would bring dessert. Ive been mean...
I was all set to come up with a new, exciting meal plan for this week. However, after a busy Saturday of catching up on projects around the house topped off with a late night at a neighborhood cookou...
My grandmas marinated cucumbers and onions were a summer staple through my childhood. The recipe is so good that it has become a time-honored tradition. My family is still eating them today...
Whatever shortcomings our first-year garden may have, it sure is producing a lot of zucchini! Weve been enjoying zucchini in a number of dishes lately. But I had not yet prepared a favorite from my c...
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