Risotto

I have the day off, so I have been busy making ahead some meals for the rest of the week! One of my favorites is risotto made with mushrooms, onions and leftover meat of some kind! Today's lucky winner is leftover pork loin. Risotto takes about 45 minutes from start to finish, don't walk to far away from when you start as it might burn or get stuck to the bottom of the pan! So plan accordingly! I use Vigo brand rice( it has to be arborio rice), 1/2 onion chopped, 1 container of mushrooms, cleaned and chopped, and chopped up meat(shrimp, pork, beef, or chicken), and 1 box of stock. If you use beef, use the beef stock, otherwise you can use vegetable or chicken stock. This can be made entirely vegetarian with the vegetable stock, just add more mushrooms or veggies. Start off with 2 Tablespoons of olive oil in the skillet, add onions, saute for 2 minutes and then add the cleaned mushrooms. Start the stock in a sauce pan to warm up, start adding the warm stock when the mushrooms start to wilt, a soup ladle at a time, keep stirring and adding the liquid until the rice has absorbed all the liquid and is soft! Taste as you go so you know when to quit cooking. At the end you will need about 1/2 cup of grated parmesan cheese to add to the rice, it will be creamy and yummy! Salt and pepper to taste. Good luck and blessings!

fruit salad

I really like fruit salad! I really don't like fruit cocktail! I probably ate too much fruit cocktail as a kid! What kind of fruit do you use in your fruit salad? I bought a pineapple on Friday and by Monday I needed to do something with it or throw it out! So, I bought 2 oranges, 2 apples and 5 bananas, put most of it together with the pineapple and WOW, so delish!! We just ate the end of it tonight! Blessings!

brownies

Friday I will be making brownie waffles. I saw this on Rachael Ray TV show in Feb. It's pretty much the mix and put in the waffle maker, put your favorite topping on them such as pie filling or fresh berries! Come in and see me! Blessings! Photo was taken behind my house with our trail cam!

Easter

Good afternoon! We finished eating a little while ago, but I wanted to share something with you today not food related! Jesus is the reason we celebrate Easter! He rose from the grave to give us

new life and I am eternally grateful! I pray that you know Him also! Blessings!

new site

Hey, I checked out a new website that I've been following! They made cheesecake in a jar! WOW!!!!! The website is : mybakingaddiction.com They don't know me, so I'm not promoting them for anything, but their recipes! Blessings!

Grill cheese

April is grill cheese month, I bet you didn't know that till I told you! So, in honor of grill cheese month, for Thursday's demo I made a "jalapeno popper grill cheese sandwich." Recipe: 1 8oz. package of softened cream cheese, 2 tablespoons of jalapeno chopped finely(I used the canned jalapenos and drained it). Spread the cream cheese mix on both slices of bread and put the cheese in between(I used shredded), then butter the outside of the bread and fry them up!!! The cream cheese gets gooey and the cheese all melted! YUM!!! Blessings!

Ikea trip

Well, I did survive the trip with 3 other girls yesterday! We laughed, ate, laughed, chatted, ate, laughed and laughed!! I did manage to take a few photos of the day! These are 2 rooms that I thought were very neat! Blessings!