In making fish and chips the other night this is what I whipped up for a tartar sauce. It does need at least 30 minutes for the flavors to meld, an hour is even better. Homemade Tartar Sauce Ingredients: 1/2 cup mayonnaise 1/2 cup diced dill pickles (well drained) 1 Tbsp lime (or lemon) juice… Continue reading Homemade Tartar Sauce
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Meals and whatnot.
Pasta Dinner
For tonight I used a bit of this and that to use up what we had on hand. The ravioli I used was half of a twin pack I picked up at Costco so a bit bigger than their normal grocery store pack. Perfect for 3 though. Ingredients: 1 package of Portobello Mushroom ravioli 4… Continue reading Pasta Dinner
Frosted Pumpkin Cake
Yes, I know...it is total pumpkin overload here. Hey, it is fall! And I am inspired 😉 I cam across this recipe in the current issue of Cooking Light (November 2009) and adapted it to work for me. The smell as it bakes is fantastic. Do make sure the butter has plenty of time to… Continue reading Frosted Pumpkin Cake
Pumpkin Bacon Rice
The curse of large cans of pumpkin would be using them up....so this dinner came out of a tub in the fridge glaring at me to use it up 😉 Pumpkin Bacon Rice Ingredients: 1 tsp extra virgin olive oil 1 Tbsp butter 1 yellow onion chopped 1/4 teaspoon fresh ground nutmeg 2 tsp cornstarch 1 1/4 cups lower sodium… Continue reading Pumpkin Bacon Rice