Bacon Pie with Tillie

This is Tillie.

http://www.recipe-for-travel.com/recipes-bacon-cheese-potato.html

Something Different

My first daughter will be 5 in a couple weeks. Below is a video of her when she was 3 months old.

and here is one of her 5 years later!

Hasn’t she changed!?!

Lasagna in Three Parts

To make 3 9×13 pans or 4 8×8 pans
27 lasagna noodles
3 lbs hamburger
3 packages frozen spinich
3 lbs ricotta cheese
1 1/2 t pepper
3 – 28 oz bottles of pasta sauce
3 – 5 oz cans of tomato paste
2 1/4cups parmesan
3 medium onions chopped
9 garlic cloves crushed
6 eggs
3 lbs mozzarella sliced or grated
3 – 5 oz cans of water

- cook lasagna noodles. Make sure they are done or the entire thing is yuck!

Meat Sauce
- brown meat, onion and garlic. Add seasoning, sauce, paste and water. I also add tyme and oregeno. Simmer at least 20 minutes.
- thaw spinich and press in sieve to drain excess water.
- combine 1/2 spinich with meat sauce.

Ricotta Cheese Mix
-combine 3/4 cup of parmesan, eggs, remaining spinich, and the ricotta cheese.

- spread a thin layer of meat sauce in the bottom of the pan.
- layer noodles, meat sauce, ricotta cheese mix, mozzarella and repeat.
- top with 1/2 cup parmesan.

- refrigerate, freeze or bake at 350 for 60 minutes with 45 minutes covered and 15 minutes uncovered.
-let stand 10 minutes before serving.

Cupcakes

I made these cupcakes with the kids for a friend’s birthday.

 

2 1/4 cup rye flour

1/3 cup carob powder, sift to remove lumps

1 1/2 tsp baking soda

1 cup grape juice concentrate, thawed

1/2 cup oil

 

Mix the dry together. Mix the wet together. Add the wet to the dry. Put in cupcake pan. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes. Let cook and decorate.

Cake in a Mug Take Two

Rosemary, my mother-in-law, offered to do a second version of the cake in a mug with me showing the nuts and using the original recipe. It was raining like the flood was coming so why not do a second one!

 

Basic Super Veggie Soup

This is the soup that I make for my wife every week.

 

3 onions

1 bag of carrots

1 bunch of chard

1 bunch of kale

1 brick of tofu

miso or broth or bullion of whatever variety.

 

After everything is cut n cooked spoon it into 5 to 7 bowls and add one teaspoon or tablespoon to each bowl, depending on your taste. Perhaps make one bowl first to experiment. Freeze the rest of the bowls.

5 Minute Cake in a Mug

It takes 5 minutes from start to fork full of good cake in your mouth to make this cake. In the video I measured all the ingredients first so it takes a little less time.

 

Pinch of Salt

4 Tablespoons Flour

4 Tablespoons sugar

2 Tablespoons cocoa

1 egg totally mixed first

3 Tablespoons Milk

2 Tablespoons oil

a drop or 2 of vanilla

Optional – 3Tablesopoons of nuts or chocolate chips.

Mix it in a mug and throw in in the microwave for 3 minutes. Eat.

Basic Meatloaf

This next one is on meatloaf but it’s a very basic recipe and the video was cut and cut to make it below the 9 minute limit. Youtube has an official 10 minute limit but it seems to me that it’s really 9 minutes.  Just my experience lately. The meatloaf video is 8:42.

 

24 ounces of ground meat

1 1/2 cups finely chopped onions (unless you’d prefer to leave them out)

1 cup quick-cooking rolled oats

2/3 cup ketchup

3 large eggs

1 teaspoon ground thyme

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

 

Preheat the oven to 350. Mix all the ingredients with your washed hands and then cook it in a 9×5 loaf pan for 1 or 1 1/4 hour or until the center reads 160 degreees. Pour off excess fat and let stand for 15 minutes.

 

Other things you might want to add to experiment (not all at once) -

tablespoon mustard

1 large chopped pepper

1/2 cups raisins

1/2 cup pine nuts, toasted

1/4 cup chopped garlic

2 tablespoons cumin

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese

1 cup grated parmesan cheese

1/2 cup finely grated carrots, potato, or sweet potato

1/2 cup thinly sliced and sauteed mushrooms

1/2 cup cooked rice

1 teaspoon hot sauce

Spaghetti Western Meat Balls in Whiskey

So, we had a little Spaghetti Western party and my friend, Amber Dawn, agreed to make balls for it. It didn’t take much for her to go that extra mile for a friend and agree to record making them.  I’ll try to get some sort of recipe from her but I can’t make any promises. The balls were yummie and we ate them all up. Enjoy!

And Part Two!

Just a little about nothing

I started this video blog to sort of keep me out of trouble. Since starting it, however, things have started to get fun. The rains are coming to Vancouver and people are starting to give me requests. I’ll keep adding as long as I have something to say.

I have two facebook accounts and this is the only place they cross. One is friends in Vancouver and the other one is family and friends from high school or through my kids. This will work out as long as people don’t go out of their way to embarrass me with stories of past or current misadventures. (Not that I’m admitting that there are plenty of those kinds of stories out there.)

I never did tons of cooking before. As a youth I was involved in sports and ate many of my dinners out of the frig after practice so I wasn’t involved in the cooking. University eating in the dorms or the pubs then off to Africa where I paid a neighbour to cook for me. My 3os were spent working late and living with partners who did nearly all the cooking. I turned 40 and had a baby followed by another and now I’m a stay at home mommy of the queer or butch lesbian persuasion. Not the only one in the universe but one of not too many. As for the name of the blog, well, it was a joke but sort of captured the nutty mood I was in when this all started.

Speaking of nutty -