Faith, Food and Family

A very sweet blogger named Kay at Cooking with K nominated me for an award! Be sure to stop over and check out her blog. She has some wonderfully yummy recipes! A few rules accompany the award: 1. Place the logo on the blog. 2. Link to the person who nominated the blog for this award. 3. Name 7 things about yourself that people might find interesting. 4. Nominate 7 Kreativ Bloggers. 5. Post links to the 7 blogs you nominate. 6. Leave a comment on each of the blogs letting them know they have been nominated. What's Interesting About Me: 1. I have lived in Tennessee (born and spent most of my life here), Ohio and Indiana. 2. I love anything related to cooking! 3. I collect cookbooks. I am now at well over 100 cookbooks. 4. I am a discussion group leader for MOPS. 5. I am a child of God. 6. I am a sucker for romantic movies. 7. I love to be surrounded by friends and family! The Nominees Are: 1. Cooking During Stolen Moments 2. Crafty Mom of 4 Boys 3. Thrifty Ways and Ideas 4. Finding...

Click on the image to go find your Bargain Meal of the Week! Welcome to the Bargain Meal of the Week. I am enjoying this and hope you all are too. Check out even more great recipes and bargains at $5 Dinners ! Food Lion's ad is available online so be sure to check your local ad. Here are some things that caught my eye.... Boneless breasts or tenders 1.79/lb 10 pound bag of russet potatoes 1.99 Smithfield Center Cut Ham Slices 50% off(reg price is 4.99/lb) General Mills Cereal B1G1F Keebler Chips Deluxe B1G1F Campbell's canned Tomato or Chicken Noodle Soups .59 Orville Redenbacher's Microwave Popcorn B1G1F Progresso Canned Soups 3/$4 Knorr Rice or Pasta Sides 10/$10 Barilla Pasta 5/$5 (this is my personal favorite pasta) Ore Ida frozen Potatoes (french fries, etc) 4/$10 Sweet Potatoes .59/lb 3 Day Sale Friday, Saturday and Sunday only Edy's Ice Cream $1.99 Scott or Cottonelle Bath Tissue 12 rolls $4.99 Gain Detergent 100oz $7.99 Kraft Shredded cheese or chunk cheese B1...

Time has certainly gotten away from me this month. My intentions were to blog. But every week at least one person has been sick. Nothing too bad thankfully but just enough when you add in other things that I have not been able to blog like I would have liked. So I am sorry I have been missing. I have a very yummy recipe to offer up to help make up for it. :) I had some friends over the other night and my intentions were to make a salad and dessert. However, the weather has started to cool down this week and I wanted to take advantage of that. I wanted to make soup instead. So I decided on Chicken Tortilla Soup in the crockpot. It was the first time I've made it and it was delicious! Chicken Tortilla Soup 2 onions, diced 5 cloves of garlic, minced (I used my garlic press) 2 tbsp of oil (I used canola) 4 tsp chili powder 2 tsp cumin 2 28oz cans of crushed tomatoes 2 cans of chicken broth 2 1/2 cups of water 1 16 oz bag of frozen corn 1 4oz can of green chiles 1 can of mild rotel (I u...

Yesterday, a few friends and I got together like we do pretty much every Thursday morning when school is in. We fellowship and everyone brings something to share. Yesterday I decided to bring Bacon, Egg and Cheese Bagels. And you'll be amazed at how much I spent. First lets get to the recipe. Baked egg squares 12 eggs 1/2 cup of water salt and pepper to taste Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease baking sheet liberally with butter (I used a 15x10x1 heavy sheet pan). In a bowl, whisk eggs, water, salt and pepper together. Then pour into buttered sheet pan. I have to add in here that I mixed the eggs the night before so that I just had to pour them in the pan in the morning. Just store in the fridge till you're ready to bake. Then bake until set. Mine cooked for about 20 minutes. Slice into squares to use on breakfast sandwiches. Yields: 12 squares The eggs did have a couple bubble up spots. I just poked them down with a fork and that worked just fine. I made 6 sandwiches. So here...

I had some apples that weren't quite good enough to eat raw so decided to make an apple crisp. I have to say, I ended up messing this one up a bit. I had a friend over for lunch and was trying to hurry so that it would be done before we had to go pick our kids up from school. So I accidentally left out the brown sugar. I realized this when I pulled it out of the oven. So I just mixed in the brown sugar and baked it a little longer. It was good after that. I think this would have really been good if I had did it right the first time. Apparently I just can't bake under pressure (see my pumpkin pie incident ). LOL I only made half a recipe and agree with some reviews that the flour needs to be cut down. I had never made apple crisp before and felt overall this was a pretty good recipe. Next time I will make sure I add the sugar! LOL I'll also cut down the flour a bit. Apple Crisp IV 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 cups rolled oats 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon ...

This is my favorite quiche. I got the recipe from my good friend, Wendy. It's a basic recipe where you can decide what you want to add to it. It calls for 1 cup of meat and 1 cup of veggies but I use sauteed mushrooms, sauteed onions and spinach (I use frozen, thawed in the microwave and squeeze all liquid out of the spinach). I use whatever amount of each I like. I probably sauteed up about 8oz of mushrooms, 2 small onions and used a handful of spinach. This is so yummy. Even the kids love it! Basic Quiche 3 eggs 1 can of evaporated milk 1 cup of meat 1 cup of veggies 8oz of cheese 1 tsp of mrs dash 1 pie crust (I haven't made homemade crust yet, so I use frozen. I do find that with frozen shells, you're going to get some overflow on this so use an old cookie sheet covered with a bit of foil) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Whisk together eggs, milk and Mrs. Dash. Then add in your ingredients of choice and cheese. Mix well. Pour into pie shell and bake for about 1 hour. My to...