I made this 7 Layer Dip for the Halloween Party this past Halloween at my Brother-in-Law’s house. I know a few people who would make this dip very basic. You’d probably find the same basic recipe online too. The ground beef is browned, seasoned with salt & pepper, then the oil is drained before layering it first on the bottom of a pan. My 7 Layer dip is not quite like that. I treat my beef special :). I add something more besides just salt and pepper.

I ordered my Pampered Chef goodies from my sister-in-law’s party back in August but I didn’t get them until last Halloween. I’ve waited patiently for these goodies and I’m so happy I finally have them. I love Pampered Chef. A bit expensive but the quality is better than anything out there.

Springfoam Pan. A good pan for making cheesecakes, tortes and deep dish pizzas. Oooh. The bottom is glass.

One of the favorites from our traditional weekend breakfast is this corned beef hash frittata. I don’t always make just eggs, bacon and ‘taters or pancakes. I like to turn leftover meats from the night before into breakfast the next day. Making a frittata out of them is one of the ways I come up with.
In this case though, I didn’t use leftover meat. I specifically bought a can of Hormel Corned Beef hash for this particular breakfast item. But you sure can use any leftover meat or …

If you’re like me, you like peeling off the broccoli stalk instead of throwing it away, slice it diagonally and add them in your stir-fry. I discovered this past summer, through my sister-in-law that you can find a bag of shredded broccoli stalks in any grocery stores. She attended some kind of a party and one of the snacks at the party was a slaw with shredded stalks of broccoli, carrots, red cabbage and mandarin orange. It was really good.
Upon learning that fact, I searched for a bag …

It’s Fall. That means fresh potatoes. And one good thing about living in a farmland is that farmers are very generous after harvesting their crops. When they’re done, they give you a chance to get your bucket and dig the land for sweet potatoes that they don’t need anymore before they start a new crop for something else. I guessing, cotton.  Trust me, there’s a lot of leftovers in the ground. You must have patience and love eating sweet potatoes to enjoy digging into all that dirt. My husband went …

Here’s a very easy pork stir-fry recipe for those days when you’re just in  a hurry to have dinner ready. Hoping of course that you’ve already had rice cooking in the rice cooker

Can you believe I made these fudgy & chocolate chips brownies earlier last month and I’m just now posting it? Food blogging is hard when you’re taking pictures of your own dishes, then having to do the step-by-step. While cooking and posting. It’s quite overwhelming but I love showing you guys that cooking is not something to be afraid of. It’s very fun and very rewarding :).
I actually adapted this recipe from the back of the Meadow Gold condense milk. It originally called for coffee and chopped almonds …

Rice is this Sunday’s theme for LaPiS. I’ve decided to make sushi for this theme. I’ve been eating sushi at Japanese restaurants and buying sushi platters from the Commissary lately that I haven’t made them in a while. Albeit a tedious task, I quite enjoy making my own sushi. I discovered today, it’s even more tedious if you’re trying to take step-by-step how-to-make sushi pictures to share with friends online :).
But I persevered without leaving any sticky grain of rice in my Nikon D40. Hope you learn from it …

For our traditional weekend breakfast (Mommy doesn’t cook breakfast during the week) this morning I asked hubs how did he like the eggs, scrambled or fried? He said he didn’t really feel like eating breakfast. He’s sick right now. He’s the last member of the family who caught the bug. First was the baby girl, then the son, which of course ended up with me and now it’s Daddy’s turn.
But then, before I could leave the room, Hubs said, “you know, I could really go for some bagels …

A twist to the usual mashed potatoes is by adding caramelized onions. It sounds fancy, but trust me it’s very simple and so easy to make.

The new edition of LaPiS touches on the theme COLORFUL. I originally planned on making some sugar cookies in different shapes using my 8 various cookie cutters that I bought from the $ store but today got so hectic and down right weird that my sugar cookies turned into thin shortbread chocolate chip cookies. I didn’t realize I’m out of flour. Ah, time to really hit the store and stock up the pantry again.
I had plans on decorating my cookies which would’ve been in shapes of bears, apples, hearts, …

Instead of the usual ground meat, browned, oil drained and simmered with spaghetti sauce, I thought I’d impress my son who loves Nanny’s (Mother-in-Law) meatballs. Except I didn’t want to make big ones. I wanted mini-meatballs. Coz with big meatballs you’d still have to cut the meat in half and will eventually end up as cooked ground meat with sauce. So what’s the point right?
With minis, you can pop one in your mouth with pasta and sauce. Sounds delish, no?

When I bought the organic tofu I intended to use it for Hot & Sour soup. But while putting the groceries away on that day, I discovered that my pantry was lacking of a bottle of rice vinegar. That happens to be the ingredient that makes the soup. So I said, oh well. I’ll go back to the store sometime and buy a bottle.
Except of course that “sometime” never happened when we had leftover grilled steaks one night. I planned on using the steaks for stir-fry and I …