Tag: new creations

  • Baby Shower Creations

    Baby Shower Creations

    Other the last few months, my friend and I had the privilege of putting together a baby shower for our close friend. After countless times getting together to “plan”, which always turned it to fun chatter time, we finally got everything planned out. We took one night to decorate cookies, using the best sugar cookie recipe (my…

  • Baking with our “girls”

    Baking with our “girls”

      It was one of the girls birthdays yesterday, so one of her sisters and I spent time Friday night baking. She wanted to make a cheesecake which turned into me making it. Not a big deal as I love to bake. Plus it was fun to do a something a little special for “our”…

  • Creamy Potato Soup

    Creamy Potato Soup

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    After a day of single digit temperatures, there was nothing more desirable than soup for dinner. Homemade soup it was! This would be great served with Zopf bread or biscuits. Feel free to add other vegetables as I only used what I had on hand. Enjoy! 1 medium onion diced 2 tsp minced garlic 1/2 cup…

  • Cheesy Breadsticks

    Cheesy Breadsticks

    Tonight was pizza night in the Powell house. We made a homemade chicken pizza with Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce. I decided that I would try to make some breadsticks to go along with them. Another new creation and a keeper it is! For the Bread: 2 cups flour 1 tsp. yeast 3/4 cup warm…

  • Popovers

    Popovers

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    What to make for dinner? What to make for dinner? This question is always lingering around in my head before I head home from work. Do I want to take the time to make something, or just throw something together really quick? As I sat at my desk, pondering what to make, I thought about…

  • Making People Fat for the Holidays

    Making People Fat for the Holidays

    Over the past several years, my mom, sister and I have gotten together to make Christmas cookies. It has been a blast. Usually, we just make my grandma’s awesome White Cookies and then maybe one or two other cookies that we are familiar with making. Last year, we spent hours decorating the white cookies with…

  • An Indoor Winter Wonderland

    An Indoor Winter Wonderland

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    Over the last couple weeks, my friend and I had the opportunity to plan our work Christmas party. Our owners decided to hold it in our new greenhouse located at the store I work at. In the past years, we have had the party in our downstairs conference room. Though it is a decent size,…

  • Broccoli Cheddar Soup

    Broccoli Cheddar Soup

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    A soup I have been wanting to make for a while! Now I have finally done it and it turned out great. I am excited to attempt to make it my own version. There are some ideas I have to make it better. For a first try though… It was mighty tasty. Then a side…

  • Zopf

    Zopf

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    What is zopf you ask? That is what I thought when I Googled for a bread recipe for dinner with some friends. I wanted to find something new yet easy enough to try for the first time. I stumbled upon a recipe for this zopf bread which is a Swiss Sunday morning bread. It is…

  • Turkey Bolognese

    Turkey Bolognese

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    I made another meal with leftovers last night! This time it was so good, I am sharing the recipe. Well, most of it. I had to make my own marinara sauce with this, but I will not go into that recipe. Turkey Bolognese Ingredients: 1/4 cup olive oil 1 onion, chopped 4 garlic cloves, minced…

  • Turkey Enchiladas

    Turkey Enchiladas

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    Of course we had even more leftovers than just the smashed harvest veggies. We have a ton of turkey! My favorite Thanksgiving leftover. Last year I tried turkey soup and a turkey pot pie. Both of which turned out great! This year I decided to give turkey enchiladas a try. That is what I spent…

  • Smashed Harvest Veggie Ravioli

    Smashed Harvest Veggie Ravioli

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    There are always so many leftovers from Thanksgiving. I decided that my smashed harvest veggies would be tasty inside some ravioli. Tonight I decided I would give making my first ravioli a try. (First noodle making experience as well). It was a little difficult considering I do not have a pasta machine, but I rolled…