Author Archives: Ellen Garrett
Carrot Cake Muffins
Mom writer here. I know you haven’t seen much of me lately. Perhaps I have been too busy, too distracted, too lazy or too uninspired. But today I have a wonderful muffin recipe for you. About these ads
Neapolitan Pancakes
Here I am (Aimee) reposting a delicious recipe that my mom posted over 2 years ago. When we first started this blog we were just posting recipes we liked, mostly for each other as I don’t think we had anyone else reading. At that point we weren’t taking any pictures of our recipes. Even when […]
Simple Fresh Garden Salad
Tonight I was excited to make a salad from ingredients taken out of my little garden. My garden is small but I have kale, peas, spinach, romaine lettuce, and mint growing in it that were all used in the salad. I was a little concerned about using the kale in the salad, especially worried about […]
Chicken Fajitas
I used to make chicken fajitas quite a bit when Anthony and Aimee were growing up. Then I got distracted or made them one day and decided I didn’t really like them any more, I know, crazy huh!?! But last night Craig was commenting how many mini peppers we had still in the fridge and […]
Beans, Rice and Ham Soup
By now your Easter ham may be all eaten up and gone but at our household we are still enjoying it and even have a couple of baggies full in the freezer. We certainly have enjoyed it in sandwiches with mustard but this year I choose to do so much more and perhaps a little […]
Strawberry Balsamic Black Pepper Jam
In California right now you are seeing strawberries everywhere; in the stores, fruit stands, and fields. It is the perfect time to buy strawberries.
Cannoli
For Craig’s birthday last year, Aimee and Nate presented him with a beautiful Italian Cookbook all written in Italian. Their next gift to him was a scale with grams because all the Italian recipes used grams in measuring. This past Christmas they gave him cannoli forms. Do you see the trend? Yes, we love Italian […]
Tuna Casserole
Aimee and Nate came to visit us in California for the long weekend over President’s Holiday. What a wonderful time we had together. We love being together, and I love having them here. It was short, but we filled it full of activities. We got to play games, visit the beach, they were so happy […]
Pasta a la Marta
Have I mentioned before that I am a host mom to a foreign exchange student from Italy, Marta. Marta is a very nice, really sweet young lady and we are delighted to have her in our home. We had been bugging her to fix us an authentic Italian dinner and finally convinced her to do […]
Roasted Vegetables
Have you ever eaten a parsnip before? In my 52 years I don’t think I had, but I have been seeing them all over pinterest and so I broke down and picked up 2. Parsnips look like white carrots for the most part, perhaps taste like that too. I prepared my parsnips for this recipe […]
Homemade Chocolate Caramel Ice Cream
Jan. 20, 2013 – It is 75 plus degrees in San Diego/Fallbrook, CA. That is what happens here. We freeze for our winter of 2 weeks and then summer decides to come visit again. I still haven’t gotten used to it. And after walking around all bundled up because it is only 55 outside then […]
Pork Tenderloin
I actually cooked a few new dishes this week and they all were wonderful and delicious and my family enjoyed them all. So I am so excited to share them with you. I will admit none of them are original but I did change them up a bit to make them my own. Sometimes things […]
Pasta al Forno Craig style
Pasta al Forno just means baked pasta (so any pasta, sauce, meat, vegetable combo baked would qualify). Craig style means my very dear husband Craig created this recipe and prepared it for our dinner tonight. He wants to share that any pasta noodle like gemelli, penne, or macaroni would work. You can also use your […]
Peppermint Christmas Cookies
This recipe can only be made with Christmas music playing in the background, the whole mood needs to be set. While baking these cookies I not only dreamed of a “White Christmas” but of the day when I can bake cookies with my dear little granddaughter. She would be the best helper I am sure; […]
Jungle Cookies (Cranraisin Macademia Nut White Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies)
So Aimee will continue to give you the healthy food and I will post the sweets, or it seems so. I feel like all I make any more is cookies, cake, candy, etc. I do actually cook something healthy every once in a while, it is just that I have had a lot of activities […]
Cilantro Mayonnaise
I promised you this recipe. Two weeks ago I went to my Relief Society “Super Saturday”, it was a lot of fun. One of my favorite things I took home from the event was this recipe for cilantro mayonnaise, it was delicious. It was fresh and different. I enjoyed it on fresh-baked bread and on […]
