Category Archives: sides and appetizers
Baked Carrots
One of the first dishes I remember making on my own was during my freshman year in college, baked carrots. About these ads
Slow Cooker Baked Beans
Who knew that following a recipe was so important? If you know me, I like to take a recipe and tweak it to my own liking, a little less sugar, a little more spices, substitutions based on whats available in my kitchen, and more. Funnily enough this mistake I made had nothing to do with substituting ingredients and all […]
Corn Bread
Its really fun having a husband who enjoys cooking almost as much as I do. Of course Nate usually does the “outdoor” cooking, you know grilling, anything over the camp fire and with our smoker. We actually do a lot of cooking indoors together as well, depending on what we’re making, but pizza, pasta, tacos, […]
Spinach Dip
One of our favorite places to “shop” is Costco. How is it that when you go to Costco with the plan to buy 1 thing, you end up buying way more than that and spending way too much money? Okay, in all honesty, since we started watching our budget and trying to save more we […]
Pasta Salad
My favorite candy in the whole wide world is skittles. Although most the time I prefer chocolate over fruity candy, I am always in the mood for skittles. Okay, I’m always in the mood for candy in general, but skittles are the best. I love all the different packages of skittles, crazy cores, original, tropical, […]
Onion Rings
One of my guilty pleasure foods is frozen corn dogs. Nate will eat them, but he doesn’t love them as much as I do. So after buying a box from Costco we have had them in our freezer for a long time. We have been trying to clean out our freezer some since there is […]
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 […]
BBQ Chicken Quesadillas
This is a post where I brag a little about my husband. Have I told you, how amazing my husband is? Well, its true. My husband, Nate, works full time, ie 40 hours a week, at a Residential Treatment Center. He’s the IT man. Meaning he fixes, computers, printers, phones and more. But along with […]
Grilled Teriyaki Turkey Meatballs
Did I ever mention, that for Nate’s birthday he got this amazingly nice and huge charcoal grill from his parents? Well, its awesome. And we love grilling. Who doesn’t? Nate will pretty much only grill with charcoal because of that great charcoal taste that the food gets, but if you like grilling with gas, we won’t judge you. Summer […]
Cheesy Grilled Squash
Before we left to go up to Seattle our garden was growing well. We hadn’t really gotten any produce from it (minus the 8 minuscule strawberries we got), but both types of our squash plants (zucchini and yellow) had a lot of blossoms blooming and probably 2 or 3 baby squash on most of the plants. We […]
Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes
4 cups thinly sliced potatoes (we used our mandolin) 3 TBS butter 3 TBS flour 1 1/2 cups milk 1 tsp salt 1 large dashe cayenne pepper 1 1/2 cups cheddar cheese, separated
Creamy Chicken Bacon Taquitos (Baked)
I put a chicken mixture in the crockpot, and when I got home I decided to make taquitos out of it. This recipe was inspired by my own delicious pork taquitos, our best bites chicken taquitos and six sisters chicken bacon ranch taquitos. They were delicious, so I hope you enjoy.
Easy Fruit Salad
A couple weeks ago we had a really fun activity for church. And since we are new in the area I told Nate that we had to go so that we could get to know some more people in our area. So the activity was called a progressive dinner. But basically we split up and […]
Salad for Two (Grilled Shrimp Citrus Salad)
Tuesday was Valentine’s Day. Around the Garrett home sometimes it is a big deal and sometimes it is just an ordinary day. Yesterday was closer to the later but with this salad I tried to make it somewhere in between. It is a salad but I believe a step above your ordinary salad. Let me tell […]
Pork Pot-stickers
Remember here when I talked about being on an Asian food kick for the week? Well, one of the recipes we made that week was for these pork pot-stickers. We decided to eat them as our main dish, but they would make a perfect appetizer or side dish as well. I know its probably too late to […]
Brisket Quesadillas with Mango Peach Sauce
I love cheese, but after a few experiences I have learned that I am not really a fan of what I would call “strong cheeses”. Bleu cheese. Goat cheese. Gouda. You name it, I don’t really like it. But I’m always willing to give everything a chance. One chance. So when this recipe called for […]
