Italian Sausage with Roasted Balsamic Vegetables

With Veteran’s Day and then a SNOW DAY (yes, a real snow day) now behind us I can finally get back to posting.  It is hard to write with my children around.  That is mostly my fault because I love having them home so I tend to want to spend all my time with them….

Berry Cream Cheese French Toast Casserole

We love breakfast for dinner.  I had been planning on making this for a couple of days.  I just kept forgetting to put it together first thing in the morning so that it had at least 8 hours to sit before I cooked it.    I finally got around to making it and we were all…

Loaded French Fry Casserole with Buffalo Chicken

I am still in a comfort food mood.  It has now been raining for 7 days with occasional breaks but overall it is cold, rainy and well, just plain icky out.  My comfort foods are meatloaf, mashed potatoes and anything with tons of melted cheese and bacon. This fits the last group.   It was so…

Ravioli Casserole

Time seems to be slipping away lately.  I need to stretch the 24 hour days into 30.  But, since I don’t think that is going to happen I need to work smarter not harder. So, to that this uses frozen ravioli with a homemade sauce.  Yes, you can used jarred sauce or whatever you like…

Smoked Sausage with Pasta

  I think I am now past all the computer glitches and malfunctions.  It has been a maddening 2 weeks trying to get it all turned around.  Just when you think you have it all something else “pops-up.”  Ugh! So I am still on the comfort food theme for dinners.  Tax season has 5 days…

Beef Stroganoff – Hamburger Helper Style

A few weeks ago they had beef bottom roasts on sale at the grocery store.  I bought three and was going to cut one up for stir fry or stews.  When I started cutting though it I saw that this was going to be futile.  I had a couple handfuls of bits and pieces when…

Apple Pie Praline French Toast Casserole

This was an interesting day.  I had been planning on making French Toast for quite a few days now but I just never got around to buying the apple pie filling until today.  While I was at the store I saw pecans.  I love pecans but rarely buy them because they are so expensive.  But,…

Meatball Sub Casserole with Garlic Bread

Things lately have been crazy in our house and I LOVE when I can find meals that look great and seem fairly easy to make.  When I saw this recipe on Pinterest it looked delicious and seemed far to easy.  Meatballs, sauce, cheese and bread.  Okay but will they eat it? I made a few…

Buffalo Chicken Lasagna

We love lasagna, well except my son who detests ricotta cheese.  I read this take on lasagna and thought it sounded like a perfect fall evening meal for our family. Being from Western New York we LOVE Buffalo chicken wings.  Actually all kinds of wings.  Buffalo (medium), Country Sweet (go Rochester!) and Barbecue are among…

Chili Cheese Frito Casserole

This dish was a part of a joke in my family.  When anyone celebrates a 40th birthday party in my group of friends we celebrate by throwing them some outrageous “surprise” party.  For one friend who is an English teacher we had bad grammar and spelling everywhere.  Her cake read “Hapee Fourtieth Burfday.”  Another friend…

Crunchy Chicken Casserole

Well, I guess September is going to be a month of chicken and ground beef dinners.  Just completed our monthly shop (yes, I only shop once a month except for fresh produce and dairy).   This week the best sales were on ground beef and chicken so several packages of each were just frozen. I cooked…

Stove-Top Tamale Pie Skillet Dinner

School starts next week and the weather has definitely been cooler here lately.  I sat looking out the window before dinner last night and noticed that the leaves of the Elm tree outside our house are just starting to turn.  I can’t believe that the kids have been on summer vacation for 11 weeks. As…