Well today my family had a surprise birthday party for my aunt at olive garden

It was lunch time so I decided to do the soup salad and bread sticks lunch

I already know that I love their salad and who doesn't like bread sticks so all that was to decide was which soup to try

I decided to so the Tuscana which was a light sausage and potato soup with kale

I was actually going to try another since its endless but I filled up on so much salad and because this soup was so good I ate it all and left no room to try another

I guess next time ill have to take it a little slower lol

Tonight it was my papa's turn to cook

I had bought some country pork ribs a few days ago and I'm not the best at cooking ribs yet so I let him do it

He also made some delicious dill potatoes to go with the ribs

He made these by cooking off some prosciutto and onions and boiling the potatoes

He them sauteed them with the onion mixture and seasoned with salt and pepper and of course dill

Delicious every bit of it

I really do love these days when someone else cooks for me

I think my parents will do just fine without me

Johnny Cakes

So tonight I was in the mood again to experiment so I decided to try and make my version of Johnny cakes

See at work we have these things called johnny cakes which are basically little honey corn meal pancakes that we serve with our pulled pork

I absolutely love these things and I just wanted to see if there was an easier way to make them at home

Well I think I figured it out

After some trial and error I think I got it

But the thing is I don't have measurements exactly

But here is basically how I made them

I mixed a little pancake mix with some corn meal

not exactly equal a little more corn meal

Then I added some water, milk, sugar, honey, and a bit of melted butter

Now these things are a little finicky to cook so you kind of have to practice to get it right but they are definitely delicious and make an awesome breakfast or a side dish for dinner

or even a snack either way these things are AMAZING!

Tuna Salad

So lately I have really been wanting to make some tuna salad

But unfortunately we had no tuna

But the other day when we went to Sam's I had to get some

So today I decided to make my tuna salad for lunch

Now normally tuna salad is made simply with canned tuna, mayo, and pickle relish

But I decided to jazz mine up a bit and this is how I did it

I started with 1 can of chunk light tuna and I added to it...

(note: I don't have measurements because this was an experimental recipe)

Mayo, dijon mustard, lemon juice, salt, and pepper

And I didn't have any pickle relish so I decided to substitute some of my pickled Cherry peppers

Its basically a hot pepper relish so I figured it would be pretty good and substitute in pretty well

Well that's about it
This is a great healthy lunch and its perfect with some crackers or as a sandwich with whole wheat bread and a little lettuce and tomato

delicious

Tonight it was just my mom and I for dinner

My dad had a unexpected meeting so I had to come up with something simple to make for just my mom and I

So I decided to make a frittata

Just a simple one made of what I found in the frig

which happened to be some leftover Italian sausage, bell pepper, some red onion, basil, Parmesan, salt, and pepper

Oh and of course GARLIC

pretty simple and this is definitely one of those recipes were you can make as much of as little as you want depending on how any you are feeding

So my mom never feels like just the frittata is enough so I made some hash browns as well to go with it

That too was easy enough

simple grate a few potatoes squeeze out the extra water add to a HOT pan greased with a little olive oil and butter season with some salt pepper and garlic

and cook the crap out of it until golden brown and crisp on both sided

These leftovers make a great breakfast or brunch!

Alright so today I just wanted a little snack before I went to work and I'm a huge lover of fruit and what makes a better snack than fruit?

In my opinion not much and this is probably one of my very favorite fruit snacks

Apples and peanut butter

ok so you way be thinking

WHAT? not caramel

well you see I never have the caramel dip at home so one day I decided to pair one of my favorite fruits with my favorite things ever!

peanut butter

and it was delicious

thus birthing this snack

But you all know I'm pretty nuts about peanut butter and I like it on everything

so you try it and you be the judge

Today my mom and I had to do all kinds of shopping in beavercreek and we really needed to go to Sam's to get some of those things we go through so fast it only makes since to buy in bulk

so any way we both decided that for dinner it would be good to just buy one of their delicious roast chickens

so when we finally got home we decided to just have salad with the chicken or in my cases chicken in my salad

for my salad I used the spring mix with a delicious Parmesan and herb vinaigrette

and of course the chicken

fantastic