Pot Roast

total comfort food. Pot roast seasoned well. put in a crock pot and covered in potatoes and carrots. I use can gravy as the liquid to make everything a bit more yummy

splinter pizza

this is one of Cody's childhood meals that he made for me

english muffins, pizza sauce, pepperoni, mushrooms, cheese, olives and then more cheese

10 minutes in 400 degree oven

Tator Tot cassarol

brown the ground beef. mix with a bag of frozen vegetables, a can of cream of mushroom soup and some shredded cheese

then top with frozen tator tots. 30 minutes in a 450 oven

Thanksgiving dinner

Cody made this while I worked

Chiken soup

we like to cook once and be able to eat again sometime later in the week

Beef Stew

more classic Mid-western yummyness

the gathering of the goods

cooking the meat

everyone in the pool!

and the nice red wine blend to go with it

Breakfast

sometimes we just need simple comfort food to make that bad day go away. Biscuits with sausage gravy and scrambled eggs.

Potato soup

with the corned beef and cabbage leftovers I always make potato soup

boil the potatoes, drain, the put in lots of cream, cheese and leftovers stir to warm everything through

corned beef and cabbage

I make this in the crockpot.  Start the corned beef and potatoes first thing in the morning. the corned beef never comes with enough spice so I always add more (Penzeys Spices to the rescue!). Also instead of water, I make mine happy in a pool of  Guinness. At the last two hours of cooking is when I put the cabbage in, two hours is enough to steam the greens perfectly.

Dads Meatballs

Growing up this used to be a dinner that me and my Dad would make together. I used to roll out the meatballs when I got home from school and then would stir the rice as he cooked.

then the pineapple juice was mixed with some secrets and tossed with green pepper

finished bowl of yummy

and the for desert I made German Chocolate cake

Scallops

this was us working together in the kitchen. Scallops, with green pepper and mushrooms

decided that we needed some couscous to go with

finished bowl

and our wine

Cody favorites

this was a total northern midwest comfort food

pork chop and mashed taters

pistachio cupcakes

one of our first wines we shared, needless to say a few bottles have been bought

Summer 2014

I have been taking a few pics, decided to put them all in one post.

Beef Fajita

Chicken Fajita

Pasta bowl..if I remember right Cody did the sauce from scratch

New Life

This is still going to be my food blog. I started it out as a way to show excess and decadence in life. Since then my life has changed so drastically. Its still going to be food for even as though things have changed, whenever I get a bit of extra money I tend to spend on a bottle of wine or something to make in the kitchen. Now I have found someone who enjoys cooking and drinking the said wine with me. Welcome to our way and I hope you Enjoy the Good Life with us.