SAILOR WIFE

It's the day after Thanksgiving and if you need something light & spicy to get you moving after that turkey snooze, I've got you covered with this Turkey Tortilla Soup. Happy Black Friday Shopping or Christmas Movie Watching! I'm heading very far into the wilderness (Home Depot) to get a Christmas tree! Turkey Tortilla Soup: Ingredients: 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 yellow onion, diced 2 jalapenos, finely diced 1 tablespoons cumin 2 tablespoons chili powder 2 tablespoons dri

Here it is... Your Everything-But-The-Turkey-And-The-Kitchen-Sink Thanksgiving Menu! Breakfast! Appies! Sides! Desserts! a.k.a. all the best things about Thanksgiving. I’m not cooking for Thanksgiving this year because my kitchen currently looks like this: Well that's what it looked like when I started this post, now it looks like this! But last year I had 25 people over for Thanksgiving dinner... so here’s all the things I cooked + a few more I’ve added this year. I’ve also

If there's one common issue for everyone’s Thanksgiving menus- it’s oven space. Since I currently don’t have ANY oven space, I went looking for a dessert I could have on the grill. Hello, cranberry & peach cobbler. It’s a rustic dessert that you just dump & grill. cranberry & peaches sizzling away... biscuit dough getting dropped in... Cranberry & Peach Cobbler with Orange Maple Whipped Cream: Ingredients: for the cranberry and peach filling: 4 tablespoons butter 2 (12oz) bag

Pecan Pie Pie Crust: 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup vegetable shortening or lard 3/4 cup salted butter, cut into pieces 1 egg, lightly beaten 1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar Filling: 1 cup granulated sugar 3 tablespoons brown sugar 1/2 teaspoons salt 1 cup corn syrup (light or dark) 1/3 cup melted salted butter 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 3 whole eggs beaten 1 cup (heaping) chopped pecans Directions: Make the pie crust: Mi

Spicy Sausage, Egg & Potato Casserole Ingredients: 1 pound mild ground pork sausage 1 pound hot ground pork sausage 6 slices of white bread (I've also used Hawaiian sweet rolls, cut in half!) 4 tablespoons butter, softened 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard 1 onion chopped 1 (30-ounce) package frozen hash browns 1 cup cheddar cheese, shredded 6 large eggs 2 cups milk 1 tablespoon parsley 1 teaspoon paprika 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 1teaspoon pepper pickled ja

Move over, caviar, there was no bigger delicacy in my childhood than pigs-in-a-blanket. Breakfast sausage links, wrapped in warm, fluffy pancakes, and then dipped in maple syrup. This was Saturday morning heaven. Fast forward 20 years and I still love all those flavors; so when I was thinking about how I could make cinnamon rolls a little more savory, enter sausage. Crumbled sausage is rolled into the cinnamon rolls and all topped with a maple syrup glaze. Pigs-In-A-Blanket,

I will eat quiche for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks... it's never the wrong time to have a little quiche. It's good hot, cold, or room temperature... so there's never the wrong temperature to eat it at either. Best of all, it's the ultimate "use these ingredients up today" recipe. Throw almost anything in a quiche and it's good, but my favorite combination is sausage, mushroom & spinach... Sausage, Mushroom & Spinach Quiche Ingredients: 1 pound Italian sausage 1/2 onio

My aunt JoAnn planned to bring these to Thanksgiving last year and she keep calling them "chili cheese grits" on the phone. I pictured her opening a can of chili and dumping the can on some grits, which I am into, but I didn't know if that was a Thanksgiving dish??? Come to find out these babies are GREEN chili cheese grits and they. are. amazing. Green Chili Cheese Grits Ingredients: 3 cups water 1 teaspoon salt 1 garlic clove, minced 1 cup quick-cooking grits 1/2 cup butter

Is there anything more divisive than a debate over a cornbread recipe??? I think not. I personally like mine light, fluffy & sweet. Chase, on the other hand, likes it crunchy & not sweet (the horror!). Very tough conversation for us to have over here. HOWEVER, this skillet cornbread is kind of like a compromise because it's a crunchier textured cornbread with a crispy crust, but then I dump approximately 1 gallon of honey on my piece, so it also can also be sweet if need-be (

SAUSAGE STUFFING IS THE BEST PART OF THANKSGIVING. Normally I would leave it at that & "RECIPE HERE." But I have a little more explaining to do. Last year, due to lack of oven space, I needed to cook the stuffing in a crockpot. There's two distinct things to remember when cooking stuffing in a crockpot: 1) you need to reduce the liquid by about a third, and, 2) you need eggs to bind the stuffing together. Therefore, it's important to follow a "crockpot" stuffing recipe, so he