Monday Menu: Cranberry Season Has Arrived

Pictured: Cranberry-Apple Sauce recipe can be found here.

Cranberries are on sale now, so it seemed a good time to re-up this recipe.  You can use sirloin steak, or ribeye or NY strip. Works well on chicken breasts, too.

My love of cranberries has been well documented here. So no wonder this is one of my favorite dinners. The potatoes are very creamy – you can make them more calorie friendly by reducing the amount of butter, you probably won’t miss it with the creamy dressing.

Monday Menu: Cookie Game Changer

And we are back!

Chocolate chip cookies were the first thing I ever baked, when I was about nine. So, I feel like over the years, I’ve perfected them – tweaking sugar ratios, adding dark chocolate chips, playing with different sizes.  This week, prompted by an email from King Arthur Baking, I took my cookie game up to 11.

Monday Menu: Meatball Subs

The meatballs and sauce can be prepared and frozen, in portions if you like, and used to make subs or serve over pasta.

A quick tip, cookie scoops make meatball production easier and quick.

This is a DOUBLE recipe that makes 8 to 10 subs, you can easily halve the ingredients or you can freeze extra meatballs and sauce for later.

Meatballs:

  • 2 lbs lean ground beef*
  • ½ cup Italian breadcrumbs
  • ½ onion, chopped
  • ½ cup milk
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tbsp grated parmesan
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp pepper
  • ½ tsp crushed garlic
  • ½ tsp oregano
  • ½ tsp basil

baking sheet

Monday Menu: Yup, That’s A Lot of Garlic

I know this sounds like a crazy recipe, but the Garlic, Garlic Chicken is a keeper.  The garlic roasts to a nice, nutty, sweet flavor, perfect with a slice of bread. A neighbor was overwhelmed with garlic this fall, so gifted me with a couple of large bulbs. And whole chickens were on sale, so it seemed like a perfect time to bring this recipe out again.

I first had it at friends’ house, and I was as skeptical as you are now, but trust me, it’s as yummy as it sounds crazy.