Menu for Week Starting 5/23/2016

This week we are keeping things a little closer to home as regards our culinary adventures are concerned. We really enjoy grilling so hopefully we will be able to pull it off. We have a lot of spring weather forecasted. Although we have a lot of new recipes, for this site, we are using recipes we know well and keeping the menu simple so that we can more easily adjust as needed.

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Guess #whatsfordinner tonight 5/23/2016 its #italian

The family loves Alfredo. Tonight we decided to make our own. The store bought stuff just doesn’t compare. When you make your own you can adjust it to fit your taste. If you look a the picture above you will see that in tonight’s version there doesn’t seem to be much sauce but it does have all the flavor. When we made this version of

Tortellini Alfredo

We love Alfredo. Usually we ‘cheat’ and buy store bought just because.

Funny thing is, you don’t really save much time doing that. Alfredo is so easy and the home made version is so much better.

Give it a go and see if you don’t agree

Spice – Allspice substitute #cooking

I can remember as a child being at the grocery store with my mother while she was looking for Allspice to use in some recipe. Being that young and seeing all those bottles of spices I can remember thinking, “Why are there so many bottles? If you have ‘All-Spice’ can’t you use that for everything?