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Traci's Twice baked potatoes recipe

Traci's Twice baked potatoes recipe

Credit for these scrumptious twice baked potatoes with bacon and chives recipe goes to my oldest daughter who has started enj...

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corned beef and turkey Porcupine meatloaf and potatoes

corned beef and turkey Porcupine meatloaf and potatoes

What is a meatloaf, but a loaf of meat with things in it right? Well this one is chock full of things. Good things, that made fo...

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Oven bake mustard and parmesan pork chops

Oven bake mustard and parmesan pork chops

Mustard and parmesan baked pork chops, that's what's on the menu tonight. I have to admit that my 73.00 budget has been up...

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the food budget of a formerly sane woman

the food budget of a formerly sane woman

Today was grocery day, and I want to tell you how I plan to feed this large family  of 11 on the 73.00 we spent on groceries this week.  I ...

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bread pudding recipe

bread pudding recipe

INGREDIENTS * 6 slices toasted raisin bread * 2 tablespoons butter, melted * 1/2 cup raisins (optional) * 4 eggs, beaten * 2 cups milk...

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Rose Petal Jelly

Rose Petal Jelly

I made Rose petal jelly yesterday and it turned out great. It is fairly simple to make and even my kids loved it. here is the recipe: 1 cup ...

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Traci's Twice baked potatoes recipe




yummy twice baked potatoes, bacon and green onion twice baked potato recipe,


Credit for these scrumptious twice baked potatoes with bacon and chives recipe goes to my oldest daughter who has started enjoying cooking. Or maybe she just loves using my wonderful new cutting board a friend made for me. In any case we got to enjoy these beauties last night.  These twice baked potatoes are so good I ate 3, and this recipe is a keeper, and I'm perfectly ok with keeping traci cooking them next time too. She did an amazing job.

They outside skins had the perfect crunch to them, and the inside was cheesy and buttery and it had just the right amount of garlic goodness going on. The bacon and green onion brought it all together perfectly. I would eat these potatoes every night if I thought she would cook them for me every night.

I also think this recipe could be tweaked and used next time we make mashed potatoes too...




green onion, bacon, cheddar twice baked potatoes, cheesy twice baked potatoes recipe


Traci's Twice Baked Potatoes

6 large baking potatoes
olive oil (for rubbing over outside of potato for crisp skins)
2 1/2 tablespoons milk
2 tablespoons butter
1 1/4 cup sour cream
1 1/3 cup sharp Cheddar cheese, grated
1/2 tablespoon garlic powder
Salt and pepper
6 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
1/2 cup finely chopped green onion

Preheat oven to 400

Wash the potatoes and poke them with a fork is several places around the potato. 

Rub the potatoes with the olive oil and place them on a jellyroll pan or a large cookie sheet with a rim. 

Bake the potatoes whole for one hour, turning once halfway through baking.  Remove the potatoes from the oven and cut them in half lengthwise. 

 Reduce the temperature of the oven to 350 degrees F.

When the potatoes are cool enough to handle, scoop out the potato flesh into a large bowl. Add the milk, butter, sour cream, cheese, garlic powder, and salt and pepper to taste. Mash with fork or potato masher until it has a lumpy mashed potato consistency and all ingredients are mixed well

crunchy skins twice baked potatoes with cheesy mashed potatoes inside, twice baked potato goodness
also.. behold my awesome new cutting board

 Spoon the mashed potato mixture evenly into the hallowed out potato shells. Return the potatoes to the oven for 15 minutes. 

Remove from the oven and garnish with the bacon and green onion.

corned beef and turkey Porcupine meatloaf and potatoes







What is a meatloaf, but a loaf of meat with things in it right? Well this one is chock full of things. Good things, that made for a yummy dinner tonight. Cooking for a big family, is 1 part knowing how to cook, 1 part optical illusion, and 1 part being creative with what you found on sale this week, or whats about to go bad from last week. If you can master mixing the three and making something they will eat, then my friend you an conquer the world.

We have eat a lot of potatoes this week because they were on sale last week, I just finished up the last of the "2 five pound bags for $5.00" potatoes tonight.

I love this recipe because its one dish, the meat and potatoes are all cooked in the same dish in the oven. I love oven recipes in general because they don't require you to stand over them. But this is pretty simple.

The optical illusion part of cooking is making less look like more. Take meatballs, and meatloaf, meatloaf stretches farther than meatballs, at least here they do, these folks see a dish of meatballs and they get way more of the bite size balls than if its meatloaf shaped and they get a slice but for whatever reason the meatloaf looks bigger, fills a bigger space on the plate and makes them think they are getting more when they are actually taking a smaller serving. try it sometime. Cook meatballs one time, and meatloaf the next time and see which stretches farther. I'm not sure exactly why it works the way it works but it just does.

Speaking of meatballs, I came up with this recipe after reading a porcupine meatball recipe. I had to get creative with it because the grocery store is 25 minutes away and there is no air conditioner in the car and we are still suffering the sweltering heat of summer here. So, we had to use what dollar general had to offer when I discovered that I only had one package of ground turkey and not 2 like I thought I had. Dollar General is a short 10 minutes down the road and even me with one good eye can drive there if need be.

So tonight, corned beef ground turkey porcupine meatloaf became a thing, and it was a good thing. The critics eat it up. I served it with the potatoes and mustard greens and biscuits. Traci even made a cherry pie complete with home made crust to go with it.

traci's home made cherry pie


Before we get to the recipe lets talk meat to fat ratio. Any good meatloaf needs a good fatty meat, always but especially when cooking potatoes, and in the case rice in with it. the dry ingredients, the bread crumbs, the rice, the french fried onions, and the potatoes around the edges all need your loaf to have a good amount of juice or you will have a dry meatloaf. I added softened butter to this mixture.

Ok, with that said, lets get to the recipe.


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corned beef turkey porcupine meatloaf


(the meatloaf)

1 lb ground turkey
1 can corned beef
1/3 cup seasoned bread crumbs
1/4 cup french fried onions crushes
1/3 cup uncooked rice
garlic powder to taste
salt to taste
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1 egg
1/2 stick softened butter
3 tbsp chicken broth

(the sauce)

1 can Campbell's tomato soup
1 package ranch dressing powder
1/2 stick melted butter
2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tbsp brown sugar
2 tbsp Dijon mustard
salt to taste
2/3 cup chicken broth

(potatoes)

4 cups potatoes diced

For meatloaf mix all ingredients well and shape into a loaf in center of lightly greased large casserole dish

Cut potatoes and spread evenly around the edges of your meatloaf

Mix all sauce ingredients and pour over potatoes and on top of meatloaf this is your sauce and your glaze

cover tightly with tin foil and cook in a 350 degree oven for 1 hour 15 minutes then uncover and cook an addition 20 minutes let set for 10 minutes before serving.

meatloaf recipe, corned beef turkey rice meatloaf


When salting keep in mind that the corned beef, and the ranch powder, and the Worcestershire sauce all already have a good bit of salt in them so you wont need as much salt as you might with other meatloaf recipes.

Oven bake mustard and parmesan pork chops


budget eating feeding the masses pork chops


Mustard and parmesan baked pork chops, that's what's on the menu tonight. I have to admit that my 73.00 budget has been upped slightly, One of the fine young adults living here brought in some frozen veggies, cauliflower, okra, broccoli, green peas, and cauliflower, and a block of cheddar cheese, so that helps a good bit on feeding us through the week and adds im gonna say it adds about 15.00 to the expense of groceries this week, but still an exciting challenge to see if we can make it through the week feeding 11 people on $88.00
Tonight's meal is a little of the leftover buffalo pork bubble up, creamed corn that I already had on hand, broccoli and cheese, and baked mustard and parmesan pork chops. 

I regret not adding the broccoli to some potatoes to stretch them more, there is clearly not going to be enough of that but on a side note three of them aren't eating here tonight, and I know at least one of them doesn't like broccoli so I got that going for me. One is working tonight and usually grabs something on her break, another spent the day with her grandma and brought home a dinner plate of good ol' home cooked grandma food, and Clarissa the 3 year old is off having a world wind adventure with her other grandma and won't be home tonight.

In any case I think there is enough variety in there everyone will get something and life will remain good on the plantation. 
pork chops on a budget

The chops were from the tenderloin we caught on sale yesterday and had the butcher at bilo cut for us, He cut it into 2 roasts and these 12 chops. 

Now for what you came here for... 
The recipe...

If you recall, a few posts back I made my own homemade mustard. You can find that recipe here. Today I used it on these yummy pork chops.

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Parmesan Mustard Baked Pork Chops

I cooked 12 pork chops but ingredients are as with most of my recipes per your taste nothing is set in stone here..

I used the homemade mustard I whipped up the other day, but any coarsely ground or dijon mustard will work

1/3 cup mustard (homemade or dijon)
garlic powder to taste
lemon pepper to taste
salt to taste
1/3 to 1/2 cup parmesan cheese to taste
12 pork chops

In baking dish or cast iron skillet ( I used cast iron skillet) lightly grease dish and put pork chops into dish in a single flat layer

In mixing bowl mix all other ingredients and rub evenly into pork chops

cook covered for 40 minutes in a 350 degree oven then remove cover and bake another 15 minutes or so until top starts to brown.


The critics are loving it Ive already been complimented on them twice without me prodding them for a review, that's when I know I've did well..

What are you cooking tonight?



the food budget of a formerly sane woman

Today was grocery day, and I want to tell you how I plan to feed this large family  of 11 on the 73.00 we spent on groceries this week.  I contributed 51.00 to the grocery budget for the week, and one of the young adults living here threw in another 22.00 to make it happen this week.

What did we get for our 73.00 you ask?

3 cans Pilsbury grands biscuits
a whole tenderloin that we had the butcher cut into 2 roast and the rest pork chops that will feed us for 3 meals
a package of chicken wings 
a large bag of shredded cheddar cheese
2 packages american cheese singles
1 jar alfredo sauce (a little splurgy but they like buffalo chicken bubble up and i like them)
2- 5 lb bags of potatoes
2 bags frozen mustard greens
2 packages of boneless country ribs
1 red onion
2 jars mayo
2 bottles bacon ranch dressing

Now This doesn't seem like a lot to feed a family of 11 with but if you follow me through out the week I will post about each nights meal and we will together see If Ive managed for another week to make it all happen on the meagerest of budgets.. 

Tonight - Night #1 we have buffalo pork bubble up it is the same recipe as he buffalo chicken bubble up but with pork instead of chicken. The critics reported that they liked the chicken version better, but that this version was awesome too..

Here is the recipe

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Buffalo shredded pork Bubble Up
  • 2 can (12oz) refrigerated flaky pilsbury grand biscuits
  • 3 cups cooked shredded buffalo pork
  • shredded buffalo pork (i simmered my pork for about 3 hours in 1 cup franks red hot wing sauce and 1 pack ranch dressing powder let cool then shredded and return to juices stirring to mix it all up well)
  • 1/2 cup bacon ranch liquid salad dressing
  • 1 jar alfredo sauce
  • 2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
  • 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
Cut your biscuits in 4 pieces and place them in a mixing bowl, add to that half of the shredded mozzarella, the liquid ranch stir to coat pieces then spread evening in the bottom of a lightly greases casserole dish, on top of that add your shredded buffalo pork and the juices evenly top with remaining cheese and baked in a 375 degree oven for 30-35 minutes until cheese is bubbly and brown.. 


In other news it was a pretty busy day in the decal factory (by factory i mean small work area in my den) Here are some of the decals I'll be shipping off with the mail lady today. 


decal for car window, gray wolf decal with name or initials, spirit guide animal wolves

fishing decal, sportman decal, sportsman decal, sportsmen sticker vinyl

witch with striped leggings monogram vinyl decal sticker

The fish whisperer decal is quite popular I cut 4 of those yesterday and 2 the day before. It started as a design for the pocket are of a shirt for my son I had no idea it would take off like it has but Im proud of it. Maybe someday Ill have a decal factory (by factory i mean small shop in the middle of town, or a workshop here on the plantation at very least)


bread pudding recipe

INGREDIENTS

* 6 slices toasted raisin bread
* 2 tablespoons butter, melted
* 1/2 cup raisins (optional)
* 4 eggs, beaten
* 2 cups milk
* 3/4 cup white sugar
* 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon ( I use jamaican allspice instead of cinnamon)
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract


DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Break bread into small pieces into an 8 inch square baking pan. Drizzle melted butter or margarine over bread. If desired, sprinkle with raisins.
3. In a medium mixing bowl, combine eggs, milk, sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla. Beat until well mixed. Pour over bread, and lightly push down with a fork until bread is covered and soaking up the egg mixture.
4. Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes, or until the top springs back when lightly tapped.



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Rose Petal Jelly

I made Rose petal jelly yesterday and it turned out great. It is fairly simple to make and even my kids loved it.

here is the recipe:
1 cup edible rose petals
1 1/2 cups water
juice of 1 lemon
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 package Sure-Jell pectin
Combine the rose petals, 3/4 cup water and lemon juice in a blender. Blend until smooth. Slowly add the sugar and blend well.
Bring the remaining 3/4 cup water to a boil in a small saucepan. Stir in the pectin and boil for 1 minute, stirring constantly.
Pour the hot mixture into the blender with the other ingredients and blend 1 minute. Pour into sterilized jars and seal.

above is a picture of the petals boiling. The smell was devine..

this is a picture of the jelly after I put it in jars

and today I got to sample it and this is it on a sandwhich.

It was delightful. I want to make more to share at christmas time. Maybe in smaller jars. I would recommend rose jelly to anyone.

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