Joy in the Kitchen!

Celebrating special days can be so much fun in the kitchen!    St. Patrick's Day is an easy one especially if you're not trying to do an authentic meal.  I made Corned Beef and Cabbage last year and I was the only one who liked it.  This year we'll be more relaxed....  and have fun with GREEN .  I've got to stay at home today as I have someone coming to pick something up.  I don't know a time, so I'm planning on needing to be here all day.  THEREFORE, I need to work with things I have on hand.  (seeing as I don't always plan ahead lol) I found a recipe for Colcannon.    You can find the description and some history on it here ...   and I'm using a recipe I found for Colcannon, here .   I have cabbage, potatoes, bacon & onion on hand - sounds easy!  I think I'll just do either pork chops or onion burgers as our main dish, a tossed GREEN salad and GREEN beans to go with it.  Who cares about needi...

When we were discussing our choices of what to make for Kids in the Kitchen, McKay (13) suggested making this Bruschetta he had seen in a Taste of Home magazine. I LOVE Taste of Home...  I've found some really good recipes there, and even better, I love to just thumb through the pages and look at the pictures. LOL!  I told McKay he could try it, but we probably wouldn't list it with the Kids in the Kitchen recipes. It is quite a bit more involved than I wanted our Kids recipes to be.  McKay did this pretty much by himself.  I only gave clarification & a little advice.  It is WONDERFUL! I can't post the recipe, but you can find it on this page at Taste Of Home .  We made a few changes.  These were:  we used french bread instead of italian,  We didn't have fresh basil so we used dry. (it was yummy, but would have been even better with fresh!), we also used regular slicing tomatoes instead of plum tomatoes. (it's what we had on hand. :)...