This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! I purchased a produce combination box from my local wholesale produce supplier and among other great items, it contained 4 eggplant! I am not a real expert on cooking eggplant, I've only tried my hand at it a little bit. (Here is an eggplant lasagna I did a few YEARS ago!) But, I knew that Ratatouille is an eggplant dish. Two of my grandchildren actually sent me a video of themselves making it! For some reason that post never made it up here on the blog, but they are adorable and real Foodies at a young age! Thinking of these cuties made me think that I should give Ratatouille a try, but with a twist! My husband and I do like beef. (We recently purchased 1/2 a beef with Lindsey and her family!) So, not only did I want to use my eggplant, I wanted to use some of that delicious Montana beef! Also, I need to put a disclaimer out there, I've never actually tasted Ratatouille besides never having made it before! So, if you are looking for something very authentic, you are looking in the wrong place. But, if you want to use your eggplant in a tasty ratatouille-ish dish, and incorporate beef, then this recipe is for you. I did do a lot of research and tried to incorporate the seasonings and flavors used in the recipes I found.
Now that we are empty nesters, I still have the problem of making too much food for just my husband and myself. This recipe should feed us for the next couple of days. We aren't mad about it. Let me know if you give it a try! Or give these recipes a try:
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This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for any purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support! Do you see that beautiful girl in that picture above? That is Rachel and she is soon to be my daughter-in-law! We are so excited to have her in our family! Since she is from out of state, where her family threw her a bridal shower, we decided that she needed to have one here in her fairly new home state of Arizona, so Maddy took the lead and planned a shower for her, with Lindsey and I helping. It turned out so great!
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I love banana bread, but sometimes the baking time is a deterrent to making it. We have finally hit the triple digits in Phoenix a time or two, so I don't really want my oven on for that long. But, I had 3 very ripe bananas that I wanted to use up, plus I needed to take treat to a church activity. So, I came up with these Salted Caramel Banana Blondies!
There are a couple of secret ingredients that make these blondies so tasty:
Another great thing about this recipe is that it makes a big batch when you bake them in your half sheet pan. If you bake them in something smaller, add about 10 minutes to your bake time. I had plenty to take to the activity, plus leave some to enjoy at home!
Here are some other recipes you may enjoy:
This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! YUP! See all of those strawberries in that graphic above? They are some of the many that have been coming out of my strawberry patch! I am so happy with my strawberries this year. Here is why. Last year I put a few strawberry plants in my garden box. They began to produce a few strawberries, and just when they were ripe enough to pick, Maddy's puppy, Boots, ate them! At first I thought the birds had gotten them, so I covered them with netting to protect them. But, when I found the netting strewn all over my yard, I realized it was the dog. It was pretty funny actually, because he had nipped them off the stems very carefully exactly when they were ripe and very carefully! (He is a very smart dog who loves strawberries.) Needless to say, I didn't end up harvesting many strawberries last year. I decided that I needed a bigger strawberry patch. That way between the birds, the dogs and the bugs, I might still end up with some strawberries for the family to enjoy. Since strawberries reproduce very well on their own, I decided to try an experiment in my garden of wintering my existing plants over and allowing them to shoot out baby plants. I trimmed them back, taking off all of the dead or damaged foliage. I babied the babies. In the winter when we had some freezing weather, I covered them with sheets to keep the frost off of them. I fertilized them. I was determined to have a successful patch, something that has never before happened for me. Hallelujah! My efforts paid off and my patch of strawberries has more than doubled! Then, in the early Spring, the strawberry blossoms began to appear! These aren't just little bitty strawberries either! There have been some really big ones! Here are a couple of my first ones: Since this is Strawberry Month, and because I am using my strawberries almost daily, I thought I would share some delicious strawberry recipe ideas with you today. Here is a roundup!
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to eleven! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! Archives
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