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Traditional Goulash & A Recipe Round-Up

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Traditional Goulash & A Recipe Round-Up

Everyone loves a good classic recipe and that’s exactly what you’ll find with this goulash round-up!  It happens to be one of R’s favorite food, so during the colder months here in Iowa we eat it frequently!

Variations on Goulash

I traveled to Australia in college and I got the privilege of staying in a lot of homes (host families) during my tour with the Castle Singers of Wartburg College.   While staying in Canberra (their capital) I was placed in a home of German immigrants.  They immigrated to Australia in the 60’s and still spoke German in their home.  Their accents were so thick that it made it hard to understand some times.  They were great people (even though our host-dad did think the answer for everything was a little “vhisky (whisky)”.  Our second night with them our host-mom asked if we liked Goulash!  A home cooked meal just like mom made sounded so good, but little did I know at that point in my life that not everyone made Goulash the same way.  Imagine my surprise when we sat down for supper and I was served something similar to THIS over noodles! While it was good (hers had quite a bit of a spice) it definitely wasn’t “like mom makes it”!  So, what better than a Goulash round-up with all these thoughts floating in my head?

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Beer Soaked Pork Chops

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Beer Soaked Pork Chops

Beer, pork…hello? How can that not equal good? The other morning I set out with a package of frozen boneless pork rib eyes and knew that I didn’t want to do our normal grilling (grill with Cavender’s seasoning) and wondered what I could come up with fast (I needed to leave for work in a matter of 5 minutes).  These Beer Soaked Pork Chops seemed to come together on their own!  I looked in my fridge and cupboards and decided what the heck, let’s give this a try!

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5 from 2 votes

Beer Soaked Pork Chops

A delicious and easy marinade for a pork chop!
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Marinade, Pork

Ingredients

  • 2 Boneless Pork Chops
  • 8 oz lime flavored beer
  • garlic powder
  • onion powder
  • salt
  • pepper

Instructions

  • Pour the beer into a shallow dish and season with garlic and onion powder, salt, & pepper. Place pork chops in the mixture and allow to marinate for at least 5 hours.
  • Grill to an internal temperature of 165 degrees.
  • Let rest for 5 minutes before serving
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Shredded Beef Tostadas

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Shredded Beef Tostadas

I’m obsessed with these Shredded Beef Tostadas.

A couple of weeks ago I asked some of my blogging friends for recipes using roasts. You see, we get beef a half a cow at a time from farmers that we know well. We have it taken directly from their farm to our favorite locker (Lewright Meats in Eagle Grove, Iowa) and then it all comes home and fits (almost perfectly) in our upright freezer!  For some reason we seem to have a lot of “extra” roasts, so I’ve been trying different things from Pepsi Roast (it was pretty tasty) to other recipes that were not so much! (That one with the red wine, gak!)

Anyway, Jenny from In the Kitchen With Jenny was kind enough to share her Tostada recipe with me!  (You can find her recipe HERE!)  Now, mine is not hers!  Hers inspired mine, but I will admit that I don’t keep a lot of spices in the house and didn’t have the majority of what she used to make hers, so I just went with the general idea and came up with my version of Shredded Beef Tostadas.

 

Shredded Beef Tostada
Shredded Beef Tostada

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Momma Jo’s Lasagna: A Family Favorite Recipe

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As a Midwesterner, we show our love with food!  And for us, love means Momma Jo’s Lasagna. 

For special events like Valentine’s Day I always like to cook for T.  His favorite meal is lasagna and my mom’s recipe is his favorite version of that.

The Recipe

When I first started dating T he insisted that all lasagna was equal. I kept arguing this was simply not true. He was famous for opening a jar of sauce, throwing in some hamburger and layering it with some noodles, baking it and calling it lasagna. I FINALLY got him to my mom’s house to have her lasagna and he’s never looked back! Continue “Momma Jo’s Lasagna: A Family Favorite Recipe”

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Easy Bar Recipe & A Mom’s Cheat Sheet for Feeding a Crowd

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Alright ladies, we’ve all been there before, right? You get the note or phone call that tells you the good news: You’ve been volunteered to bring snacks or treats for the next 4H club meeting (or girl scouts, an event at school, etc). YAY! The world rejoices that you get to add this to your long list of “to dos” this week. Oh wait, maybe the rest of the world rejoices while mom’s around the world grumble! Well ladies, I have a short-cut, a cheat sheet, that will make you look like you slaved for hours in the kitchen!

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Meal Planning – Smothered Ribeye Steak

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Last weekend I was feeling adventurous. I wanted to try my hand at a few things and test some things out. I had thawed out some ribeye steaks and bought baby red potatoes at the store because those are a favorite of T’s. My goal was to recreate a summer-time meal of steak and roasted potatoes. I looked through my recipe box and decided to combine a couple different things to come up with a marinade of sorts for the steak.  Here is what I came up with!

The way our life works, sometimes I have the time to play with recipes, create recipes, cook, and baked.  Sometimes, I’m merely surviving.  Thankfully, there are always times here and there between our busy schedules that allow me to let this part of my creative brain run wild!

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Twice Baked Potatoes: A Classic

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Twice Baked Potatoes: A Classic

Nothing is more classic Iowa than a grilled ribeye.  Nothing pairs with that ribeye better than a twice baked potato.  When it is nice we love to pair grilled meat and a classic recipe like Twice Baked Potatoes together.

Twice Baked Potatoes

When I married T, I learned his love for twice baked potatoes.  His love ran so deep that for several years after we got married, his grandma made him a pan of twice baked potatoes for his birthday!  That had been the tradition for many years!  As she aged, I took over the responsibility of making the potatoes.

The Recipe

The first time I had ever made them they turned out great, so that’s the recipe that I’ve always stuck with.   Here’s what I came up with!

Twice Baked Potatoes
Author: Katy Flint
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Serves: 8 potatoes
A tasty, rich, creamy potato side!
Ingredients
  • 4 baking potatoes
  • olive oil
  • salt
  • pepper
  • onion powder
  • 3/4 cup sour cream
  • 2T milk
  • 3T butter
  • 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
  • 4 strips bacon, crumbled
Instructions
  1. Begin by halving the potatoes and brushing the skin with olive oil and sprinkling with salt.
  2. Place cut side down in an olive oil brushed baking pan.
  3. Bake the potatoes at 350 until soft.
  4. Remove and cool the potatoes enough to be able to handle.
  5. Scrape the inside of each potato half out and put in a mixing bowl.
  6. Combine the potatoes, butter, milk, sour cream, pepper, crumbled bacon, and shredded cheddar and mix well.
  7. Fill the potato boats with the potato filling and place in a 30 oven and bake for 20-30 minute until heated through.

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Rotel Hotdish: A One Pan Meal

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Rotel Hotdish: A One Pan Meal

Rotel Hotdish is an oldie but goodie in our home and has previously been here on the blog as one of my very first recipes.  Because of this, it was rough around the edges and so I knew it was time for a refresh and update…not only to the pictures, but to the recipe as well.

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The boys (all three of them) in my house are picky.  As a result, when I find a recipe that is a hit in our house, it becomes a staple.  This One-Pan Rotel Hotdish is one of those! While, I don’t like to eat the same thing over and over and over (unless it’s a good brownie and milk), T eats the same things over and over!!  As a result, I’ve been making this for a couple years now and while the original recipe was a great Pinterest find, I have tweaked it to make it my own!

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Tasty Tuesday: Cinnamon Swirl Banana Bread

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Tasty Tuesday: Cinnamon Swirl Banana Bread

Last Saturday night at 10PM (don’t ask, that’s a whole other topic) I was scrubbing my glass top stove and could smell the aging bananas sitting next to it.  So, first thing on my agenda on Sunday (after coffee and chocolate chip pancakes, of course) was to “do something” with said bananas.  I love banana bread, I love banana bars, but wanted something different.  So, I took to my trusted Pinterest account and found a recipe for Cinnamon Swirl Banana Bread from “Lovin From The Oven“.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! Continue “Tasty Tuesday: Cinnamon Swirl Banana Bread”

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Taco Soup

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Taco Soup

The weather is turning more like fall and it’s cooling off! This time of year I always think of the yummy foods that I’ve “neglected” or opted not to eat all summer.  Soups, stews, roasts, cream based casseroles…all those types of things.  One of our favorites throughout the fall and winter is Taco Soup and it’s so easy and so yummy!  It can be made up and put in the crock pot on low for a half day or all day.  Or, you can mix it up and eat it shortly after!  The greatest thing for us (other than it being super yummy)is that it makes a big batch and freezes well, so we can have it for lunches later!  I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

taco soup

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