Now I haven’t made any of these, but I am in need of some new ideas. So, these are the ones I’ve found that I’m planning to try out soon.
1. Chocolate Cherry Cake from Brenda at Coffee, Tea, Books and Me (who shares my reason for celebrating at this particular time of year)
2. Sweet Sour Meatloaf from Norma at Collecting My Thoughts
3. Pumpkin Bread Pudding from The Anchoress. I’ll probably save this recipe for autumn, the time for pumpkin.
4. Sweet and Sour Meatballs and Cherry Crockpot Cobbler from Dawn at By Sun and Candlelight Dawn always has such wonderful posts about homemaking and homeschooling and organization and loving life.
5. The winner of Rachel Held Evans’ Recipe Contest of Biblical Proportions: Medallions and Carrots It’s actually Pork and Carrots, and I think my family would like it because it’s a bit sweet. We’re all sugar addicted.
6. Gingery Marinated Beef Cubes from The Reading Zone Sometimes in addition to all the yummy books and teaching tips, Sarah includes a “slice of life”, which is where this recipe idea comes from.
7-12. Cranberry Ketchup.
Wisconsin Cheese Soup.
Spinach Lasagne.
Surprising Chili
Cheeseburger Soup
Strawberry soup
All from The Common Kitchen. A lot of the Headmistress’s recipes are way too “healthy” or labor intensive for me, but the above look just right, veggies and all that good stuff, but easy and tasty, too.
13. Recipe for a Sweet Smelling House from Carol MagistraMater.
14. Best Scones Ever from LiterariTea
15. Fruit Crisp from Like Mother, Like Daughter. Actually, I’ve made lots of fruit crisp, but Aunt Leila suggests making the crisp part ahead and freezing. I like that idea.
16. Our Favorite Potato Soup from Melissa Wiley Melissa says she’s a “disorganized cook”, like me! So her recipe should work perfectly in our disorganized, soup-loving house.
17. Spicy Lentil Meatball Soup from Violet at Promptings.
18. Winter Fudge Cake from Farm School
19. Moo-Shu Pork from Jessica Snell at Homemaking through the Church Year. Jessica is a lovely and inspiring Anglican writer, homemaker, and mom.
20. Root Beer Bundt Cake from Girl Detective. I’ve made 7-up Cake and Coke Cake, but never root beer. Girl Detective, by the way, not only reads and reviews great books; she also bakes bodacious birthday cakes. I am much too lazy to go to this much work for a birthday cake, even though I love my urchins very much.
21. Pumpkin Rolls from Sheila at Book Journey. I’m sensing a pumpkin, soup, chocolate theme in the recipes that appeal to me. Sheila’s blog is is lovely place for readers and bloggers and writers to meet together and discuss books, maybe over a slice of pumpkin roll.
22. White Chicken Chili from Hope Is The Word. I made this on Sunday, July 1, and we all enjoyed it very much. I wanted to add some corn to the recipe, but I didn’t have any.
23-24. Jama Rattigan at Jama’s Alphabet Soup is all about food and fun and books and celebration, so I found a couple of recipes there that I’d like to try
Black-eyed Pea Salad Medley.
Tracie’s Cheatin’ Shells
25. Potato Casserole from My Friend Amy.
26. Corn Salad from Heather at Sprittibee.
27. Lemony Buttered Shrimp from Jennifer at Conversion Diary Jen is a hilarious Catholic mom who lives and writes from Texas.
28. Chicken Marinara from Kim at The Upward Call
29. Banana Sheet Cake from Rebecca Writes Rebecca is a theologian as well as a homemaker, and she is worth reading on either subject.
30. Philly Cheesesteak Sloppy Joes from Chef in Training (Actually I found a link to this and several other recipes from Pinterest at Shonya’s blog, Learning How Much I Don’t Know)
31. Chocolate Chip Pie from Renee at Add More Chocolate. Renee hasn’t posted in a while, but she still has a whole bunch of chocolate recipes in her Month of Chocolate feature that she did in February, 2010.
32. Cranberry Salsa from A Circle of Quiet. She has a food blog called Notre Pain Quotidian.
33. Gooey Butter Cake from Laura at Lines in Pleasant Places.
34. The Best Chocolate Sheet Cake Ever from The Pioneer Woman via Beth at Weavings. I actually made this cake for the 4th of July, and everyone loved it.
35. White Chicken Enchiladas from Donna at Quiet Life.
36. Picadillo from Dorian Speed at Scrutinies.
37. Ammie’s Unbeatable Beef Stroganoff from Heather at Sprittibee.
38. Delicious Chicken Skillet from CIndy at Notes in the Key of Life. More links to Cindy’s favorite recipes.
39. Hawaiian Bread Sandwich from Staci at Writing and Living.
40. Breakfast Cookies from Susan Wise Bauer.
41. Jambalaya from Amy’s Humble Musings.
42. Seven Layer Salad from Barbara at Mommy Life.
43. Chicken Piccata from Seasonal Soundings.
44. Crockpot Swiss Chicken Casserole from These Four No More.
45. Crockpot Chicken and Wild Rice Soup from Kathie’s Garden of Life.
46. Crack Dip from Shannon at The Mommy Diaries.
47. Crockpot Cranberry Pork Tenderloin from Tiny Tidbits.
48. Greek Potatoes and Chicken from The Southern Belle.
I found the preceding four recipes at Kelly’s Korner blog on a crock pot link-up called Crockpotalooza.
49. Patty Melts from The Pioneer Woman.
50. Orange Julius. I have made this before, and I’ll post the recipe soon for those who don’t know it. Yummy summertime breakfast drink!
51. Flaky Apple Foldovers From my book, Summertime Favorite Recipes by Pillsbury.
52. Turkey Salad Polynesian. From my book, Summertime Favorite Recipes by Pillsbury.
53. Creamy Corn ‘n Zucchini. From my book, Summertime Favorite Recipes by Pillsbury. I can’t find it online. If it turns out good, I’ll post the recipe.
54. Country Morning Coffee Cake. Ditto #53.
55. Cinnamon Baked French Toast from The Pioneer Woman.
I know I could probably “pin” all these recipes on Pinterest, and it would be a lot easier, IF I could figure out to use Pinterest and IF I didn’t keep reading bloggers who are complaining about how Pinterest is eating up their lives and IF I hadn’t already spent hours making this list, so it’ll have to do, and if you want pictures click on the links and most of them have pics, and yes, I know this a run-on sentence, but I can’t stop myself which is why I’m not on Pinterest. END.
By the way, these recipes are mostly from bloggers who are on my Google Reader, bloggers whose recipes and book recommendations I trust. Thanks guys for all the new additions to my meal repertoire and for all the other lovely blog posts that you share with all of us each day.
Thanks for the link! I’d love to know what you think of the recipe if you do get around to trying it. And I know what you mean about Pinterest. I enjoy pinning things but I don’t seem to actually implement most of the ideas I see on there. Which isn’t really different from how I interact with the rest of the Internet, I guess!
This makes me chuckle–that’s a LOT of new recipes to try! 🙂 I may have to “pin” this page and try some of them along with you.
Well, Shonya, I don’t intend to make them all this week or this month even. I was thinking I’d do one or two new things each week for the rest of the summer and into the fall and even into 2013. After all, I have a whole year to be 55.
That’s a recipe a week! WOW!
As for Pinterest, I use it mostly when I am reading online and see something I like…a craft, book, or recipe. That way I don’t waste time. The way to get consumed with it is by searching for ideas day after day (say… autumn craft). There are just so many great ideas out there…
I saw this post a while back that explained some of Pinterest. http://www.thenesteffect.com/2012/02/pinterest-tips.html To find your own home page go to the top right and hover over your name and then click “boards.” (THat took way too long to figure out so I thought I’d share.)
I sent half of that cake home with the newlyweds when they returned from their honeymoon.
My daughter-in-law hadn’t tasted it before but she loved it.
Have been following links… 😉