Our Cheesy Beef Noodle Bake is a great comfort food for the family. This is a very easy recipe to prepare and delicious to eat. There is enough for seconds for the guys who have worked all day and are tired and hungry. Just add a salad and some garlic bread and you have a great meal. I have taken this casserole to many pot luck suppers and it is always a hit. I hope you and your family enjoy the recipe!

  Hello everyone, welcome to our meal planning session for this week. I thought we would enjoy being on the screen porch today, but the fake spring ended and we are back to winter. However tomorrow it could be spring again here in Texas. I have some of my spring recipes and will enjoy including them in our meal plans today. I took a new freezer inventory this week, and organized the shelves. Does that happen at your house, all of a sudden you just can't find what you know is there? Sure enough I found what I knew was there. I am ready to start this meal plan and am glad you are here to help me.

Hello everyone and welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 738. I hope all of you had a great St. Patrick's Day celebration. We had a great party here last week and some of those post are featured here today. I hope that you will enjoy the post from these very talented bloggers. Some of you have had some awesome Spring Break time away from school with a time of relaxation. We saved you a seat at the table today and hope you will enjoy the party! 

Our Oven Baked Blueberry Skillet Pancake is a very special pancake. This recipe is easy to put together and is baked in the oven. We love our pancakes here at the cottage and this is a great way to serve them. The pancake is filled with delicious fresh blueberries and topped off with confectioners sugar  dusting. This has become of the most requested pancake for friends and family, especially for our Saturday morning brunch special's!

We just love a great Ruben Sandwich and this pizza does not disappoint. I made my Ruben Pizza with a ready made pizza crust that is so easy. Then we just layered the cheese, dressing, corned beef and sauerkraut. Finally topped it off with more cheese. Baked in the oven and ready to serve. This is a delicious pizza that we will enjoy for a long time to come. I am so glad that I developed this recipe just for this special day. I sure hope you enjoy it as much as we have!

  Welcome to the week of the Irish meal plans and happy St. Patrick's Day! That's right Monday, March 17, 2025 is St. Patrick's Day and we always celebrate that day. Meal planning for this week is a lot of fun because I get to go back over family recipes and pick some of my favorites. We have a little bit of some windy weather coming in, so I am going to hurry along and get this posted before our country internet shuts down.

  Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 737 and the week of the Irish! St. Patrick's Day is next Monday, March 17, 2025 and that is a big celebration here at the cottage. We always look forward to that day to celebrate our Irish heritage. We hope you will enjoy the party today, come on in the cottage and find your place at the table. We have some great features that we hope you will check out from last weeks party. We can't wait to see what you will be sharing with us today. Enjoy the party!

  Lemon Pudding Pie, is the easiest pie to make and takes very few ingredients. The pie is so creamy and very flavorful with a fresh lemon flavor. Just a little while in the refrigerator and it is ready to serve. I love having the ingredients for this pie on hand. It is a real go to dessert. It is a great recipe to serve for any occasion.

  Our garden to table Green Bean and New Potato Salad is a great salad for all occasions. I have really enjoyed taking the salad to pot luck events, and family gatherings. The salad is perfect for spring and summer outdoor events, it has no dairy products in the recipe. The vinaigrette is just perfect for the combination of green beans and potatoes. This recipe is very flavorful and one that can be the favorite of the season.

Happy Saturday and I hope you are having a special day. We are so excited to see some real tiny blooms on our pear trees today. I am actually out on my screen porch today enjoying the beautiful weather while I make these awesome meal plans for next week. I have been going through some of my spring recipes. I will love getting back to our fresh vegetables out of our spring garden as soon as it is producing. For this week we are going to our new Farmers Market just about 10 miles away. We are so lucky to have fabulous markets so close by. This makes it possible for us to have the freshest of ingredients for our recipes.

  Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 736 and welcome to the month of March! I am so excited to turn the calendar and enjoy some early spring foods. We have an old southern saying about March, "In like a loin and out like a Lamb". It has certainly come in like a Lion with lots of wind and rain. I am so happy that you are here today, come right into the cottage, we have saved you a place at the table. Be sure and check out the very talented bloggers post that are featured today. Lets get the party started, I can hardly wait to see what you will be sharing today!

We always celebrate our Irish heritage on St. Patrick's Day with lots of good food and fond memories of my Irish Grandparents. Remembering the stories that have been passed down through the years that are now passed on to the younger ones. A very proud heritage that is woven into the very fabric of our life. When we sit down to celebrate this year we will be remembering all the wonderful family that walked before us and made our journey so much smoother, along with the amazing recipes that make us think they are all right here with us.

  Spring is here and we are so ready for a season change. It is great to see all the Spring vegetables coming on in our garden and at the Farmers Market. We have a brand new Farmers Market opening in one of our villages on March 1 and I can hardly wait to see what all they will bring to sale. I am a seasonal cook and I look forward to turning the calendar to spring fruits and vegetables.

  Happy Saturday and welcome March! I am so excited to turn the calendar to a new season. If you have been coming to my blog for a few years you know by now that I get very excited with every new season. I am a seasonal cook and really enjoy the seasonal fruits and vegetables that each new season has to offer. We have a really fun holiday this week. Fat Tuesday is on Tuesday this week, with all the celebrations before Lint begins. We will plan on having some great Cajun food to celebrate with all of our friends.