Favorite Daughter 2

08/19/2026

Rotini pasta with meatballs. My son’s favorite meal. I baked my meatballs first so that they could hang out in the sauce while my noodles were boiling. Once everything is done cooking, put your drained rotini in your dish, top it with the meatball sauce mixture, and then top that with whatever cheese you choose to use. Put in the oven at 350° until cheese is melted. Feel free to broil it a bit to get that good crispy cheese look. Enjoy

08/13/2026

BOGO at Publix makes these $4.40 a piece in my area. You cannot beat that for Enjoy Life.

08/12/2026

Homemade hot pockets. Use whatever ground meat is on sale. Throw in taco seasoning, rice, and beans, and some cheese. Fold meat mixture inside your dough and bake at 350° for 40 minutes or until golden brown. Enjoy

08/07/2026

My son texted from his work yesterday and asked if he could make dinner. Who am I to say no to a meal made for me? He bought some steaks and seasoning, cleaned the grill, and grilled up some wonderful steaks. Paired that with green beans and a slice of fresh homemade sourdough bread. Well, this child won’t have to rely on takeout to survive.

08/06/2026

I woke up way too early, but at least it’s a good day for that. It’s bread making day at my house.

08/05/2026

Did you make the added veggies tacos yet? If you watched that reel, you saw that I had a large can of diced tomatoes and only used half of them for my baked tacos. Here is what I did with the other half of the diced tomatoes…
Bake mini meatballs in the oven following tge package directions.
Boil rotini noodles following package directions.
Heat a large jar of spaghetti sauce, adding the extra diced tomatoes. Add mini meatballs when they are done baking, let simmer.
Put rotini into a 9x13 oven safe dish. Pour on sauce and meatball mixture. Top with shredded cheese and bake until cheese is melted.
Enjoy!

07/30/2026

“Mock Apple Crisp” using zucchini instead of apples. We topped it with Halo Top ice cream.
I did not believe that a dessert could taste like apples when you use zucchini. I was wrong. This does taste like apples to me and my family. Full disclosure: my husband did notice that there was something different in the texture, but he is the only one. I did tell my boys that it was zucchini, and they all still liked it. My oldest said, “ If there’s zucchini in this, you did good.” My youngest thinks that it is better than with apples beca it’s not overly sweet. It was a winner at my house!

07/27/2026

Cooked vegetables are the only veggies on my family’s plates these days, so here is how I add some into the meal. Brown one pound of ground beef (or chicken). Add one can of black beans (drained), and one can of diced tomatoes (my can was super sized, so I only added half). Add one packet of taco seasoning or 2.5 TBSP homemade taco seasoning, an earlier reel shows my recipe, and let that cook down to coat. Add cheese if you would like. Pour 1 TBSP of oil onto a plate and dip your small flour tortillas into it coating the outside. Fill with browned beef mixture, fold in half, and put on baking sheet. Bake at 350° until tortillas and brown and crispy. Technically, everything is already cooked before the oven, so you can bake them as long as you would like, you don’t have to let them get crispy. My family liked to top these with salsa or avocado, but I just ate them plain.

07/24/2026

07/20/2026

I had some cherries sitting in my frig that needed used. I decided to whip up my coffee cake and added a layer of chopped cherries to it. Cherries have a subtle taste, so it just added a little extra without changing the flavor of the coffee cake too much. Check out my earlier reels where I show how to make homemade bisquick and the coffee cake.