Bacon, Sausage and Potato Frittata Squares

Frittata, quiche, crustless quiches...I honestly don't know the difference between the three, although I know there is one. I've even looked it up, but I still am unclear since everyone seems to have their own idea. Here's how I look at it: Quiche is like pie, with a crust. Crustless quiche is like pie, without a crust (and in my world always baked in a glass pie plate). Frittatas are usually done on the stove, but if they're baked then they are done in a square pan.

Is that an official definition? Not even a little. I make stuff up all the time.

At any rate, this is one I made up as I went along based on several odds and ends of things in my kitchen that needed to be used up or tossed. It would be good with a mixture of cheeses (pepper jack would be excellent), or with the addition of some bell peppers or mushrooms. But since I didn't have any of those things, they're not in this recipe. That's how I roll. Everything in this is an item I pretty much always have on-hand.

Take Some Vermicelli Salad to Your Next Picnic

In the summertime, we live on salads. The trouble is, having to make everything ultra-low carb means a lot of salads are out. However, if I plan well, I can sometimes slip a pasta or potato salad in here and there. This was my experiment to see if I could figure out a way to combat the thing where pasta salad soaks up the dressing and gets dry, and it actually worked! I never had to add more mayonnaise, even three days later as we were eating the last bit of it.

Crab-Stuffed Cucumbers Are Perfect For Summer

I love seafood, more than I probably should. Even if it's the fake kind (which is all pollock, if I'm not mistaken) it can be good, and it's certainly a lot cheaper than buying real seafood, especially if you don't live on a coast or in a big city. This recipe originally came from (I believe) Dlife.com, but I had to tweak it a great deal to make it taste how we wanted it to.

What I love about these is you can do them as an appetizer, or you can do them as a main dish. I even once seeded and diced the cucumber, then mixed it in with the crab.

Basic Pantry Items

When I first started the Facebook page, I was asked for some ideas of foods to keep on-hand that could always result in a meal even on short notice without a plan. Obviously everyone's taste is different, but here are some things I always keep on the shelf or in the freezer. Putting them together in various combinations with different herbs and spices often results in a new recipe, made with things I already own.

Why Not Start a Blog? All the Cool Kids Are Doing It!

There really is no reason for me to have put this off as long as I have, except sheer laziness. But, simply posting photos with attached recipes on Facebook has started to become cumbersome (especially when sharing to other pages), so I figured I should do something about it. Most of the recipes you'll see here for a while will have already been posted on my Facebook page as I started it almost a year ago, but I'll also be adding new things as well. I figure this will also be a better platform for longer posts about various things as well.