2010 ~ Colie's Kitchen

Dec 30, 2010

Homemade Foaming Hand Soap

I don’t like to refer to myself as cheap so I will say I am frugal. I hate spending big bucks on things we use every day. I love to have foaming hand soap in the bathroom, but I hate to pay refill prices. In the kitchen I have the Lysol No-Touch Hand Soap System which I refill myself also. I decided to find a way to refill my foaming hand soap dispenser...

This is an excellent recipe on a cold winters night! It's warm and filling, and even better... it's not very expensive! I love corn chowder!! I had no idea I loved it until I finally gave it a chance now it's a favorite soup of mine. I did not use fresh corn. I actually used one can of sweet corn. Ingredients: 3 ears fresh corn or 3 ears bicolor corn (I used 1 can or...

Teriyaki Chicken Legs

This is a fantastic recipe! The chicken legs are bursting with teriyaki flavor. I marinate the chicken legs no less than 12 hours which makes a huge difference. By marinating them for at least 12 hours the marinade has a chance to get deep into the meat. Fantastic! Ingredients 2 lbs chicken legs 1/2 cup margarine or butter 1 cup soy sauce (I use reduced salt) 1 cup...

Puppy Chow

Chex Party Mix is a staple for our Christmas Celebration. Since I married my husband I always make something that he grew up being “Puppy Chow” which is made with Chex cereal! We love finding new and creative ways to use Chex especially at the holidays! Ingredients: 9 cups Chex cereal 1/2 cup peanut butter 1 cup chocolate...

Wordless Wednesday: Coupons!

This is how coupons pay off!! Because I use coupons I got 74 items at Kroger totaling $139.21 for $7.90 after coupons!! When people tell me they don't like to use coupons, it's embarrassing, they don't have time, it's too much trouble... yada... yada...yada this is what I say in response: $7.90 for 74 items! Coupons give me the ability to share with my extended family, the...

Wordless Wednesday (Ummm Pretzels!)

When Kevin and I were at the Texas Renaissance Festival on Saturday where the pretzel guy became our best friend. We literally didn’t eat one single thing other than pretzels. We are seriously cheap! LOL We just couldn’t justify $8 for everything you could eat there especially after we spent that a few weeks ago when we were there, and it wasn’t worth the money. We had a...

Libby's Pumpkin Roll (Recipe)

This is fantastic and a great presentation if you want to give it to someone as a gift, or make it for a great after dinner treat. We make at least two each Thanksgiving. They do not last very long in our family. I have even known people who sell these in their office for $8-$10 each. Shesh.. or just make it for $4? This is a must for Thanksgiving! So if you are sitting there...

Fiesta Oyster Cracker Mix (Recipe)

I love these crackers. Not only are the inexpensive to make but they spicy (not hot) and yummy, and a great grab and go snack for a holiday party. You can use any ranch dressing, but the fiesta ranch adds a nice tangy zip to the crackers. Last Christmas I took these to a holiday party and they were a big hit! Ingredients: 2 TBS of Fiesta Hidden Valley...

Wordless Wednesday

My husband refers to my food storage containers as my “Redneck Tupperware.” The fact of the matter is if there is a plastic container that has come into my house with food in it I have always tried to reuse it like sour cream and cottage cheese containers until a few days ago. After reading a scary article about how dangerous it can be to re-use certain plastic containers...

Cheesy Cabbage Casserole

I made the mistake of making this casserole as a main dish. I have been trying to incorporate two meatless meals in our menu per week, but I haven’t been very successful. I made this for dinner thinking what a great meatless meal it would be when it truth it would have made a much better side dish. I don’t blame the recipe I blame myself. As for the dish...

Wordless Wednesday: The Texas Renaissance Festival

Each year my husband and I go to the Texas Renaissance Festival. Normally we have gone for our anniversary. Last year we missed the Renn because we were in Vegas, and this year we did it a little later than our anniversary waiting on the cooler weather. Saturday was the perfect day to partake in the festivities. After sitting in traffic for almost two hours we were just ready...

Hammy Cream of Potato Soup

I started off making one recipe tonight, and then changed in the middle of chopping. So this was another recipe that has been modified to something I thought might be better, and I was right it’s fantastic. The weather here is nasty! Cold and rainy weather has soup written all over it. This is a very rich and hearty recipe. The flavors work so well together, and it’s just...

My husband loves to vacuum! He calls it his therapy. I don’t stand in the way of his happiness in fact I encourage his “therapy”! If vacuuming makes you happy then have it! A husband who loves to vacuum is pretty wordles...

Cheater Cheater Barbequed Chicken Sliders

I am notorious for putting dinner off until the last minute. I either forget to take something out of the freezer or time gets away from me, and we are approaching eight pm, and I haven’t even started dinner. Because of those reason I always make sure I have something that I can make for dinner that’s quick and easy and something I can pull out of the freezer at a moment’s...

Spinach-Artichoke Peene

I love this recipe especially for our meatless nights. It's so easy and quick, and it's just wonderful. I can't say enough about just how great it is. It's like Spinach-Artichoke dip on pasta. Yummy! Ingredients 5 ounce box frozen spinach, thawed and drained 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon butter 3 garlic cloves minced 1 small onion, grated 2 tablespoons flour...

Wordless Wednesday Weather and Weddings

As my husband’s friends and family in Minneapolis are dealing with horrible weather, snow, sleet, and just nastiness I had to post this picture for Wordless Wednesday. Here in Houston our weather is gorgeous! Yes its 94 degrees outside today, but it’s breezy and wonderful. I could go for cooler, but that will be here tomorrow. Tomorrow night our cooler weather will be here....

I had never made roasted carrots before, but I needed a veggie to go with dinner, and we had a few bags of carrots that needed to be used. I decided to try roasted them. Something about the fall makes me want to roast everything. Who knows why? There were several things I was not prepared for, 1 they shrink down, 2 they cook pretty quickly I figured the cooking time was...

Quick and Easy Chicken Marsala

Normally when I make chicken marsala I spent a couple of hours making it. Last Sunday the night got away from me, and I didn’t realize dinner time was quickly passing us by. I went into full panic mode because I had planned chicken marsala for dinner. I went back through some recipes that had been emailed to me from readers, and gave this one a shot. It looked, easy, and...