Monster Mash Halloween Cookies

Monster Mash Halloween Cookies 🎃 👹 👻

- these taste like sugar cookies
- crisp outsides but soft inside
- I didn't measure the food gel colouring, just mixed in till it was the purple I wanted.
- NO! they do not taste like food colour. That's the nice thing about the gel colour.

- didn't flatten them

Recipe from hellocreativefamily.com

 

Beef Italia

Beef Italia

- this worked as a freezer meal beautifully

- divided it into two 9x9 pans, froze, vaccumed sealed.

- I liked this one. I like casseroles though. Tomato-y, cheesy, creamy, meaty....what's not to like?! Sabrina didn't mind it either. Lilly made gaggy faces. Darren ate the bottom meat part.

- I used shell pasta and dried onion

- added in Italian Seasoning - add in whatever spices you want.

Company's Coming - Pasta

Baked Potato and Egg

Baked Potatoes and Eggs

- I really liked these, and will make them again. 

- I may try to freeze one and see how it reheats

- they were easy to make, look impressive

- served with extra thick bacon, and maple baked beans

Pastitsio - Creamy Greek Bake

✅ Pastitsio - Creamy Greek Bake

- divided this and froze in two 9x9 foil pans

- did not bake before freezing

- zero issues with freezing this recipe - cooked up like it was freshly made

- cooked the macaroni to barely al dente - since it would be frozen, pasta was not mush after baking.

- I really liked this one - I am happy that there is a whole other dinner of this in the freezer.

- "The Others" liked the bottom tomato meat pasta layer only

Meatballs with Pineapple Sweet & Sour Sauce

Meatballs with Pineapple Sweet & Sour Sauce

- these were nice and pineappley

- making and freezing ahead made for a quick and easy meal. 

- it was good. But, half don't mind the pineapple, half don't like the pineapple.

- no I didn't use a slow cooker

- and I cooked the veggies separate - used a frozen stir-fry veggie mix.

- served over rice

Old-Fashioned Tangy Lemon Loaf

Old-Fashioned Tangy Lemon Loaf

  - The New Chatelaine Cookbook

These loaves baked up beautifully. 

Made for my Grandma's birthday gift. And have one in the freezer for a later date. She says it was good!

I was worried the amount of glaze would make them soggy - but that didn't happen.

I think, maybe, next time I will bake them in 1 large loaf pan - for gift giving.

2 small loaves for just us at home. 

Oatmeal M&Ms Cookies

Oatmeal M&M's Cookies

- no raisins - cause 😝
- added 1 cup mini m&ms
- used oil instead of butter
- used 1.5 cups oatmeal
- these are crumbly - the way I wanted them 😋