Wrapping up Food week- Mixed Berry Crisp

Food week is coming to an end, and I’ve saved one of my favourite fall desserts for last.  I found a bag of mixed berries next to a bag of oatmeal in my freezer and thought these two could be great together.  I also love a traditional apple crisp, but I thought the berries would be a nice change.  Fruit crisp is a pretty straight forward recipe and there are lot so variations, so feel free to browse the web.  I threw this one together on my own. You’ll need: Oatmeal- quick cook oats mixed berries- frozen or fresh cinnamon sugar cornstarch flour butter In an effort to make room in my freezer...

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Operation Fill the Freezer: Double post: Chicken Enchiladas and Chicken Rollatini with Zucchini

Food week continues, and I’ve got a double chicken post for you today! The first recipe is for Chicken Enchiladas.  In the past, I’ve gone to those ‘we-prep-everything-you-put-together’ cooking places.  I was curious at first, and did it a second time, but I realized 1) I don’t mind the prep work 2) I think it’s a bit expensive for what you get 3) they were recipes that I could make at home.  I’m not dissing these places, I think they’re great for busy families, or people who don’t like to cook.  I had made Beef Enchiladas at one of these places, and realized I could do this at home.  I decided to make chicken enchiladas...

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Operation Fill the Freezer- Chicken Pot Pie

Food week continues here at A Paper Buffet and today’s chicken feature is Chicken Pot Pie.  I emailed my dad for his recipe, and while I was making it, I realized, it’s on the back of the soup label! I guess that means I won’t ever have to worry about losing the recipe!  (recipe is adapted from Campbells Chicken pot pie recipe) You’ll need: 2 cups cooked chicken, cut into pieces 4 cups cooked vegetables (you can used canned or frozen) 2 cans cream of potato soup 1 cup milk salt and pepper to taste thyme to taste refrigerated biscuits foil freezer  pans You could easily make pie crust, or purchase...

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Operation Fill the Freezer- Roasted Butternut Squash and Zucchini soup

I could eat soup year round. This soup is hearty and I typically make this in the fall/winter.  I have posted this recipe before, but it’s so good, it’s worth repeating. It was a recipe I made by accident, so feel free to add more roasted veggies or spices if you like. You’ll need: Butternut Squash Zucchini 2 cooking onions Chicken stock- homemade or prepared; substitute veggie stock if you prefer salt and pepper to taste olive oil Immersion or standard blender You can play with the ration of squash to zucchini to suit your taste.  I wanted this batch to be more squash-y (humour me) so I had one squash...

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Operation Fill the Freezer- Sweet and Sour Chicken Wings

One of my favourite meals as a kid was my mom’s sweet and sour chicken wings.  They’re not hard to make, but they do take a little time because of the basting.  These aren’t low fat wings; there are things you can do to reduce the fat as you go, but I think wings are one of those moderation foods that you need to enjoy with full flavour (read fat).  You’ll need: Chicken Wings – if you can find skinless, all the better.  I couldn’t find them at Costco, so these ones have skin but have the tips removed I had a package of about 50 wings, and I had enough sauce.  The recipe calls for 24 wings. ...

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Kicking off Food Week: Cinnamon Swirl Bread

The Discovery channel has Shark Week and here at A Paper Buffet, we’re having Food Week! There is a crispness in the air that can only mean fall.  Which means: I don’t feel like salad for dinner anymore.  Summer meals are light, and fresh; fall foods are warm, spicy, comforting.   I love to cook, and enjoy trying new recipes.  I also love the old standards that I grew up with.  Taking a peek in my freezer, I realized I was running out of chicken and would need to stock up again. Enter: Operation Fall Freezer Fill-up. I also realized, I was getting tired of cooking chicken  the same way.  Typically I...

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to a great pair

I love punny stamps, and one of my favourites is from Stampendous, that features little images and cute sentiments.  My mom ordered an anniversary card, and I knew I had to use this set.  I picked my current fav colour combo of grey and lime green and set to work! Isn’t it fun! Who wouldn’t love to receive this on their anniversary! The card base is SU Basic Grey, and I’ve layered some Whisper White.  DP is from my stash and I used it on the birthday cards (see previous post), also ordered by mom.  The ribbon is Old Olive satin ribbon and I was surprised how well it worked with the lime green. I stamped the pear...

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Birthday cards in 3,2,1…

My mom called with an order for three birthday cards, feminine, to be hand delivered.  She’s a pro now in telling me the information I need to know right away ;)   She also requested an anniversary card, but I’ll share that with you tomorrow. Here are the birthday cards I made for her, again using sketches from my Paper Crafts Sketch magazine.   The first card is soft and very “flowy”.  I found a set of flowers I had made when I first got this nestibilities flower die, and thought it was perfect for the sketch.  I stamped the flourish in SU Sage Shadow on some Very Vanilla card stock.   I placed the flower...

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