stuffed peppers

I'm not big on spice - I like medium salsa, such a small amount of wasabi it's pretty much pointless, and I can do without cayenne. But that's not why I don't like stuffed jalepenos - I just don't like the taste of those particular peppers. So if you're dead set on stuffing jalepenos, well, branch out and use bell peppers. Or use your jalepenoes. I'll never know.

toni's taco casserole

This actually came from my mom's recipe box from her pre-married days, because she copied it from her best friend's mom after liking it in high school. So, it has to be good, right? And easy as 1-2-3. This makes a VERY full 13x9 because I like to freeze 1/2 of it for another night. Each 1/2 serves 4-6 (which means that for now, while our girls are little, we get dinner, then leftovers for lunch, then dinner again, and leftovers for lunch again - all from 20 minutes in the kitchen).

ground beef tacos

Listen, I love soft tacos. In fact, that's what we have most of the time around here (and by most of the time I mean at least every couple weeks). But sometimes, and especially for ground beef, you've gotta just fry up those suckers and enjoy the crispy, oily crunch. Save the healthy soft stuff for some other time.

biscuts, beef, and rice

The recipe that started this whole food blog was the result of a couple of accidents: Mr. Improv had taken me literally when I said, "Get all the tomato stuff the recipe calls for" and he bought only the diced tomatoes, neglecting the spaghetti sauce; and I forgot to stop by the store on my way home from work the day I planned to make ravioli, leaving me without the necessary pasta sauce.

Because I regularly forget at least one item on my grocery list, plus regularly forget to even write one of the key ingredients down on my list, plus get whimsical once I don an apron, I already knew quite a bit about making something called dinner out of random ingredients that don't seem to go together.

And so, Biscuits, Beef and Rice was born, along with this food adventure. Bon apetit!