The Weekend Dish: 3/14/2020
Hello, hello everyone!
It looks like most of us are going to be hunkering down and spending tons of time at home for at least the next couple of weeks. The grocery situation appears to be absolutely insane (I did the last of mine on Wednesday morning before things really got turned upside down); did you get everything you need? I’m hoping things calm down over the weekend, stores get restocked, and I’ll be able to get some fresh produce at the beginning of the week.
I have recipes ready to share with you over the next few weeks, but if you’re looking for anything specific based on what you have on hand, please leave a comment below and I’ll give you links to some recommendations!
On Brown Eyed Baker This Week
20 St. Patrick’s Day Food Recipes – Get ready for your Irish-themed party with these green and Irish-inspired drinks, desserts, dinner and more for St. Patrick’s Day.
McDonald’s Shamrock Shake – This shamrock shake recipe is a homemade spin on the famous St. Patrick’s Day-inspired minty green milkshake from McDonald’s.
Friday Things #362 – A quick hello and wondering what types of content you’d like to see over the next few weeks while we all ride out this pandemic together.
Top 5 Most Popular Posts This Week:
1. My Favorite White Bread Recipe
2. Guinness, Whiskey & Irish Cream Cupcakes
4. Fluffy and Crisp Buttermilk Waffles
5. Homemade Peanut Butter Eggs
This Time Last Year…
These were the recipes that hit the site during this same week last year…
Homemade Potato and Cheese Pierogi
Sunday Dinner Menu
We canceled Sunday dinner this week to ensure no germs are passed around; doing our best at social distancing for everyone’s sake!
However, I’ll likely make a batch of meat sauce and pasta because the boys get seriously disappointed when we don’t have “sauce pasta” on Sundays 😉
What I Bookmarked This Week
Recipes and posts from other blogs that I thought looked especially delicious and that I thought you would like, too:
I’ve never had chicken stroganoff and now I’m totally craving it.
Iced oatmeal cookies are total dessert comfort food.
Love this dinner >> Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta with Chicken and Mozzarella
Would so love this Irish stout beef stew with herbed dumplings for dinner on St. Patrick’s Day.
Love these individual Irish soda muffins.
Have a delicious weekend!
After the first year of focusing on making their homes seem “perfect”,”tunnel rush“,… I gave them free reign to come up with anything they wanted! It was an experience I wanted children to remember as being one of joy, not a chore to get to the perfect home, so it was less stressful for me, which was important.
Thank you for keeping things normal, I’m looking for a respite from the blogs I read.Â
While on vacation a while ago I had a really great burger that had bacon onion jam on it.  I’d love to experiment with a homemade bacon onion jam! Â
I’ll second that… bacon and/or onion jam!
Here’s a bacon jam recipe! :) https://www.browneyedbaker.com/bacon-jam-recipe/
I have always wanted to find a site that a person can use to put in ingredients that they have on hand and come up with a good meal. I’m not one of those that can always throw things together successfully. Even though I live in a rural area I still get to the grocery store 3-4 times a week.  But, with the current situation, it would be a great time to find such a site. Do you know of any good ones? It might come in handy for a lot of people! Thank you so much!
Hope this situation goes away soon & life returns to normal. Keep your family healthy & try to maintain your sanity if you’re hunkering down at home. Since I’m in the “high risk” category, I’m going to work but that’s about it. Hugs from Kansas!
Now that I’ll be working from home more, I would like some slow cooker recipes. I never use my slow cooker during the week because I don’t feel comfortable leaving it on that long. But, since I’ll be home, I would love to use it more. And, I have a pregnancy craving for pound cake – any variation. Do you have any good recipes? Thanks!
Hi Jennifer, This is my very favorite pound cake recipe: https://www.browneyedbaker.com/cream-cheese-pound-cake/. Enjoy!