The Weekend Dish: 7/27/2019
Happy last weekend of July! I don’t know how we’ve gotten here so quickly, but phew… this summer is flying!
Are you doing any vacationing or fun summer activities this weekend?
As always, you’ll find a recap of what was posted to the site this week, the most shared recipes, my Sunday dinner menu, and recipes I’ve bookmarked from other blogs. Enjoy!
On Brown Eyed Baker This Week
The Best Meat Sauce: A Special Family Recipe – This amazing meat sauce recipe hails from my father-in-law’s kitchen and is everyone’s favorite. It’s thick, hearty, and has phenomenal flavor thanks to a combination of beef, veal, and pork.
Friday Things – Music, old recipes, road trip, decluttering, Mr. Rogers, and more…
Top 5 Most Popular Posts This Week:
1. Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
2. Best Ever Potato Salad Recipe
3. Refrigerator Bread and Butter Pickles
4. My Favorite White Bread Recipe
5. Copycat Dairy Queen Ice Cream Cake
This Time Last Year…
These were the recipes that hit the site during this same week last year…
The Best Shepherd’s Pie Recipe
Sunday Dinner Menu
My favorite chili recipe (I know it’s dog days of summer, but I’ve been craving chili!)
Tossed salad
Fruit salad
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:
How have I never heard of chocolate cobbler before?!
Tater tot breakfast casserole would be awesome for holiday breakfast or brunch.
I think these would be a big hit here (the boys are starting to get into spicy food!) >> Jalapeno Pepper Jack Turkey Burgers
Easy comfort food >> 20-Minute Ramen Carbonara
This peach dessert could not be more perfect for summer!
Have a delicious weekend!
This is a random comment, but for some reason only your Weekend Dish and Friday Things posts are showing up in my reader. (I use Feedly.) Not sure if it’s just me or there’s a setting on your posts that’s making them not show up. But good thing you recap them weekly so I can still find your recipes. :)
I’m so tempted to make this dish I’ve never heard of before….chocolate cobbler. Looks so easy w very inexpensive ingredients. I made 2 loaves of banana bread yesterday even though it was pretty hot and humid. Having the oven on was sort of yucky bit we are cooler for a few days in ca. Loved the pics from Friday things last week. That was s neat overhead pic of your babies. And of course gorgeous furry babies at the end..and u have a super nice deck. I’d sit out there w doggies all the time😊
Meat sauce, chili, shepard’s pie — all sound great to me. Could be I’m just craving ground beef!
I also have a slightly different recipe for chocolate cobbler. I don’t make it often but it’s very good.
The recipe I use for chocolate cobbler is a little different, but absolutely delicious. Make it soon!
The chocolate cobbler is similar, sort of, to one of my favorite desserts that I have been making for eons. Molly Katzen’s mother’s Chocolate Eclipse from her cookbook, Still Life with Menu. If you can find the book, it’s wonderful, too.
http://www.molliekatzen.com/recipes/recipe.php?recipe=chocolate_eclipse
It’s ironic that you’re having chili for Sunday dinner tomorrow. These are hot days, but I am making corn chowder while the corn is fresh and delicious . . . chowder on a hot day sounds like too much, but while the corn is fresh . . . I’ll cool it off by also making a cucumber & tomato salad (also right out of the garden), watermelon, and finishing dinner off with a peach & blueberry galette made with peaches straight in from Chambersburg and blueberries from the local farm. While not a fan of hot dogs, I’ll probably grill a few for those who like them. I’ll be using some elements from your corn chowder recipe combined with another that I’d like to try. To me, using these garden fresh ingredients makes for a great summer meal, even though it’s chowder on a hot summer day. Stuffed peppers is another summer meal that seems out of place, but when the peppers are right out of the garden, it is SO good. I’ll probably make that for Sunday dinner next week. Or eggplant parmesan since I’ll also have a couple of those ready in the garden by next week. SO many good options that seem a little heavy for summer, but are so much better when the produce is straight from the garden.
Isn’t it great how our sports scene instantly got a little more exciting now that training camp has opened? Loving it!
Have a great weekend, Michelle!