Chef John has done it again! I do enjoy a good tomato pie. I’ve even found ways to make them in the dead of winter when fresh tomatoes just aren’t available. Well, fresh flavorful tomatoes aren’t available.

Granted I did think twice about the Frito crust on this one but…it makes sense. It is also easier than making a regular pie crust.

I’m adding this one to my collection. How about you?

I’ve been enjoying Stacey’s Simple Meals this month. Stacey has embarked on a Recipe A Day In The Month Of May and it has been such fun seeing what she comes up with!

Click HERE to visit her YouTube Channel.

Click HERE to visit her website.

Stacey normally presents recipes for one or two people but on her website she has included the latest updates, what you will need for larger quantities and alternate cooking methods.

Check it out and let us both know what you will be making!

Cooking and baking can be extremely simple or excruciatingly complicated and everything in between. For most of us the day to day meals the occasional (or not so) extra special deserts are relatively simple affairs that can be accomplished by reading the recipe and understanding the instructions.

Recently Glen & Friends over on YouTube posted a great example of what happens when recipe writers, and those who use those recipes to make sales, create recipes that are almost certainly guaranteed to frustrate, annoy, and fail. Check it out:

Be sure to check out both recipes in the description box below the video. Eye opening stuff!

I have to wonder if the original recipes might have gone through some tool to adjust it for folks in different parts of the world or who use different measuring tools. That might explain some of the ridiculous measurements.

What Glen does is take the absurdity out of the equation and provide a usable recipe that anyone should be able to make. Even someone who is new to the cookery craft.

As I said, things like this do not have to be complicated but there is also a touch of confusion when you are working with a recipe intended for folks who use scales and those who do not. Either method works you just have to be mindful to be sure you are keeping with the method you chose.

Those cookies do look good!

The absolute best quiche I’ve ever had was one made with more filling than eggs. It is not easy to find one like that. However, the one below checks all the boxes and then some:

The potato crust is amazing. This gem could feed a few more folks than you might think. I love the versatility of it, too.

Would you give this one a try?

Nicole over at AllRecipes on YouTube has done it again. I am especially liking the encouragement to use what we already have on hand.

This is the second food processor video Nicole has done.

Recently one of my YouTube foodies mentioned that she was over Winter casseroles and ready for lighter Spring food. Yep! I fully understand.

Don’t get me wrong, I love my casseroles and a good roast but after months of that … Even your favorites on the menu no longer excite you, right.

I don’t know about you but I suspect we are in the same, er, cart when it comes to restocking the pantry and finding new meal options. I’ve been pondering my next grocery order and, well, let’s just say that it isn’t exactly going well. I have the roast and some ground beef and lots of chicken in the freezer along with more veg than should be there. In the pantry there are rice and pasta and a few cans of beans. One lonely packet of tuna is in the fridge. Note: I keep my tuna in the fridge because I mostly use it for tuna salads and it just makes sense to keep it cold.

Tuna. Tuna!

I realized that the biggest problem I was having developing my grocery list was that I wasn’t putting things on it I wanted to eat. Head Slap Moment!

A few weeks back I pulled a packet of smoked tuna out of the fridge and made my usual tuna salad with it. O. M. G.!!! That was amazing! Smoked tuna isn’t always easy to get hold of…why not buy a bottle of liquid smoke to add with the rest of the salad ingredients?

Liquid smoke could also be used in oven barbeque sauces or added to gravies.

I realized that I wouldn’t mind having some salmon patties, too. I’m not up to trying to cook salmon fillets but a salmon patty is easy and tasty.

A variety of Spring greens are now available, too. That broadens the salad issue. Some of the Spring fruits and berries are coming on, too.

I think the grocery order is starting to look interesting and, dare I say it, exciting.

What have you been missing that might go on your next grocery order? Something you haven’t had in a while, I hope!

Happy Cooking!