Back from Vacation – Cookies – Creamy Pasta
Family Vacay complete! We went from very cold and lots of snow in Northern Michigan to Panama City Beach for a week on the beach. The weather was warmer than normal, and don’t slap me, but it was hot! Lots of 
Portuguese man o wars were washed up on the beach so not much time “in” the water with those blue beauties. On the food front, I was so consumed with packing all of our own food I forgot to pack other random things! Seriously, there was so many times we looked at each other and said “oh I should’ve brought that….” fill in the blank- there was plenty.
I’m not into frivolously spending money especially on eating out, plus no matter where we eat I always get from everyone that my food is better. Quite the compliment, I agree, however does this mama get a break? I guess not, but I do agree. Let’s face it home cooked meals made from scratch with whole ingredients is just better. (No offense restaurants)
Before leaving I started by baking Sourdough Bagels, Sourdough Honey Rolls, Sourdough Sweet Hawaiian Rolls and Chocolate Chip cookies! I used the Honey Rolls to make delicious chicken sandwiches for the trip down there. We ate the bagels with cream cheese at the condo and made ham sliders on the Hawaiian rolls.
We also brought The MEAT!
As much meat as we could pack in a big ol cooler – think ham, sausage, ground pork, bacon, pork chops! We must’ve brought one of our whole pigs. Ok, not quite that much. My thought process was to pack the expensive stuff (we raise ours on pastures with organic feed) and buy the easier and cheaper stuff like ketchup & mustard. It worked out really well actually. We only ate out once at our favorite restaurant Runaway Island- baja fish tacos are the best! We actually have nearly recreated it by accident at home, I’ll have to get that recipe typed up for ya. So good! Plus I HAD to get Publix subs one day while we went to the state park to alligator hunt. Ok, calm down not hunting just trying to find. Which by the way we did not. Next time! If you are near a Publix try those subs, not the healthiest, but they are tasty and once a year is good, right? I use to fly down from Michigan to Florida to Anna Maria Island with my family (Shout out to my mom!) and every time we got off the plane, grabbed a car and headed to the condo we got a sub from Publix!
Two new recipes are up! Chocolate Chip Cookies made with Coconut flour- really easy and delicious so if you’ve bought coconut flour and not sure what to do with it, this recipes works good!
Plus a Creamy Chicken and Pasta dish that’s ready in 15 minutes! You gotta have these types of recipes ready for the summer when you’d rather be outside. I used my favorite ramen noodles but you can use any type. It’s 
cheesy, has veggies and meat so it’s a complete meal in my book!
PS- We also “HAD” to bring out cast iron pan, because well everything cooks better in the caster!
