This salad has it’s history. If you are keen on knowing it, you will have to look elsewhere. Like the great Caeser salad, Waldorf salad, Panzanella salad and others like them, what once may have been an original masterpiece, has, over the years, become something more of a personal masterpiece for anyone making it. Some […]
I’ve been wanting to create a really great, out of this world pizza for a long time. I’ve made pizza’s from scratch many times, but I’ve only hand made the crust once or twice (is in measured out ingredients myself instead of dumping a bag of premixed into a bowl and adding water). In years
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FIGS! Kim, from Ordinary Recipes Made Gourmet e-mailed me to ask if I wanted to host this week’s Blogger Secret Ingredient. Well, I couldn’t say no…I have a bad habit of doing that. What was I thinking???? Not only am I moving this week, my cousin is getting married on Saturday as well! Oh the
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For this week’s Blogger Secret Ingredient Challenge (hosted by Kim of Ordinary Recipes Made Gourmet), the ingredient chosen was peanut butter. Ohhhhhh peanut butter, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways: Peanut Butter cups PB ice cream pie PB cookies PB cheesecake Thai peanut sauce PB sandwiches PB smoothies Shall I go
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Sometimes, like Friday night or on a busy Saturday evening, you just don’t want to have to cook too much. Maybe you had a big lunch out with friends, or you have a movie to get to in a hurry. Well, there are healthy, fresh, tasty meals just waiting to be made and they really
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I know this blog is seriously lacking in the meat department. I can’t help it. I love my veggies and my strict food budget sometimes does not allow for the amount of money it costs to buy slabs of animal flesh. Soon enough (less than two weeks and counting!) I will be going to my
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I have a funny story from last week. Well, maybe not funny haha, but funny in it’s own little way… We were to be witnesses for some friend’s of ours as they signed the papers for buying a new house. There were no Realtors involved, so we would be the only one’s there besides the
Not Yo Mama’s Apple Butter Read More »
I’m baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! That’s right folks, it only took 5 days to get a new one, but I am now the proud owner of a second Nikon D60. DOn’t get your panties in a bunch though, the insurance agency is coming today to pick up the disheveled corpse that is my old camera to harvest it
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It’s a funny thing, the internet. It can bring the whole world to your fingertips or propel you out into the vast galaxy that is the world wide web right from your home or office and yet still feel as private as that little room in the bank where you open your safety deposit boxes. Yet the
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Life always has a way of curbing your enthusiasm when you get too excited doesn’t it? Last night was one of those nights. I was just steamin’ along, poaching eggs, making hollandaise, baking English muffins, stirring a big ol’ pot of apple butter for my first canning experiment, sautéeing spinach and mushrooms and cooking the