A Different Type of Sandwich You Can Serve in Less Than 20 Minutes I am always in search of interesting, easy and quick sandwiches to make for myself and others. I get bored eating the same old thing, day-after-day, week-in and week-out. I imagine there are many of you that feel the same way. This [...]
The Cake to Put All the Other Cakes to Shame! Any food that has the word “turtle” associated with it is going to have some combination of nuts, chocolate and caramel. I have enjoyed the creamy custard, known as flan, in Mexican restaurants. So I was picturing custard with chocolate syrup and nuts on top. [...]
Mama Never Made It Like This! I don’t know how it was in your family when you were growing up, but at my house, we had my mother’s version of this casserole at least once a week, and sometimes even more often. It was expensive raising a family with seven kids. I didn’t even see [...]
Best Comfort Food – Ever! Did you eat those horrible little frozen pot pies at your house when you were a kid? Same here! At the time, we thought they were kind of exotic and pretty tasty. Plus they were one of the few things we were allowed to cook without adult supervision. They were [...]
You Can Really Thai One On With This Salad Recipe! I am always on the lookout for new and interesting salad recipes. I simply cannot stand to eat one more wimpy salad of iceberg lettuce, a bit of tomato and, maybe, a piece or two of cucumber. There’s just no dressing in the world good [...]
Is This Chicken Drunk? This dish was very popular at a national restaurant chain a few years back. But then someone with an overly-inflated sense of morally righteous indignation complained about the fact that it contained alcohol, and it was dropped from the menu. Then the restaurant patrons complained that they wanted it back. In [...]
Quick, Super-Easy Baked Deliciousness It is sometimes hard to find tasty, interesting recipes for fish, the types of recipes that you could serve to dinner guests proudly. This recipe is easy and quick enough for a busy weeknight dinner, yet it is also not your run-of-the-mill baked fish, so it can be presented elegantly enough [...]
Don’t Let a Few Peppers Inspire a Knee-Jerk Reaction! If you like your food with any degree of spicy heat - anywhere from the mild bit of flavor provided by three crushed red pepper flakes to the take-off-the-roof-of-your-mouth explosion of fire that occurs when you include a handful of scotch bonnet peppers in a recipe [...]
Are You Roasting This Summer? Let Your Slow Cooker Take the Heat! I often wonder, when a recipe is labeled with a particular global cuisine reference, such as Italian, Greek or Caribbean – is it really? Would it be a normal part of the diets of those people? Is there some little Nonna over in [...]
You’ll Love Every Bite of This Crunchy Mess! As a kid, Sloppy Joes were one of my favorite meals. Of course, this was long before the convenience of Manwich was ever even dreamed of by the marketing genius at ConAgra Foods and Hunt’s, who brought it to market in 1969 as a “quick and easy [...]