The Most Popular Recipe on the Internet! Every cook worth his or her salt has a meatloaf recipe. Many guard their meatloaf recipe like it was a national treasure, only sharing it with family members and their closest friends. Meatloaf recipes are the most popular on the internet, for the simple reason that meatloaf is [...]
Better Than Takeout & Easy to Make at Home Mongolian Beef. These words conjure up images of exotic oriental locales, with Attila the Hun and his hordes sweeping down the Eurasian Steppe to conquer unsuspecting villages. Surely this must be what they ate around their campfires after a long day of pillaging! But this dish [...]
This, You Just Gotta Taste to Believe! Are you looking for a rich, decadent and impressive chocolate dessert for company? This could be the one! It elevates humble bread pudding to an entirely different level. The best part? Even though it looks impressive, it isn’t really hard to make. Your family will love this too, [...]
Your Mouth Will Do a Happy Dance! I am not exactly a broccoli hater, but for most of my life, I only liked cooked broccoli. Whenever it was served raw on a salad bar or at the buffet table at a party, I would steer clear of it. Then a friend served this salad at [...]
Sweet, Spicy, Tangy, Crunchy, Creamy – Oh My! Now this is one really flavorful salad! Your mouth won’t know whether to shut up and eat or jump up and shout. Yes, it’s just THAT good! What a glorious riot of flavors! The corn is sweet, but it becomes transformed with the addition of herbs and [...]
This Will Make You Feel as Good as Mashed Potatoes! Ah, chili mac! Was there ever a finer use for macaroni, beef, cheese and tomato sauce? It both plagued and enriched my formative years. There was a thoroughly hideous version of chili mac that was served once every week in my school cafeteria. It was [...]
Easier Than Cracking an Egg! Okay, just how many versions of your “standard” side dishes have you rotated through your dinner menus? Thousands of dishes of potatoes, green beans, peas, corn and carrots, I imagine. Don’t you think it is high time for something new and different? “But my family won’t eat mushrooms!” you wail, [...]
Quick & Easy Treat From the Sea Scallops are one of the most tender, delicate and mild-tasting shellfish known as mollusks. Other mollusks are clams, oysters and mussels. If scallops are on the menu, I almost always order them. I enjoy their slightly sweet taste and their somewhat firm texture that resembles poultry. They don’t [...]
It May Sound Corny, But You’ll Love This! Yes, it is summer. Yes, this is soup. Now you might not think of eating soup in the summertime, but that is the exact time when corn has ripened to perfection and is readily available from roadside stands and the produce section of your local market. If [...]
It’s Magically Delicious! You can see three very distinct layers in the picture. Yet this is not some complicated three-layer cake. In fact, it couldn’t be any easier, unless somebody else baked it for you! It truly is a magic cake, because you are only going to prepare one batter to get all three of [...]