What’s Quick, Easy and Bursting with Flavor? The next time your family or friends gather for a potluck lunch or dinner, surprise them with this reinvention of the old tried-and-true potluck staple: pasta salad. This fresh, new combination is a real crowd-pleaser. Those who have never tried avocado, or who think they don’t like avocado, [...]
But Mom! We Never Eat Veggies for Breakfast! Now THIS is one delicious and incredibly versatile recipe! I can always count on Marzia to come up with the perfect, tasty recipe that I’m looking for! Just look at all of those veggies! Don’t they make your mouth water? To me, this would be one breakfast [...]
The Best & Easiest Kind of Cookies EVER Invented! Who wants a cookie? I do! Who, in their right mind, would turn down a cookie? This toffee butter icebox cookie that Trish has concocted is some seriously amazing cookie! It has taste, it has texture and even if it had wings, it couldn’t have flown [...]
Wrap It Up, I’ll Take It! I’m a big fan of wraps these days. They are just the perfect amount of carbs for me to have for a light lunch, without getting carb overload and drifting off to la-la land in a carb-induced stupor after lunch. Or maybe even just giving in to my lassitude [...]
How Could Anything This Scrumptious Actually Be Good for You? Quinoa (pronounced (KEEN-wah) is an ancient grain-like edible seed of a plant in the goosefoot plant family, which grows in the Andes Mountains, mainly in Bolivia and Peru. People have been eating it for thousands of years. Although it is really a seed, and not [...]
Easy-to-Create, Elegant Beef Presentation Many cooks shy away from even attempting to make this type of entrée, because it looks like would be extremely difficult. But nothing could be further from the truth. It is actually quite easy. If you have ever rolled up a towel, you have the all the skill required. The most [...]
Great for Your Eyes – Tasty in Your Tummy! Although these are known as Spicy Korean Carrots, they really are not, strictly speaking, a normal part of Korean cuisine. It is thought that this dish was first created by Korean immigrants to the former Soviet Union. The Koreans have a national dish, called Kimchi, that [...]
Super Easy – Super Yummy – Super….Slow? What would summertime be without sweet corn? Well, it would be a lot of things, obviously, but it wouldn’t be nearly as tasty! But we all know that summer, like all good things, is fleeting in nature and comes to an end all too soon. Here is a [...]
Sausage & Hash Browns & Eggs – Oh My! They say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It gets your sluggish metabolism up and chugging, and if you eat a healthy breakfast, it supposedly sets the tone for your eating patterns for the rest of the day. Well, I don’t know [...]
If Gravy Runs In Your Veins, You’ll Love This! The American South runs on biscuits and gravy! Nobody even has to ask what is meant by “gravy,” because everyone there grew up eating this same dish of savory sausage, bathed in velvety gravy and served over flaky biscuits. This dish is the rib-sticking breakfast of [...]