Dust Off Your Slow Cooker – It’s Party Time! Remember those little grape-jelly meatballs that were all the rage at cocktail parties for quite some time? Nobody believed they actually had grape jelly as one of the main ingredients. Now Rebecca has come up with might be considered grape-jelly meatballs, version 2.0. Only these are [...]
I Had No Idea You Could Do This To A Meatball! How many of you out there love meatballs? No, I mean really LOVE meatballs? They are one of my favorite things to eat, yet there are SO many ways they can go terribly wrong. I have had hard and overcooked meatballs. I have had [...]
Gooey, Melty And Packed With Goodness – A Deadly Breakfast Combo! There isn’t much that beats cinnamon rolls baking for drawing people to the kitchen! They will wait in eager anticipation for them to come out of the oven and be iced with some type of sweet frosting. With any forethought whatsoever, they will have [...]
Looking For a Quick, Easy and Healthy Snack? These days, many of us are trying to be more health-conscious by making better food choices, controlling portion sizes, getting into exercise routines and establishing better sleep patterns. But admit it, there are times when you see a tempting dessert and you feel like you must indulge [...]
The Risk Of Embarrassment Hiding In Your Appetizers! Do you seriously think that those swanky and elitist Hollywood stars would serve just any old cheeseball or pigs-in-a-blanket at their ritzy parties in the Hollywood hills? Puhlease, don’t even think such nonsense! Their parties are catered by million-dollar caterers that serve darling little canapes created by [...]
Stop Thinking You Can’t Make These At Home! Has it ever struck you as odd that IKEA serves Swedish meatballs? Okay, so both are Swedish. I get that part. But why have a cafeteria in a furniture store? I am sure that there must be some convoluted marketing algorithm that makes it seem like a [...]
Give Me 20 Minutes And I’ll Give You Real Comfort Food It seems like I am always running late. Oh, I know smarty-pants, I might be able to solve that problem if I got an earlier start, right? Well, yes and no. I can only control my part of the equation. Just me, my own [...]
There’s A Big Compliment Hidden In This Dessert! Everybody has a favorite cookie. The Number 1 Favorite cookie of everyone here is the US is the chocolate chip cookie. That makes perfect sense, because there is enough variety in the chocolate chip cookie genre that there is some type of chocolate chip cookie to please [...]
Little Known Ways To Cook A Roast Beef Dinner Has this ever happened to you? You are planning a small dinner party and you want to fix a home-style meal for your guests. So you go to the market and buy a nice-sized chuck or round roast and some beautiful fresh veggies to cook in [...]
Why One Method Fails And Another Succeeds – Which Will You Choose? I have no idea how things were, growing up in your house. In my family, we were just working-class poor, with way too many mouths to feed on limited income. At one point, there were 7 kids and 2 adults. A family of [...]