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These Shrimp May Be Small, But They Pack A Big Punch Of Flavor! I can always count on Jen to have the most interesting and flavorful recipes. Time-after-time, she has come up with some of my favorite recipes, so I always check her site first, just to see what’s cooking in her neck of the woods. [...]
You’ll Be The Hit of Your Holiday Cookie Exchange With This Recipe! Are these the most amazing-looking cookies, or what? They really are that red, it isn’t a camera trick! When I was a child, my great-grandmother would bake “devil’s food cake,” where the chocolate was so dark it had a reddish cast to it. [...]
This Is Not Fried Rice, It Just Tastes Like It Might Be! Does it bother any of you when something new and different comes along and they try to describe it using a slightly-changed, old term? This dish is called Quinoa Fried Rice. Yet there isn’t a grain of rice to be found anywhere in [...]
You Loved These As a Kid, Now Rediscover Them As An Adult. I have always loved tuna sandwiches. My mother packed these in my lunch quite often when I was in elementary school. She liked to alternate them with egg-salad sandwiches. Can you picture just how popular I was in the lunchroom, as I opened [...]
If You Prefer Your Carrots Cooked, You’ll Go Wild Over These! There seem to be two very distinct “camps” when it comes to carrots: those who only love them cooked and those who only love them raw. I used to belong to the camp that would only eat them raw. That is still my preference, [...]
This Is Something You Can Really Sink Your Teeth Into! Tieghan’s really outdone herself with this amazingly delicious recipe! Have you ever craved the taste of something, but wanted it to be just a little bit “more,” somehow? I imagine that is right where Tieghan’s head was at when she created this showstopper recipe. Hmmm….I [...]
Looking For a Quick And Easy After-School Snack? Karen at The Food Charlatan really has a winning recipe here! As she says, “This is the easiest recipe for happiness, in 10 minutes flat.” Sometimes, necessity is the mother of invention. There have been many times when I found myself hard-pressed to come up with a [...]
Now You Can Make This Mexican Street Food In Your Own Home. This time of year, my mind is positively besotted with the huge amounts, and the wide variety, of fresh produce available in my local markets. But I really prefer to cut out the middleman altogether and buy my fresh produce directly from the [...]
Versatile, Refreshing Dip That Also Can Be Served as a Side Dish. By now, you have probably heard of the very popular Mexican street corn, known as Elotes. It is cooked in the husks, and when it is done, the husks are peeled back and it is smothered in some sort of creamy topping and [...]
Fresh, Easy-To-Prepare Salad Lets You Get a Meal on Your Table In Minutes! I absolutely adore chopped salads! They eliminate my major salad complaint: the big, soggy, wilted lettuce leaf I often find lurking in the middle of restaurant salads. So I limit my restaurant excursions to those that serve some kind of chopped salad. [...]