St. Patrick’s Day
I love St. Patrick’s Day, even if you weren’t born Irish, you get to be Irish for one day of the year. Holiday’s are celebrated with food. Here is a roundup of my favorite Irish recipes. My grandmother was Irish, and her parents came over from Ireland, so growing up, I would love [...]

Colcannon, a couple of years ago, I didn’t know what this was. Colcannon is mashed potatoes with cooked cabbage inside of them. Thanks to a close friend of mine, and her instance that I should try these, I did. You know what? They are delicious. This is an Irish comfort [...]

Raglan Road located in Downtown Disney makes the most wonderful Guinness dipping sauce. When St. Patrick’s Day comes around people are dusting off their recipes for Irish Soda Bread, well I have the perfect dipping sauce for you. Guinness is reduced down along with sugar and makes a wonderful tangy dipping sauce for [...]

Vanilla sugar can be found in high end gourmet and spice stores. Have you ever wondered how to make vanilla sugar? Vanilla sugar does not come inexpensively; you may wonder how to make vanilla sugar. Vanilla sugar can be used in many different ways, instead of regular sugar, use vanilla sugar in [...]

One of my favorite things to eat when going out is pan seared lamb chops. I don’t know why this happens to be the case, lamb chops aren’t difficult to cook. Lamb chops can be found in your everyday grocery store. Lamb may cost a bit more than beef, but you know it [...]

I almost didn’t want to share this with you. I am a grown woman, and I love, no I *LOVE* Frito Pies. My love for a Frito pie happened many years ago, it happened at a football game. Not only was I in love with the half back, well I loved this mysterious dish as [...]

The Olive Garden is known for their creamy chicken and gnocchi soup.  This is a rich soup that you can make a full meal from this soup alone.  This soup features roasted chicken, potato gnocchi, carrots, celery, and spinach.    Soup warms the soul, and this soup is no exception.  It is not likely that you will [...]

Some of you might wonder what in the world I am talking about, I know not everyone has heard of Hamentashen. These are delightful cookies you can fill with anything your heart desires. These triangle shaped cookies are traditionally filled with poppy seeds, prune preserves, apricot preserves. I have typically with a bunch of other [...]

So the first time I ever tried these cookies was at my friend Tina’s house. She is quite the baker. Actually she is a fantastic baker, and I generally leave her house inspired to do more cooking. Last year at Christmas she did a massive amount of baking, and these were one of the cookies [...]

Denny’s is the first restaurant I know that is selling an appetizer for breakfast, those appetizers are pancake puppies. Pancake puppies are crispy balls of pancake that are fried and then rolled in powdered sugar. There are currently two flavors, plain, and then this one, the blueberry and white chocolate pancake puppies. If you like [...]

Bagels for breakfast are one of my favorite types of breakfast. One thing I really enjoy from the bagel places is the wonderful cream cheese spreads they have available. When made fresh they seem to have a flavor that is free from additives, and your cream cheese spreads so nicely over your bagel. [...]

I am so frustrated with my spice cabinet. I can’t even begin to describe how much. I have encountered this a great deal several times in the last week. I have a small galley style kitchen. So while my love for spices is grand, my space for them well is quite frankly not so grand. [...]

Chocolate truffles are rich and creamy mouthfuls of soft chocolate. Truffles in the stores, if you can find them often are very expensive, but with a little time and patience, you will be making sumptuous chocolate truffles for the people you love the most.

Years ago, I used to make lots of chocolates for the holidays. [...]

You can make your nachos extra special like Mitzi’ does by making her own specially spiced refried beans.  Mitzi entered our first Super Bowl recipe contest and we wanted to share her recipe with you.   Nachos are wonderful, you can add all sorts of toppings to these nachos, guacamole, sour cream, peppers, olives, well you [...]

Here is Kim’s entry for our first Super Bowl recipe contest, for chicken bites that are wrapped in bacon, and dredged in a brown sugar and spice mixture, that is wrapped with bacon.  Talk about delicious!  Sweet and salty flavors go well together.  These are perfect to make for your next party.  
1 pound chicken tenders, [...]