Appetizer, Dips and Sauces, Featured, Food & Recipes, holidays |
So this is the best homemade spinach dip ever. It’s hot and gooey, rich and cheesy, salty and creamy. Basically it is everything that spinach dip should be. My version evolved out of Emeril Lagasse’s recipe for spinach dip on the food network website, I took a few...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Seafood |
This is a simple, simple dish. The instructions could read mix up sauce, grill salmon, then eat; but that would not be a very fun blog post. So I will tell you about this recipe’s inspiration. It started from a watching this strange daytime show The Chew that has...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pork |
Pork Roast Stuffed with Spinach and Gorgonzola I love a nice pork roast, it’s tasty, versatile, and cheap. Don’t confuse the affordable roast with the pricey and also tasty little tenderloins. I like especially to butterfly the roasts and fill them with all kinds of...
Chicken, Featured, Food & Recipes, Main Courses |
I love nectarines, they are by far my favorite stone fruit but buying them in South Florida is a bit like a box of chocolate, you never know what you are going to get (sorry about the Forrest Gump reference). Many times they go from under-ripe to rotten, never getting...
Dining Out, Lifestyle, Manners, Uncategorized |
Using the Correct Fork Matters to Me Last night my husband and I were kid free and decided to head out to a nice little local restaurant for a simple dinner. This little Italian bistro is not fancy but they home make the pasta and the owners are good people and part...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Seafood, Uncategorized |
Living in South Florida we are lucky to often receive gifts of freshly caught fish from friends and family that are successful fisher-persons. As a native Floridian I know that you graciously accept the gift then wait until you get home to see exactly what you have,...
Chicken, Food & Recipes, Main Courses |
This chicken dinner is one time when being spineless is fabulous. This is a comfort meal if ever there was one. Juicy roasted chicken flavored with fresh rosemary and delicious potatoes that are basted with the chicken’s own drippings as they cook. It is easy to...
Chicken, Food & Recipes, Main Courses |
After a weekend of eating lots of bad-for-me-food to celebrate my birthday I am back and on the straight and narrow path of eating what’s good for me, and this Basil Chicken with White Cannellini Beans is the prefect meal. Most healthy dinners do not really entice the...
Appetizer, Food & Recipes, holidays, Side dishes, Traeger Grilling |
This is a very self indulgent post, it’s all things I love: figs, blue cheese, and Prosciutto. I am drooling just recalling how great these crispy prosciutto wrapped figs tasted, we made a nice dinner out of them by adding a nice dry white wine and big salad. I...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Seafood |
This grilled shrimp with mango salsa and cilantro rice has now supplanted all others as my husband’s favorite grilled shrimp meal, it is light, colorful and so very tasty so I am happy to make it whenever he asks. This recipe was the result of my needing a simple fun...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pizza, Traeger Grilling |
You can grill pizza on any BBQ, but I just bought a Traeger Junior Pellet Grill and it is awesome for grilled pizza. If you have always loved that little bit of char that wood burning ovens at restaurants can put on a thin pizza crust you need to try pizza on a grill....
Deserts, Food & Recipes |
My family is a family of chocoholics, so I had to give them a chocolate oatmeal cookie as they turn their noses up in disgust at a standard oatmeal raisin cookies. I decided to adapt the Great Harvest Bread Company’s oatmeal cookies to their tastes by going chocolate...