Dark Chocolate Coconut Banana Coffee Cake
I am a mass killer of bananas; so I invented chocolate coconut banana coffee cake. I feel so guilty about wasting over ripe bananas. I over buy and we under consume bananas on a regular basis. As a result I am always looking for ideas to use them up. I make quite a...
Raisin Cane: Sugarcane Farm and Refinery Tour
Since the arrival of Columbus sugarcane has been a staple of Florida agriculture. And today more than ever sugar is big business in the sunshine state. Both farm owners and workers across the sunshine state rely on the industry to survive. The Florida sugar industry...
Nutmeg Wine Cake with Fig Buttercream Frosting
I have made nutmeg wine cake in the past as a way to jazz up box cake mix in a pinch, but those cakes always left me uninspired. I would make them as a bunt cake with some fresh fruit or simple glaze over the top and I always felt like the flavors were...
Meet Michelle…I firmly believe that if you passed high school chemistry you can learn to cook well, and I know that $50 at a grocery store will yield you more delicious food than $50 spent at most restaurants ever could. At my home the wine is good, the company great and the food is fabulous. There is no reason why it can’t be the same at your house! Together we can all cook better than most restaurants. Read More
Grilled Pizzas–BBQ Chicken & Italian Salami
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....
Kind of Healthy Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
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...
Grilled London Broil with Drunken Onions
Grilled London Broil with Drunken Onions My family loves nothing better than a big hunk of meat, so when I find London broil on sale I know it will fit the bill. Marinating and then grilling this large piece of meat results in a beautiful presentation with a nice char...
Indian Lime Spiced Chicken Wings
Indian Lime Spiced Chicken Wings These chicken wings are everything you love about tandoori chicken and crispy roasted chicken skin all in one bite. I love, love, love Greek yogurt as a marinade on skin on chicken, the flavor from any spices you mix into yogurt...
Sweet Potato Fruit Dip
I am always looking for a healthy after school snacks for the girls, and this sweet potato fruit dip seems to fill the bill plus they actually ate it. I have been making a white bean hummus for a while and while most of the kids like it a few flat out refuse, they...
Overnight Whole Grain Success with Oatmeal
Most days everyone in the house has to be out the door by 7am. And we have a diverse set of appetites: a 13 year old looking for an early morning sugar rush we would rather she did not have, a chronically late 16 year old ballerina that needs calories for 6 hours of...
Braised Sweet and Sour Red Cabbage with Country Style Pork Spareribs
These braised spareribs are very yummy and very simple meal to make. The red cabbage so colorful and flavorful, the flavors so big that you can use this meal for a dinner party but it’s so little work that you can throw it together on a week night. If you really want...
Chorizo Baked Black Beans
These black beans are a modification of an awesome one pot chicken meal that Emeril Lagasse has in his cookbook: Sizzling Skillets and Other One-Pot Wonders, chicken and black beans with chorizo. I loved the black beans that are the base of the chicken dish but I...
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