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When I was a little girl, my mom used to make potato pancakes every once in a while. My dad always put maple syrup on them and treated this savory dish as a regular pancake. Always wanting to be like my Daddy, I put syrup on them too....a (read full article)
I am sure there is a better name for this dish. My parents went to Mexico and then on a cruise down around the Panama Canal earlier this year, stopping in various places along the way. Mom came back raving about the food and swearing neve (read full article)
Our local grocery stores often run specials on pork loins, those huge logs of lean, boneless meat. At $1.67, sometimes less, per pound, it is about the cheapest way for me to buy good quality cuts of pork. I cut them into chops, I cut th (read full article)
The problem with searching for the "perfect" chocolate chip cookie, is that opinions are subjective. What I like in a cookie, maybe you don't. A recipe that one person raves over may seem blah to the next. When I saw America's Test (read full article)
I don't know about you, but I am all about easy in the summer. We sleep in, we stay up, we go to the pool, we forget that in a mere two weeks, we will be getting up between 5-5:30am to get ready for school...until next June. (UGH). Cooki (read full article)
Because I am an oldest child, over achiever, type A personality, I had to find ways to make my Super Easy Pot Roast completely from scratch. To keep the roast easy, of course, you would have made these mixes up ahead of time. 1/8-1/4 cup (read full article)
Did you know that July 30th is National Cheesecake Day? Well, neither did I until the folks at Driscoll's Berries pointed it out to me. They sent me some fabulous coupons for raspberries and Albertsons kindly cooperated by putting them on (read full article)
This is a throw together, not exactly made from scratch recipe, but is it ever tasty. Mouth watering tasty.Served with cream cheese mashed potatoes and dilled carrots, it is comfort food at its best. And is doesn't heat up the house; esp (read full article)
Before I set about writing this post, I did a Google search of "homemade caramels." I found a few other bloggers who posted their adventures with stoves and candy thermometers and caramels that turned into hard toffee like substances. (read full article)
Have you ever made shrimp scampi and been left with just shrimp...no sauce (because everyone wanted more than their fair share of buttery yum on their pasta)? Well, I had just such a case happen to me. I had another unexpected leftove (read full article)
This is my oldest son's favorite homemade candy. While he was attending a summer school program at one of the local universities, I made him some. Living away from home five days a week and eating cafeteria food got old after the first we (read full article)
It's a funny thing. Ice cream makers usually make their appearances during the hot summer months, but peppermint ice cream only shows up in grocery stores during December. For the other eleven months of the year, we get no peppermint and (read full article)
Don't Forget to enter to win a $40 CSN Gift Certificate HERE It is just too hot. I know, I know, "You live in Arizona, Kristen. It's supposed to be hot. It's not like you live in one of the regions of the U.S. that is unusually hot (read full article)
Frankly, I would like a food chemist to tell me why these cookies turn out. Egg, peanut butter and sugar. That's it. No flour, no soda, no vanilla, no butter...it's not what I have been making for 20 years, but I wanted simple. &nbs (read full article)
There is nothing like a homemade tortilla. We have a tortilla "factory" in our little town (which is to say, there is a tiny store front where a Latin family slaves in the Arizona heat six days a week to make fresh tortillas). Those corn (read full article)
This month marks a year that I have lived in Arizona (not counting the four that I lived here when I was a teenager). It's really interesting how different my perspective is as an adult versus what I thought of this state when I was fifteen. & (read full article)
I love stuffed pastas. Fill them with cheese, meat, vegetables, it really doesn't matter. Cover them with any kind of sauce, it doesn't matter. Just give me stuffed pastas. These little babies are Buitoni's. It takes four packages to feed (read full article)
This is the halfway mark! Only 26 more to go and I will have fulfilled my new year's resolution (it may be the only one I succeed in completing - I obviously need to make myself more accountable next year!). Anyway, back to the Make Your (read full article)
Enter to win some Tropical Traditions coconut oil like I used in the following recipe here. In all the experimenting I did with the Tropical Traditions coconut oil I received a few weeks ago, this is by far my favorite. It's coconut, ging (read full article)
Two weeks ago, I received a quart of Gold Label Standard Virgin Coconut Oil from Tropical Traditions. I was so excited to try out this new-to-me cooking oil. The first thing I did was open the jar and simple inhale the wonderful aroma. &n (read full article)
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