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Chocolate Covered Cherry Vegan Ice Cream and it Tastes Amazing

posted August 13, 2010 in My Man's Belly

Vegan Chocolate Cherry Ice Cream This ice cream may be vegan but that doesn’t mean it isn’t bowl licking amazingly delicious.  Who doesn’t like a big bowl of chocolate cherry ice cream that’s good for you too (read full article)

Potato Salad Makes for a Sexy Salad Tossing

posted August 11, 2010 in My Man's Belly

Sexy Healthy Potato Salad Yeah, I said it.  I said potato salad and sexy in the same sentence, and I mean it.  Since when is something that’s cool, creamy and tangy not sexy?  I get it, those bulbous little tubers (potatoes) (read full article)

Make Your Own Butter On Purpose

posted August 10, 2010 in My Man's Belly

Homemade Truffle Butter Have you ever decided to make your own whipped cream instead of using that aerosol can or tub of frozen goo?  Was your heavy whipping cream spinning along nicely and peaking to perfection?  Did your phone ri (read full article)

Super Moist Chocolate Zucchini Cake

posted August 07, 2010 in My Man's Belly

Super Moist Chocolate Zucchini Cake Two things that I know to be fact are: 1 – It can be hard to get your daily requirement of fruits and vegetables. 2 – If you grow zucchini, right about now you’re trying to figure (read full article)

Spicy Roasted Cauliflower Sealed with a Kiss

posted August 04, 2010 in My Man's Belly

Spicy Roasted Cauliflower When Craig goes out of town, it’s time for me to clean up my diet (and that means a short clean detox week).  It’s not like he complains about what I cook, or don’t cook, but having a bowl (read full article)

Do They Serve Asparagus with Creamy Lillet Sauce and King Crab in Stockholm

posted August 03, 2010 in My Man's Belly

Lillet and Mascarpone Cream Sauce Rather than bore you with the “25 Things You Don’t Know About Me,” because I’m pretty sure that after number 7 I’d just be making shit up, I’m going to let you in (read full article)

The Classic Old Fashioned Revisited

posted July 30, 2010 in My Man's Belly

The Classic Old Fashioned Revisited Welcome to the booze town!  I believe that I can officially be known as a booze hound.  In my defense (one of my other skills is that I can make a defense or justification for just about anything (read full article)

Sicilian Stuffed Butternut Squash

posted July 30, 2010 in I SICILIAN

RIpienu di Cucuzza X X This story below was taken from a blog I found on the web, while looking for information on squash. Of course the site had nothing to do with the vegetable except that it is used in the contest of the proverb. “Falla comu v (read full article)

Give Your Man the Butt Part 2 and a Giveaway

posted July 28, 2010 in My Man's Belly

Braised Pork with Peach Butt Rub After a full year (plus a little bit) I am finally doing my first giveaway.  YAY!!!!!!  I’ll get to that in a minute, but rest assured…it’s a really cool package and it’s por (read full article)

Colorful Carrots and Dukkah Oh My

posted July 27, 2010 in My Man's Belly

Rainbow Carrots with Dukkah Dip My international travels this year have introduced me to so many new foods (um, no, not carrots).  Not content with simply trying a dish that I really like and being satisfied with the mere memory, I (read full article)

Homemade Luxardo Maraschino Cherries and Princes

posted July 25, 2010 in My Man's Belly

Homemade Maraschino Cherries This is Part II of the Sour Cherry Series… Yes Virginia, there is such a thing as a discernible cherry in maraschino cherries – if you make your own.  And it’s so easy to make your own (read full article)

The Tradition of Traditions

posted July 22, 2010 in My Man's Belly

The Tradition of Traditions Today’s post is going to seem a bit strange…there’s no cooking involved, and in fact there is no recipe involved either.  Come to think of it, the Relationship Advice part of my post is (read full article)

In-Law Perfect Chocolate Banana Bread

posted July 19, 2010 in My Man's Belly

Dark Chocolate Banana Bread We had a busy weekend around our house this past weekend.  The in-laws invaded moved in for a couple of days.  I don’t know why I get myself in such a tizzy when we have people stay with us.  (No, (read full article)

Making it a Double Date Night

posted July 16, 2010 in My Man's Belly

Making it a Date Night If you’ve been reading My Man’s Belly for any amount of time, you know that I am a huge proponent for having a weekly date night – regardless of what is going on in your life.  These special (read full article)

Deconstructing Black Forest Cake and Princesses

posted July 14, 2010 in My Man's Belly

Deconstructed Black Forest Cake An obsession with sour cherries has been raging in my head lately.  I really wanted to go and pick some of these little red gems.  As a kid, my cousins and I were dragged out season by season to pick (read full article)

Market Challenge Portobello Mushrooms

posted July 12, 2010 in My Man's Belly

Grilled Portobello Mushrooms with Manchego Cheese A few weeks ago, you may remember that I did a Farmer’s Market challenge with my friend Greg from Sippity Sup and challenged him with lavender – from which he made an incr (read full article)

Red and Green Table Grapes Amp Up a Summer Salsa Recipe

posted July 09, 2010 in My Man's Belly

Red and Green Grape Salsa Summer party potlucks…ugh…what to bring?  Of course you can bring the usual brownies, guacamole or macaroni salad…but why be ordinary?  Yes, I pride myself on being different.  Sometimes (read full article)

A Raspberry Vinaigrette and Identity Crisis

posted July 08, 2010 in My Man's Belly

Fresh Raspberry Sauce With summer comes an abundance of warm weather and sunshine (if you don’t live in Southern California), mosquitos and raspberries. This time of year we find ourselves consuming our body weight in fresh ber (read full article)

A Sweet Cornbread Muffin by Another Name Would Taste as Sweet

posted July 05, 2010 in My Man's Belly

Cornbread Muffins Cornbread is one of those classic food items that people seem to have a bond with.  They either grew up munching on the drier more savory cornbread slathered with butter or the sweet cake-like cornbread drizzled wi (read full article)

Pulled and Saucy Without a Grill and BBQ

posted July 02, 2010 in My Man's Belly

Pulled BBQ Chicken and Chipotle Raspberry BBQ Sauce A couple of months ago I found out I had a fan in Texas.  Big deal, right?  No, this is a big deal and how I found out was pretty funny. Back in May, I went to a food blogger camp (read full article)

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