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| Prep Time: | 20 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 70 Minutes |
A friend gave me this recipe years ago and I started making it for my grandkids, when they come home it's always, Nana you going to make me Meat Boats and Peanut Butter Pie. I gave this recipe to one of my grandsons girlfriend and he took it away from he…
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| Prep Time: | 20 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 45 Minutes |
This is a break from the traditional Irish soda bread in that it contains items that were not common to the average Irish household back in the 1800’s. This was my grandmother’s take on Irish Soda Bread. The best part is that it’s very flavorful and…
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| Prep Time: | 15 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 45 Minutes |
This is the recipe that my great grandmother brought with her from Ireland in the late 1800’s. It’s a very, very common, everyday recipe. It’s uncommon, however, to those unfamiliar with the peasant lifestyle and the lack of extra ingredients. It’…
The OC Foodie Fest is coming in a few days and this is your chance to win 2 tickets to the event! That’s right, here is your chance to win (2) tickets to this AWESOME event. The OC Foodie Fest brings together 50 Gourmet Food Trucks in one plac (read full article)
Are you ready for it? Some of the best Food Trucks in Southern California will be gathering in The OC for the OC Foodie Fest which will take place at the Honda Center in Anaheim. The event takes place on Saturday, August 28 from 11:30am until 7:00pm (read full article)
Cicoria, or chickory, also known in English as 'curly endive', is a staple of the central and southern Italian diet, or at least so it was traditionally. People from Campania like Angelina are said to be especially fond of leafy green vegetables, so (read full article)
It has only taken me six months to choose and purchase a couch and what did I do? I ordered a couch that is the color - Gecko. Hmmmm. What I want is sweet, cream colored slipcovers, but I still have 12 year olds in the house and now maybe a 10 mon (read full article)
Today (FRIDAY) is the last day to enter to WIN this lovely cookbook! CLICK HERE TO ENTER! IF you enter TODAY you get an extra "I'm in to Win" 10 bonus points! Make sure that you say this and leave 10 extra comments! This 262 page book i (read full article)
Here's a 'master recipe' for one of the most common techniques in Italian cookery for preparing vegetables, particularly green, leafy vegetables. The technique is called rispassato in padella or saltato in padella which literally means 'tossed in the (read full article)
Our trip to Cancun last week was wonderful. We stayed at the beautiful Excellence Playa Mujeres which is north of Cancun city. While our girls were busy keeping Fuji Nana and Fuji Papa on their toes, we were busy drinking some of (read full article)
My dear Aunty Peppa was my Nana's sister in-law and best friend. She was ninety-seven years old when she passed away last weekend and her funeral yesterday was one of the most moving I have ever attended. Her life was testimony to the incredible fait (read full article)
This past Saturday 26 different Food Blogger Bake Sales took place across the nation. I participated in the L.A. Food Blogger Bake Sale and what a day we had! Squirrel and I joined forces to bake loaves of Amish White Bread for the sale and then (read full article)
I remember watching my nana eat toasted poundcake. It seemed like such a grown up thing to do. She didn't make her own though. She didn't do any baking that I remember, though I was only seven when she passed away. Likely because being a single mothe (read full article)