So, this thing keeps happening over and over and over. I find a really great recipe or idea, and right as I am about to post it, one of my favorite food blogs, Our Best Bites, publishes a post of the exact same thing. Sometimes right while I am typing up a post, they will…
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Best Chocolate Chip Cookie’s Ever (after my brother’s recipe)
When I was growing up, my little brother was always the cookie maker in the house. Whenever someone wanted chocolate chip cookies, we would call Riley. It was just kind of his thing, whether he wanted it or not. He just made really good chocolate chip cookies. They were really good, but the other day…
Fried Green Tomatoes
We have a trillion tomatoes on our in our tiny little garden. They are all green. Every time one starts to turn red, the little chipmunk who lives under our air conditioning unit, takes a big bite out of the tomato. I decided to make use of some of those big fat green tomatoes that…
Three-Cheese Baked Macaroni and Cheese with Kielbasa Sausage
Macaroni and cheese is the ultimate comfort food for me. I love it. I absolutely love it. Not the cheap blue-box kind, but the hearty homemade baked kind. Usually a good baked macaroni and cheese calls for a cheese sauce made from a white sauce roux (butter, flour, milk). This recipe that Brown Eyed Baker…
Concord Grape Sherbet
I love all things purple. It’s my favorite color. Purple and green were my wedding colors. I love all my purple clothes. I have an easy time selling the purple shoes at work. I paint my toes light purple more than any other color. Most of all, I love this amazing vibrant ice cream….
Avoiding Kitchen Catastrophe’s
Ok, so just because ya’ll see pretty finished plates of food on my blog, it doesn’t mean I don’t have major catastrophes in the kitchen every once in a while. Just in the last two days I have managed to go grocery shopping and realize I left my wallet home after the groceries were all…
Fudge Popsicles
It is my day off. What does that mean? I’m watching food network on Hulu on my laptop (and maybe the latest episode of the Bachelorette???). I know I should get some cleaning done, but I’m going to take it easy until just before my husband gets home and then I am going to clean…
Kiwifruit Ice Cream
I recently learned that it isn’t good to refer to that brown fuzzy fruit with a green inside as a Kiwi, because a Kiwi is a person from New Zealand. It is also a flightless bird that inhabits the island of New Zealand. So today I give you Kiwifruit ice cream, not Kiwi ice cream….
Harry Potter Sweets: Chocolate Frogs, Peppermint toads, and Licorice Wands
Are you getting excited? I am! Yesterday, I bought tickets online to see Deathly Hallows: Part II in 3D on Friday (Thanks Jess and Seth for the Fandango Gift card! We have been saving it for this very occasion!) Since the show premiers at midnight tomorrow, I really only have two more days to post…
Pumpkin Pasties
“Anything from the trolley? Anything from the trolley?” “Two pumpkin pasties, please.” Do you remember that part in Harry Potter? When Cho orders pumpkin pasties? I have always wanted to try these, and after making them I can see why Cho didn’t just get one! My husband, who lived in England for two years, says…