Monday, July 27th, 2009
This is a fabulous chicken caesar salad with a delicious creamy dressing with none of the fears of raw eggs. I don’t mind using raw eggs in my cooking, but many people are put off by the idea, so I created this easy homemade version of the classic chicken caesar salad. We eat this as [...]
Monday, July 20th, 2009
This was my husband’s birthday cake. My husband adores coffee and chocolate, so I had to combine the two in this delicious birthday cake. This is a super moist devil’s food cake with kahlua ganache topping, and coffee flavored butter-cream frosting.
Monday, July 13th, 2009
These are my favorite Mexican treats. They are supper easy to do. Flautas are much like taquitos, except, taquitos are much skinnier and made with smaller corn tortillas and usually have cheese. Flautas are made with larger flour tortillas, and can have more filling in them, because of the larger tortilla used. I bake my [...]
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
This is a super easy and simple way to make the very popular guacamole. This is a staple at our table whenever we are having any Mexican inspired dishes, or just for dipping. I have tried adding different things to my guacamole, but I always go back to this simple recipe. I really like to [...]
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Did you know that you were asking for rooster’s beak when you order pico de gallo at the Mexican restaurant? I didn’t. I thought I knew some Spanish, I knew gallo for rooster, but I didn’t put it together, and this came as a big surprise to me. According to Winkled, this salad is called [...]
Monday, July 6th, 2009
This is my version of Arroz con Frijoles Negro, or Black Beans and Rice. I first had this dish at a local Cuban restaurant. I absolutely love black beans, and combining them in this classic rice dish brings out the flavors wonderfully. I came up with this recipe after surveying my cuban friends about how [...]
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
This is a delicious recipe for lemon blueberry buckle. Blueberries are in season and very sweet. They are very nutritious and bursting with antioxidants. It is a perfect recipe for all those sweet in season blueberries. I came up with this recipe after researching several. It turned out really tasty, light and not too sweet. [...]
Saturday, July 4th, 2009
This is a delicious variation of my families classic butter palm biscuit recipe. It is very simple to make and full of flavor. I made these for my husband on Father’s day, and they were gone by the afternoon, he could not stop munching on them. And these are a lot easier to make at [...]
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
This is my version of homemade french fries. The secret of my version is in the frying oil. I picked this up from my mother. She was very frugal and kept and reused frying oil. When she made french fries, from scratch, or frozen, she always used frying oil that had already been used to [...]
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
This is one of the simplest ways to roast a chicken, and one of the most delicious. Don’t use lemon pepper sprinkle, use real lemons. It is so simple and easy. Do yourself a favor when roasting a chicken and purchase a digital probe oven thermometer with a timer. This will make sure your meat [...]
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