Herbed and breadcrumb stuffed mushrooms are favorite appetizer finger foods at any event. These bite sized treats can be made fresh or ahead of time. Naturally fresh is best but frozen is convenient.
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Alligator Pears & Citrus
A simple, but unusual salad recipe from Joy of Cooking turned out to be better than expected. The flavor combination of avocado and citrus turned an ordinary salad lunch into something special.
Wavy Chips
Who knew you could create potato chips in the microwave!
Making Recipe
Recipes are formed in a variety of ways: inspiration, diligence, solutions to problems, need, desires, and many others. Recipes don’t have to be complex to be good, they just have to feel, look, taste, and smell good to eat.
Past Banana Blast
I lived in Houston, TX for a time growing up and for a Mother’s Day brunch our family visited Brennan’s of Houston. I was probably all of 7 or 8 at the time. At any rate I was reminded of all of this not by my mom, but by a friend commenting on how much [...]
Sweet and Sour Chicken & Vegetables
I like Asian cooking, well the taste at any rate, and when a recepie came along for a sweet and sour dish with vegetables I wanted to give it a try. The issue for me is the original recipe was a strictly vegetarian preparation using tofu and salad bar vegetables. Sorry, I’m just not that into tofu and having [...]
Scrambled Eggs
I’ve made scrambled eggs most of my life. When my kids were much younger, one egg in a microwave-safe glass bowl for 1 minute was an instant breakfast. Recently I’ve experimented with cooking them on the stove-top attempting to get a really light, fluffy texture. Over the past couple of months I’ve added 1/8 tsp of cream [...]
Popcorn: Reloaded
Like most folks I’ve been seduced by the convenience of microwave popcorn – throw in an bag, hit the “popcorn” button, rinse, repeat. Over the holidays I made some caramel popcorn using the (*gasp*) non-microwave variety and had the oppertuniuty to hone some long forgotten popcorn skills: 2.5 tbsp oil; canola , corn or peanut 1/2 cup un-popped popcorn [...]
Buffalo Wing Sauce
Lately when I need a quick bite to eat I zap some frozen boneless buffalo style chicken pieces. I usually get a bag from Schwan’s – they are more tasty than spicy hot. Still, I like to have them with some store purchased blue cheese dressing to at least make my mouth think they are [...]