Spectacular Eats

If you’re looking for something a bit different and super easy, try out this recipe. I found it over at one of my favorite recipe sites, Recipe Girl.

This recipe makes a very simple and addictive cookies.  I made these for my college aged son who loves ginger snaps.  I made them and ate one [...]

While a certain vegetable might always be available, it is not always cheap. Vegetables are the cheapest when they’re in season. Not only that, they taste soooo much better when they’re in season.

The Food Network. It’s like crack for me. I don’t think there’s a single program on there that I would not watch. From Giada to Alton – I love them all. And on Sunday nights you’ll find me glued to “The Next Food Network Star“. And is it particularly good [...]

This is the 3rd part of my Taste Casting review of the Essencha Tea House in Cincinnati, Ohio.  If you missed the first two segments, you can find them here:  Bubble Tea and Taste Casting Visits the Essencha Tea House.
After our samplings were done, Tracy did one last presentation for us.  She told us all [...]

This is the second installment of my Taste Casting visit to the Essencha Tea House in Cincinnati, Ohio.  If you missed the intro post, you can find it here:  Cincinnati Taste Casting visits the Essencha Tea House .
Tracy Monson, owner and founder of Essencha, presented us with many teas to sample.  We tried Tulsi Apple [...]

I recently joined a new social networking group – Taste Casting.  It’s a group of social media marketers of sorts.  We attend a complimentary tasting in our town (Cincinnati) and in exchange, we blog/Twitter/Facebook about the tasting.  Taste Casting groups are popping up all over the country.  If you’re interested in learning more, visit Taste [...]

With picnic season upon us, I thought I would share one of my favorite salsa recipes.  I love this recipe because it goes together quickly – not to mention that it tastes great.

This salsa is ready to go in our fridge for the night.  We have a picnic to go to tomorrow and I thought [...]

Yep, this Friday’s Fabulous Pick is the lowly cast iron skillet.  Used and abused, it keeps comin’ back for more!

The one above is my cast iron skillet.  I bought this baby about twenty years ago ( I was a young bride : )  ).  It is dire need of “seasoning” as you can see in [...]

This is a great recipe that is “somewhat” low fat… well, lower fat than a pepperoni pizza!  I made this as the “adult” pizza and used the second crust to make a pepperoni pizza for the kids.  This was a real winner and I will definitely be making this again.

I started with cubed chicken that [...]

It’s “Fabulous Friday” again!  And since I made a cake plate to match the logo for “Fabulous Friday” I just had to tell you about it in my post!
On a recent trip to Ikea, I spotted this GORGEOUS robin egg blue plate and bowl.  Isn’t the color just magnificent?

I purchased the bowl and plate (and [...]