You know it’s happened to you: last minute dinner guests, no food in the house, what can you serve? Your pantry is always stocked with a jar of pasta sauce and this-and-that you can use to throw together a good meal — really! In fact, I’ll bet you can make three fit-for-company meals with what […]
The great thing about making a Gazpacho Mary is that most of the ingredients in Gazpacho can be found in your Bloody Mary mix or your vodka: hot sauce? In the mix. Pepper? In the vodka, if you choose Absolut PEPPAR. All you have to do is blend a cucumber into the mix and choose […]
For this week’s Brew Review, I went with something a bit on the heavy side, and one of the 22-ouncers from the “big bottle” shelf of the store: Great Divide‘s Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout. Yes, I did another Great Divide review last week. So much for diversity, huh? I originally picked this beer up […]
Did you have grapefruit this morning? This may seem like an odd question, but it’s National Grapefruit Month and I was thinking about it, and I don’t think I’ve had an actual grapefruit for breakfast (or lunch, dinner, or snack either) in over a decade. Maybe even a couple of decades. Part of this is […]
The best part about family recipes that have been passed down may not always be the actual recipe. Sometimes, it is the memory the recipe invokes. Growing up, I remember going to my Nana’s house frequently for dinner, sometimes with just my family and sometimes with my aunts, uncles and cousins. I’ve got to say, […]
When was the last time you were attacked by the chocolate monster? I was sabotaged just last night. There I was, lounging on my couch and vegging out to old episodes of Mythbusters (of all things!) on NetFlix when the craving struck. I wanted chocolate. In a very extreme way. This was a craving that […]
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: you really can shove just about anything inside a sheet of nori and have it taste good. On thing I’ll admit to never having tried though, is hamburger maki. Yes, you read that right: I’ve found a recipe for a hamburger sushi roll. Before you go […]
I was forced to buy an Aerogarden. When it came right down to it, I really didn’t have a choice. I had been flirting with the idea for quite a while as the infomercials always fascinated me. I wanted one, but there were some concerns. It looked like it was really big, and my place […]
Keith and I have this “thing” we do when we go out to eat. We’ll look at the menu, but until we hear the specials from our server, we don’t make a decision about what we’ll be ordering. Here’s why: we can always order off the menu, right? But a special’s a special, and it’s […]
My spice rack consists of a store-bought rack that came with the spices/herbs. Even if the rack came with spices I knew of, I had no idea when to use at least half of them! So I did a quick web search to enlighten me in the uses of spices and herbs. Here I share […]