Honey Maple Granola
I love granola and vanilla yogurt with a handful of frozen berries mixed in. I try to keep granola around the house so that when the dessert cravings attack I can make myself a small parfait and feel good about my dessert choice. This granola is easy and yummy. I keep it in a big …
Taco Soup plus a bonus recipe
So dinner was upon me yet again and I had a plan (I menu plan so I always have a plan). Like many a night however, I didn’t feel like making what I had planned. Well, actually I forgot to brine the pork the day before (read recipes carefully people… I should have learned that …
Pumpkin Spiced Latte
Ohhhhhh…WOW! YUM I SAY! Total yum. yum. I’ll stop there but believe me I want to say yum many more times. yum. Sorry. Where was I? Oh yeah, pumpkin latte’s. Hellloooo! I don’t know what it is about this time of year but come mid September until mid December I am ALL ABOUT pumpkin! I …
Buttermilk Pumpkin Waffles
Ever heard the song “Purple Haze” by Jimmy Hendricks? Well, lately I have that song stuck in my head but with slightly different lyrics. ::clears throat and taps wand on podium:: Pumpkin craze all in my brain Lately things just don’t seem the same Actin’ funny, but I don’t know why ’Scuse me while I …
Pan Seared Chicken Breasts with Lemon Chive Pan Sauce
The trouble with chicken breasts is that it doesn’t take much to over cook them and end up with a dry, rubbery, piece of meat. Blech. This recipe from the good people of America’s Test Kitchen has solved that problem with a great cooking technique in which the chicken is partially cooked in the oven …
Libby’s Coffee Cake
Sometimes I just want a good piece of coffee cake. I have lots of recipes for coffee cake. I find that the ones I like the best have the traditional streusel somewhere in the mix. I like biting into a pillowy soft piece of cake and being treated to a sugary, cinnamony, nutty bite every …
Best Ever Baking Powder Biscuits
I was always on the hunt for a good biscuit. I mean a really good biscuit. Well, I ended that hunt when I found an Alton Brown recipe for baking powder biscuits. They are in fact a really good biscuit. Then one day, I happened upon this biscuit recipe that promised to be the “best …
Chocolate Marshmallow Filled Whoopie Pies
Do you like making Whoopie…(pies)? Get your mind out of the gutter. ;-) Have you made them before? Well if not, let me be the first to tell you that these little cookie/cake/brownie desserts are so pillowy soft that they belong in the bedroom. Hey, maybe that’s how they got their name. Whatever they are …
Crispy Honey Chicken
Oh how we loved our Asian food take-out when we lived in the States. Pick Up Styx was our fave! Then we moved to Japan. Japan has so many wonderful things to eat and the sushi is… well… we had to move to Japan to find the best sushi on earth. With all that …
Pumpkin Risotto
Do you know who Gordan Ramsay is? He’s a celebrity chef with amazing talent and a potty mouth. I have envisioned myself saying to him “You taste good food with that mouth?!” Anyhow, I have seen him rip into the flesh of the hopeful chef for serving subpar risotto. ”YOU CALL THIS bleepity bleepity bleep …