Fluffy Chocolate Frosting
The midweek Bible study was upon me again and I needed a dessert for a crowd. I had planned on making these outrageous brownies but earlier in the day (through the social media marvel that is facebook) I learned that one of our new regulars was having a birthday. Birthday cake it is! I think that …
Pineapple Cream Cheese Pie
This pie is uber yummy and oh so easy to make. I make it often for potlucks because the recipe is easy to double or quadruple and it makes me sound like a rockstar when I say that I will show up someplace with 4 pies. :) It’s also the pie I bring when I …
Homemade Tooth Powder
When preparing to share this recipe with you all I was trying to decide how long I wanted this post to be. Did I want to talk about the evil chemicals that lurk within the average tube of toothpaste on the grocery store shelf? Did I want to talk about the fact that fluoride is …
Grilled Sweet Chili Pork Loin
I love it when an invention in the kitchen pays off on the taste buds. This is one such recipe. It was Sunday night. The dogs needed a bath, there was laundry to be dealt with, a rented Mark Wahlberg movie to watch and general prep stuff that needed to be done in order to …
Waffles of Insane Greatness
This title doesn’t lie! Man, this recipe makes the perfect waffle! They are fluffy on the inside and crisp on the outside and they just taste like pure waffle heaven. They are the house standard waffle around here. Every time I serve them the happy eaters of these waffles can’t get over how wonderful they …
Creamy Lemon Pound Cake
Mike loves lemon desserts so whenever I see a recipe for a new one I’ve just gotta try it. I made two of these pound cakes for yesterday’s fellowship dinner in order to feed 30. Everyone enjoyed it and ate it with freshly whipped cream and a big bowl of sliced and lightly sugared strawberries. …
Seared Salmon with Balsamic Glaze
Don’t you just love it when you go to a restaurant and you order something that has become one of their popular dishes and then you taste it and BAM… you realize… your version is better? Has that ever happened to you? Well whether it has or it has not… it’s about to happen to …
New England Clam and Corn Chowder
I love’s me some clam chowda… trouble is… with all the cream and salt pork and butter… it doesn’t love me back. When we lived in San Clemente California we had a favorite restaurant by the pier that we would visit often. They had the best clam chowder there. I would order it almost every …
Simple Roasted Chicken of Deliciousness
This recipe originates from Thomas Keller’s cookbook Bouchon and is simply titled “Simple Roast Chicken” but it tastes too good to be called that…hence the name change. It’s quick to put together, no fuss in the oven and it doesn’t even take long to cook. The skin is crisp and the meat is juicy and tender. The …
Outrageous Brownies
The title of this recipe tells no lies. I was first attracted to this recipe because it serves 32! Let’s be honest… when has there ever been enough brownies at an event? So I knew I wanted to make this recipe based on the recipe yield alone. Then I took a look at the ingredients. …