New Direction And 4 New Recipes
So if you subscribe to my 365 Clever Cookbooks blog you may be wondering why no new posts. Well, let me tell you, life got in the way. Simply stated my life in the last three weeks involved 2 great vacations and not a lot of time to cook home cooked meals. But isn’t that [...]
Toasted Almond Bundt Cake With Raspberries
Picnics: Delicious Recipes for Outdoor Entertaining When was the last time you went on a picnic? What is stopping you? It doesn’t need to be fancy it just needs to happen. When my kids were little we would grab some sandwiches or grab a pizza and find a spot in a park. It is more [...]
Grilled Potato Salad With Crisp Bacon
Day 149: Al Roker’s Big Bad Book of Barbecue May 29, 2011 I have made a grilled potato salad before and it always surprises my guests. We all have our favorite potato salads that our moms, aunts, sisters or grandmas have made. We may love them with eggs, love it heavy on the mayo or the [...]
Family Meals
I love doing these reviews as it gives you links to all of the recipes I made for the week in one spot. So did you miss any of my family meal posts from the last week (maybe two weeks ago or maybe a month ago)? Once again, never fear, as I will give you [...]
Beer Baked Beans
Now that grilling season is upon us, I now have to look for the perfect side dish to go along with everything that I am pulling off the grill. Baked beans seem to fit the bill. Summer is the only time that we tend to make them in our household. Everyone likes them, but I [...]
Summer Panzanella
Summer is here…..summer is here…..or so the calender tells me! I am choosing to believe that the sun is outside and it is shinning down on us and there is just a slight breeze. When summer is here I really do not like to heat up the oven for very long. Finding meals that can [...]
Beef Medallions With Chorizo Baked Beans
You know by now that I am a fan of quick cooking meals. On week nights, there is nothing better than knowing that you can have a home cooked meal on the table within 30 minutes. Our lives seem to be getting so busy I need meals in seconds. But what I really need to [...]
Croque Monsieur
My kids love to be in the kitchen, ok maybe one of them does. They like it more if I make it and serve it to them and clean up the kitchen and the dishes. But hey, we live in a real family and the kids need to step in and help. One kid cleans up [...]
Cinnamon Pudding Cake
I express love through my cooking….just ask my friends and family and my waistline! So when I go to a friend’s house I like to bring a treat to share or a bottle of wine. Finding something that takes a few minutes to prepare and finding all the ingredients in the house are sometimes a hard [...]
Time To Grill
Finally I think grilling season is here! Add in putting food on a skewer and you have an action packed meal where the energy level for everyone goes up. Everyone loves eating food on a stick! Isn’t that why county fairs now have deep-fried everything on a stick? I love making kabobs as home, but I often [...]
