In my hometown of Stockton, there was a restaurant that was an old style quintessential steak house. Classic steak dishes with an Italian flare. Dimly lit with candles on the tables, a waitress with a transparent beehive and a smokers rasp, was likely your server. This place, was called Stockton Joe’s. My dad loved this…
Orange Spiced Cashews
Nuts! Or in this case, legumes… I love cashews. Buttery and sweet these things don’t last long in our house. I made deez nuts for our trip. I’m writing this from our flight to Orlando. We are about to spend the next weekish in the “happiest place on earth”! Well, I don’t know about happiest……
Spiced Zucchini Bread
Every year my mom, aunt and grandma would gather during the holidays and have a baking/candy making extravaganza! It was a sight to behold and the sheer volume of their goods was enough to feed an army. The yield from this day known only as “Candy Making” has been a staple in my holiday life…
Croissant Bread Pudding & A Maple Butter Glaze
How’s that strike you for a Fat Tuesday post? I needed to shoot a “Brunch Story” for work and one of the products was a beautiful ceramic baking dish. I immediately had visions of bread pudding dancing through my head! I’ve been wanting to do a croissant version of this classic breakfast bake and this…
Mindful Monday and your Crock-Pot
Listen, the Crock-Pot needs to be a staple in the lives of busy families everywhere! Not only does it provide a means to a delicious meal with minimal effort, but you can make a lot at one time which makes for easy meal prep! This weeks meal prep is the tortilla-less burrito! All of the…
Pomegranate Orange Scones
My big kid LOVES a good scone. In fact, given the choice between a scone and most any other pastry, we will always go with the scone. He’s even become a scone critic. He wants crumbly but not dry, sweet but not cloyingly so… He’s nine. What the hell, kid? Eat a muffin and shut…
Rose Petal Lemonade
Our AC unit went out the other day and we had to spend two, yes two, full days without air conditioning! *GASP* One of those days was a highly unusual mid-week day off. So, I was home in that mess and it was as hot as balls up in here! I decided that I needed…
Weeknight Shrimp Over Rice
This is no culinary masterpiece, but who has time to be Picasso mid-week? This simple dish was satisfying, healthy and easy. Perfect for a weeknight meal where the rigors of homework, chores and the school night HooHah are the priority. There is no excuse not to eat real food, when in 20 minutes you can…
Fat Tuesday: Caramel Corn Butter Cake
Yep! You read that right, I said Caramel Corn Butter Cake! I can’t think of a more delicious sounding sentence, can you? We had a work event and I wanted to bring something especially decadent… This fit the bill. The buttery flavor of the bundt cake, the caramel topping, combined with the caramel corn was…
Mindful Monday: Spicy Cabbage Peanut Salad
This Asian inspired salad is a crunchy mouth party! The Rock Star LOVES Thai food. We were having some friends over and I decided to do some Thai flavors. One of the side dishes was this salad. Crunchy red cabbage and chopped snow peas are the star of the show but they get set off…
Rosemary Olive Dutch Oven Bread
I used to make bread with my Grandma. I mentioned before that this grandma wasn’t the greatest cook. That truth also applied to her homemade bread. It always had a strange grainy texture and an odd after taste. It was SO good, though! I was with her and she was making it for me. Slathered…
Rosemary Pomegranate Prosecco
Sometimes you have stay up late to help your child with a school project that he suddenly realized was due! I mean, it’s not his fault, right? Ummmm… yeah. So, my TGIF cocktail didn’t happen yesterday, but that’s ok! We are going to have a sensational Saturday drank instead 🙂 My pomegranate tree is poppin’…
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