I have a self imposed rule in my house, no Christmas anything until after Thanksgiving. One holiday at a time please. There is good and bad in my rule, less stress before Thanksgiving and probable more stress afterwards since I don’t do anything early…normally. When I got my Secret Recipe Club assignment “Mom’s Crazy Cooking”, […]
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Biscochitos
I have a problem. It’s been building for months, an insidious problem that won’t go away. It’s fat, it’s been building up and now it is about to bust it seams and get out of control. Something had to be done! The best treatment for getting rid of fat? Cookies! I know what your thinking, […]
Cream Cheese Cake Mix Cookies
We had our first ever cookie exchange at work. The deal was: bring two dozen cookies, of the same or different kind, you come home with two dozen cookies that someone else baked. Since I’m not a big fan of baking (except doing my duty during the holidays and other special occasions), I was excited […]
Steak with Grilled Jalapeno and Pineapple
It’s 4:oo am and I smell a camp fire, but then I hear sirens….close sirens……….really close sirens……… I drag myself out of be and look out my bedroom window and I see smoke billowing out from behind our garage. I grab my hoody, my camera, leave the dog inside and putter out to see, with […]
Cuba Libre
Thanks Angie for requesting this one, it gave me an excuse to have one on a Sunday Night. Not that I need an excuse, but it helps me rationalize. This is my all time favorite cocktail, it’s simple but sounds exotic. McGyver turned me onto this when we started dating. Of course he had no […]