At home we just call this “Jen’s Potato Salad”. Jen is my bestie, next to McGyver she is my soulmate. How lucky I feel to have a friend that I can share, unabashedly everything. Besides being a great confidant, she’s a pretty awesome cook too. When we were stationed together in Germany she made her […]
For the longest time I had a dislike for cream sauce, it seemed as if it was used to cover up food that no child in their right mind would like. Lutefisk and peas in my case. Now put some cheese in the white sauce and it was a whole different ball game, but I […]
Gimme some sugar…some sugared cranberries that is. Sometimes some things are truly simply and in that simplicity they are also truly delightful. Like sugared cranberries. There’s only three ingredients, if you count water as an ingredient. They are as lovely to look at as they are tasty to eat. Coated in a simple syrup then […]
Poutine, for you non-Candians or non-Northern Americans you may have never heard of Poutine. Poutine (pronounced poo-tin on the french side of Canada and poo-teen on the west side of Canada) is a dish created in Quebec during the 1950’s. It has 3 components: french fried potatoes, gravy and cheese curds a.k.a. squeaky cheese. Ever since I […]
Guess what I’m off to this weekend? Ah-yep, goin to the cabin! Not just me and McGyver but my BFF and her boy. I’m planning on having some fun and drinking some beer. Speaking of BFF’s I originally got my fav Spanish Rice recipe from her. It’s simple and easy and I like that. I […]
How did I get so lucky? I can’t believe that for the second time in my Secret Recipe Club that I’ve been assigned to Chelsy’s Blog Mangia! I had several recipes ‘secretly pinned’ to try, one of them was non-food but a 3-ingredient Coconut body scrub (first I need to find coconut sugar), and I […]
Already I’m feeling like I’m starting the new year a bit disorganized, in the month of January I have two major life events happening, one of which I can’t speak freely about till it’s done and the other, well it’s either going to rock my world or destroy it, so I’m hanging on to that […]
Did Christmas really come and go that fast? Is the New Year so close to being around the corner? Of course it’s no surprise when Christmas rolls around and when the New Year begins and yet every year I feel like it sneaks up on me. I think it has to do with the end […]
There are so many things that I love about Thanksgiving, after all it is a holiday centered on food. It’s a time when families and friends gather together and mostly enjoy the holiday. A holiday steeped in tradition. I’ve done my share of experimenting with different flavors and dishes. Sometimes the new flavors were stunners, […]
Every year I teach a Turkey 101 class, we cover all you need to know about preparing the star of the show for Thanksgiving. For class we deep fry a turkey, usually McGyver is out in the freezing cold (this year it was 4°F) while I jabber on about turkeys and the attributes of boxed […]
