This Mandarin Pork Recipe with Wild Rice is perfect for your quick and easy weeknight meal needs. Hi friends! I’m just sharing a quick post today as I’m preparing for my Golden Globes party tonight. I just wanted to share this quick and easy recipe with you all for Mandarin Pork and Wild Rice. The…
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Food & Wine Magazine 100 Tastes to Try in 2007 – Taste #15 Aspen Kettle Corn
Kettle corn and Food and Wine Magazine. Seems like an odd combination, doesn’t it? That’s what I first thought when I noticed that Aspen Kettle Corn was taste #15 in Food and Wine Magazine’s 100 Tastes to Try in 2007. What could possibly make something as simple as kettle corn so special that it gets…
Food & Wine Magazine 100 Tastes to Try in 2007 – Taste #4 Greek Olive Oil
My first official “Must Taste” of 2007 is Food and Wine Magazine’s #4 taste – Greek Olive Oil. I’ve actually had the pleasure of tasting Greek Olive Oil in the past, but decided to do things right and give it a try in the year 2007. The olive oil I decided to use for this…
Bread, Glorious Bread!
If you haven’t figured this out already, I’m a carb girl. I love a loaf of fresh baked bread and I am convinced that I could live on bread alone. I have yet to meet a bread I didn’t like. That’s not to say that I haven’t had a few bread making disasters in my…
Bring Something Fancy… like Jello!
It doesn’t get more simple than Jello Jigglers! Here’s a basic recipe for this famous Jello dessert! You know you’ll be attending a very kid friendly event when the hostess asks you to bring something fancy, and by fancy she means a jello recipe. My college roommate, Mikki, invited us over to their house in…
Menu Planning
One of my goals for 2007 is to start menu planning again. I used to make a menu plan on a monthly basis and was quite obsessive about it, but since we moved to our new house and added another baby to the family, my old menu planning habits have fallen by the wayside. These…
Stinky Breath
What do you make when you find yourself home alone for the weekend, without a husband in sight, when you are sick of sweets and hearty food, and you’ve been reading about delicious salad’s all week and you have some wonderful new Alejandro & Martin Olive Oil that you want to try out? Me? I…
Please…no more cookies!
Our Santa decided several years ago that by this time in the holiday season, he is up to his ears with cookies. If he has to gobble down one more thumbprint, chocolate chip, shortbread, snickerdoodle, sugar cookie, etc. he’ll turn into a cookie himself. You see, Santa’s wife is a little obsessed with baking. She’s…
Is it really okay to eat Puppy Chow??
“Is it really okay to eat Puppy Chow?” This is a question my almost 5 year old son asks me anytime I make this delicious snack. He just can’t get over the fact that we are eating something named after dog food, and that looks like dog food too! I wish it bothered me more…
Chocolate-Dipped Shortbread Cookies
I am constantly making meals for people. Some people donate money, some people scour their house and pack up things to fling to Goodwill, some people volunteer their time, some people have charity auctions. I do those things as well, but what I find myself doing at least once on a weekly basis is cooking…
