• Login into Foodily with Facebook Connect, find a great grilling recipe on Foodily.com then share it with your friends
• Post a comment on this blog post below or Tweet your recipe with the hashtag #4thofJulyGrilling and cc: @Foodily with a few words on why you chose it.

It’s a win-win. You check out Foodily and find some great recipes, you share the recipes with your friends and in the meantime, you get the chance to win a great prize from Foodily and Juliet Mae Fine Spices. Good luck and happy grilling!

Disclosure: I am a compensated Foodily Brand Ambassador and was given this opportunity by Clever Girls Collective, Inc. All opinions expressed are my own.

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That’s how things have been for me around here lately. I’ve been under the weather since a week ago Thursday. I went to the doctor on Monday, got some med’s and was on the upswing and then bam… got knocked down again last night.  I hope that things return to a normal state soon…no energy and no appetite is no fun (although I don’t mind the weight loss that is along for the ride… that can stay around as long as it likes).

Anyway, the picture above really should be of a brunch item… it should, but it isn’t. It is of Triple Chocolate Cookies and as far as I’m concerned, if you serve these at brunch, you’ll have friends coming out of the woodwork wanting invitations to your brunches from now on.

If you are looking for traditional recipes for an early morning Easter brunch, I can help with that too. I was searching around on Foodily to create an Easter Brunch Menu and came up with a few things I’d like to serve to our morning guests on Easter morning. How about:

• Minted Fruit Salad
• Ham and Mushroom Frittata
• Sausage Breakfast Casserole
• Strawberry Corn Muffins
• Pastor Ryan’s Monkey Bread
• Mimosas
• (and Triple Chocolate Cookies)…fits right in, doesn’t it?

Recipe: Triple Chocolate Cookies (from the blog Family, Friends and Food)

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
3/4 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup white chocolate chips
1 cup milk chocolate chips

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine flour through salt in a bowl and combine. Set aside.
2. In a large bowl, combine butter through granulated sugar using an electric mixer. Beat until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time and beat well after each one is added. Beat in vanilla.
3. While the mixer is beating at a slow speed, gradually add the flour mixture. Beat until blended. Using a spatula or wooden spoon, add in the chips and mix well.
4. Drop the dough by tablespoonfuls onto cookie sheets covered with parchment paper. Bake for 7-11 minutes, or until puffed and the edges are set.
5. Cool for 5 minutes on cookie sheets, then remove to wire racks to cool completely. Store in airtight containers, with wax paper between layers of cookies.

Disclosure – I am an ambassador for Foodily. All opinions are my own.

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I’m not Irish, however I married a full-blown Irish man, so that makes me what they call “Irish by Marriage”.

What I have found out, through my 11 years of marriage to an Irish man, is that once you are “in” with the Irish, your entire life starts to become very Irish. Green suddenly becomes your favorite color. Gifts for your home start pouring in, many adorned with an Irish saying or shamrocks. When you run down the list of options for kids names, you begin to notice most of them have Irish roots… Kelly, Megan, Molly, Collin, Patrick.

You would think my initiation into the world of the Irish would leave me with an abundance of ideas for a St. Patrick’s Day feast, but it hasn’t. What do the Irish like to eat? From my experience? Ice cream, whiskey and beer. Now you know the secret to why Irish people are always so chipper… it isn’t from the Corned Beef and Cabbage, I can tell you that!

I decided to turn to the Foodily recipe site for a St. Patrick’s Day menu since as much as it would be fun to live off of ice cream, whiskey and beer, some people (non-Irish people, I assure you) may frown upon that. For this St. Patrick’s Day, we are going to feast on:

• Beef and Irish Stout Stew
• Bourbon Carrots
• White Soda Bread
• Irish Potato Salad
• St. Patrick’s Day Grasshopper Ice Cream Cocktails (recipe below)

So, let me tell you a bit about Grasshoppers. I don’t know that this is truly an Irish dessert, but at most occasions within our family, Grasshoppers are somewhere to be found. We most always have a bucket ready to serve in our freezer. The minty flavor of Grasshoppers plus the green tint just make me think of St. Patrick’s Day, so we’re going to go with that.

When I texted my husband at work to get the recipe, I discovered that he doesn’t really have a recipe. He bases it all on the taste and feel of the ice cream, which was a total light bulb moment for me… if he’s tasting the grasshoppers as he makes them, that then explains why he is always so chipper when he’s done making them. I think I want to be on grasshopper making duty next time!

Recipe: St. Patrick’s Day Grasshopper Ice Cream Cocktails

• 5 Quart Plastic Bucket of Vanilla Ice Cream
• 3 shots of Creme de Menthe liquor
• 1 shot of Creme de Cacao liquor
• 1 shot of Irish Whiskey (We prefer Jameson brand)

Place all ingredients in a large bowl. Knead together by using two large ice cream paddles or spoons or use your stand mixer and knead using your bread hook attachment. Once well blended you can either serve or place back in the freezer to re-freeze. If desired, top with whipped cream. (Adjust liquor to taste. For a darker green and stronger mint flavor, add more Creme de Menthe)

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Love is in the air…haven’t you noticed? All it takes is a simple browse through blog world and you’ll see heart shaped this, pink colored that… everything is taking on a beautiful romantic hue!

Speaking of that special four letter word, I am assuming one reason you are here is because you kind of love food. Am I right? Well, if you love food, there is a special new site I want to tell you about! Foodily. Foodily stands for Food I Love you and it is the hottest thing to hit the food world in awhile. If you love recipes, love sharing great things with your friends on Facebook and love beautiful photos, Foodily is for you. It’s like Facebook but for food. Foodily is integrated with Facebook, so you can easily share the recipes you find great with your friends, and vice versa.

In my kind of language, Foodily is a unique recipe search engine that features recipes from a broad spectrum of chefs and bloggers (like me!) from across the internet and then gives those searching the recipes the opportunity to share what they find and love with others. Go ahead and try it out for yourself! In fact, since we are in the mood for love, why don’t you take a minute and share your Valentine’s Day menu and you could have a chance to be featured on the Foodily site!

Here’s what you need to do:

1. Go to Foodily.com and login with Facebook Connect (or create a login).
2. Play around with recipes and find your favorites to create a perfectly delish Valentine’s Day meal!
3. Once you’ve selected a recipe save it to a menu. From the recipe, select the “save” button, save it as an appetizer, main, etc., and then it’ll ask you to name your menu. Create your special Valentine’s menu title. Continue adding recipes and saving to that menu
4. View your menu (either from tab at top or from your profile) and grab the URL (you can also share your menu on Facebook and grab the URL there). Note: the URL will look similar to this: http://foodily.com/m/1234
5. Tweet the following and be sure to include the #foodilyvdaymenu hashtag at the end:  Check out my @foodily Valentine’s Day menu! Create one of your own! http//(your menu URL here) #foodilyvdaymenu
6. Foodily will be watching and selecting menu winners daily to be featured on the Foodily site!
7. Note: You can also enter by sharing your menu on Foodily’s Facebook wall.

For example, my ideal valentine’s day menu would look something like this…

A Queen of Hearts Cocktail followed by this Herbed Garden Salad with Goat Cheese. We’d have a nice Peppered Fillet with a Grainy Mustard Cream Sauce, Roasted Garlic Fingerling Potatoes in Thyme and Butter and Orange Scented Green Beans. For dessert, it is all about the chocolate and nothing says love more to me than a Chocolate Lava Cake. I kind of doubt that my Valentine’s Dinner will realistically look anything like this, but a girl can dream, right?

Take a few minutes to check out the Foodily site. It takes some getting used to, but once you figure out the ins and outs, I’m  pretty sure you’ll be shouting from the rooftops… Food I Love You! Have fun and happy exploring.

I am part of a team of paid Foodily ambassadors. The opinions within this post are my own.

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