Category: Miscellaneous

{Chocolate Chip & Cherry Brown-Butter Breakfast Cookies} Actually, these cookies are good at any time of the day, but with added oats and breakfast cereal and, uh fruit, I think these make a marvelous breakfast cookie and they go great … Continue reading → ...

For those of you reading your way through this, I want to share a special ebook from some of my all-time favorite authors! It’s a special edition eBook collection of three of the Innkeeper Chronicles by Ilona Andrews. Instead of … Continue reading → ...

I HATE it when my fresh herbs go bad. Like, really, really hate it. ...

I went to the store last week for a few things. You know, the usual, peanut butter, half & half, a gallon of water (for my cubicle at work for making coffee) and quinoa. I came home from the store … Continue reading → ...

I’ve been told several times to try a grain bowl from Panera. I like Panera for lattes, breakfast soufflés, and pastries, but lunch? No thank you. But I was intrigued by the Mediterranean grain bowl. I haven’t had one yet, … Continue reading → ...

I started this blog a year ago, after several years of going home from work, day after day to an empty house. I was tired of cooking wonderful meals that I ate by myself, packing up the leftovers up for … Continue reading → ...

Did I mention I LOVE food novels? One of my favorite series is the Magical Bakery Mysteries by Bailey Cates Cattrell. The main character, Katie, moves to Savannah to open a bakery with her aunt and uncle. She notices her … Continue reading → ...

This post was originally published in May, but I wanted to update it and combine it with the soup recipe post for Suicide Prevention Month. I started this blog in January 2019, and in the nine months of the existence … Continue reading → ...

Please forgive any malfunctioning menus. I’m working out some issues with my plugins. Thank you! Here’s a photo of baklava I made using my stuffed acorn squash filling to distract you from my broken menus. ...

Did you see my post on Instagram with my version of copycat Panera Soufflés? They were so good and I was able to continue my tradition of having a super fast (socially distanced) breakfast break with my niece before work. … Continue reading → ...

Silly question! Everyone likes BACON right? ...

Many of my recipes are inspired by meals I remember having at my grandmothers house, or that my Mom made, or recipes that have been handed down from generation to generation through my husbands family. I’m excited to bring you … Continue reading → ...

I MUST share this recipe for Instant Pot Greek Chickpea Soup with Lemon & Oregano with you! I’m so excited that it’s fall because soup season has officially started! ...

It’s about time I posted my tried-&-true Sweet & Spicy Salmon Sunday Glaze Recipe! I’m posting this on Friday so you can pick up some nice thick salmon, sriracha and/or gochujang, sesame oil and soy sauce for this weekend! For … Continue reading → ...

It’s National Churro Day so if you’re looking for a fun, nutritional (ahem, cough, cough) churro recipe, try these Sweet Potato Churros! I originally posted about them on a FoodiEbook Friday, back in April when I had finished reading some … Continue reading → ...

This FoodieBook Friday is a revisit to last weeks Pecan & Cherry Stuffed Squash post. I’ve had several requests to post the full No-Knead Olive Skillet Bread recipe. It’s an amazingly moist, easy to make, garlicky, yeasty, salty, olivey treat! … Continue reading → ...

If you love shrimp and especially love shrimp with a little pizazz, you will add this to your weekly rotation! I made it once and my husband has requested it once a week since. My go to shrimp recipes are … Continue reading → ...

Quick, easy four-ingredient salmon cakes. Continue reading → ...

Sometimes I just can’t seem to get much done, or things just don’t turn out quite right… Regardless of getting it right or done, it’s what I learned along that way that matters. Husband says that some of my ugliest … Continue reading → ...

As promised here’s my recipe for banana scones made with white whole wheat, Greek yogurt, with an espresso glaze that would put a smile on any vampire’s face! Wait, this is the second vampire inspired recipe on my blog… I’m … Continue reading → ...

This recipe is so easy it’s almost NOT a recipe! My Sister-in-law makes the best Italian sausage, pepper & onion sandwiches on a crusty hot baked roll. I intended to replicate her recipe for dinner using fresh garden goodies! Unfortunately, … Continue reading → ...

These Pecan & Cinnamon and Hazelnut & Pecan Puff Twists were inspired by one of my favorite books. Sh@dy Charac†ers The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks by Ke!th H*uston. It’s not really a coffee table book, … Continue reading → ...