Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! Everyone has a favorite snack. A recipe for a go-to stress reliever, mindless munching or a quick nosh for get-togethers. For me, that is a bean dip. Whether white bean, black bean or garbanzo bean, there are so many possibilities […]
Month: March 2012
Bloggy Con …2012
Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! Calling ALL local bloggers! I will be attending the Bloggy Conference 2012 held in Cincinnati, Ohio September 27-29. I would Love to meet some of you there and I wanted to make sure I shared the link. You will see that there is also a Buddy Package so […]
Bumping Up the List ….
Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! Originally Published in the Greenwood Daily Journal Saturday March 10, 2011 Last year about this time I told you all that I had a list, a bucket list of sorts, of culinary delights that I have not yet mastered or […]
Rainbow Rice…
Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! Brown rice can really be boring on it’s own but add several hand fulls of small sized diced or shredded veggies and you completely transform it from blah to fantastic in 2 seconds. I frequently make use of a new […]
Crispy Orange Glazed Roasted Duck
Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! Crispy orange glazed roasted duck is a delicious dish with great flavors. Get out of the chicken rut and make this quick, easy roast duck recipe instead. When you cook as much as I do you really get in a […]
Healthy Wheat Berry White Bean Vegetable Salad
Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! Wheat berry white bean salad is a healthy, hearty, and easy side dish recipe. This is a fiber-rich, healthy salad with wheat berries, white beans, and vegetables, tossed with a tangy vinaigrette dressing. I don’t know if it is just me, but it […]
National Maple Syrup Festival with King Arthur Flour
Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! Don’t forget! If you are near Indiana there is a great event this weekend in Medora, Indiana: The National Maple Syrup Festival! I am very excited to be a food judge in the Sweet Victory Challenge baking contest sponsored by King Arthur […]
Laughing Cow Queso Salsa Dip
Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! I love, LOVE cheese. Do I eat a lot of it, no. Should I , probably not. But, I do add a wedge of Laughing Cow Cheese or 2 here and there because the average wedge has less calories and fat […]
Strawberry Coffee Cake….
Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! I have made several coffee cakes but very few did I feel that I would ever make twice. That’s the problem with cooking as much as I do. I make something once never to make it again. This coffee cake, however, I have made 3 […]
Cheddar Beef Snack Bread
Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! Cheddar beef snack bread is made with a light dough, filled with sliced beef and shredded cheddar cheese. It’s the perfect brunch appetizer, game day food, or after school snack! Every year it seems that I make the same things for Easter […]
A weekend with King Arthur Flour and Burton Maplewood Farm
Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! Originally Published in the Greenwood Daily Journal Saturday March 3, 2012 I just got back from a very informative writers conference in Nashville, Tennessee. I spent 4 days in the Opryland Hotel with 750 other woman who were writers, bloggers […]
Oprah Next Chapter…with Paula Deen
Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! One of the many highlights of my time in Nashville, Tennessee at the BlissDom conference was getting to preview a sneek-peek of “Oprah’s Next Chapter” on the OWN network. Oprah Winfrey’s new primetime series “Oprah’s Next Chapter” features the “Queen […]