Comfort Food. – Food that feeds your body and your soul. This Cheesy Ham and Hashbrown Breakfast Casserole is Comfort Food. It is a food that when eaten with family and friends, nourishes, comforts, fills and satisfies. It’s food that causes silence and then a chorus of sighs and mmmmmmmms. This is the food of…
Pickled cucumbers are easy to make and a perfect summer cookout side dish or snack by the pool on a hot summer day There are certain foods that evoke strong memories for me. Memories of summer, laughter, family and security. These pickled cucumbers are one of those foods. Crisp, vinegary, tart, slightly sweet yet tangy…
Scalloped Potatoes, Coffee Malts, Berry Lemonade, Macaroni and Cheese and Ham. All featured, devoured and LOVED at our Spring Brunch last weekend. (full disclosure: I hosted the Spring Brunch House Party as a part of my Kitchenista fabulousness) I’m going to show y’all the video and then share the insanely delicious and easy recipes. Now…
Do you plan your Easter Menu? Easter Menus can be daunting, the planning.. down right frightening. Do you serve Ham or Lamb? How many side dishes do you make? Do you serve appetizers? For my family, it’s always been Ham on Easter, Turkey at Thanksgiving and Chili on Christmas Eve. If this is the first…
Know what those are? Those are the Mashed Potatoes that won the Tastemaker 2K10 Cook off Challenge at Blissdom. and they’re mine. 🙂 I can’t even begin to put into words how much fun the Tastemaker Challenge was. Crazy, loud, exhilarating, insane, silly, fun, tasty… They did such a good job driving us crazy keeping…
The time is near, the culmination of the past three months of potato mashin’ and the battle of the spuds, it’s time to peel back the layers and see who’s the …. Okay, I’m fried. I have no more tater puns. Seriously, It’s only 3 weeks until the Blissdom conference! Where on Friday night, we…
These are not your typical twice baked potatoes… Oh no, these particular twice baked taters… these are made in the microwave. Yes. In the microwave and in under 30 minutes. These twice baked potatoes are my final recipe and video for the 2K10 Tastemaker Challenge. This month our challenge was Nutrition in a Time Crunch. …
Southern Style Black-eyed peas Texans, Blackeyed Peas and New Year’s are pretty much synonymous. Blackeyed Peas are eaten in Texas (and many other southern states) on New Year’s Day because they are believed to bring prosperity for the coming year. This superstition tradition is so firmly ingrained in us Texans that even Blackeyed pea…
This Cheesy, Chipotle, Corn and Zucchini casserole is simply, in a word ~ tonguegasmic. I was telling Nathan what all goes into it and he looked at me with that raised eyebrow and the corner of his mouth quirked in that annoyingly smug way and said; “Well, just make sure there’s more than just that…
Savor those ingredients in your mind for a moment. Pork Tenderloin. YUM. Orange Chipotle Marinade. YUM (it’s better than you can imagine) Grilled Veggies. DROOL That’s like a triple tonguegasm there y’all. So here’s the dealio… I was given the opportunity (iTunes giftcard) to download and review the Kraft iFood assistant app for my iPhone. …
Can I get a glory, glory Hallelujah!!! Please? I FINALLY have the Tastemaker Challenge 2 recipe and video ready to share with y’all! This video has been almost comical with the issues it’s had. Lost camera, video software crashing, things deleting, hiccuping and flat out disappearing on me. BUT, it’s ready! This month’s Tastemaker 2K10…
This is one of my MUST haves for Thanksgiving and Christmas meals. It is delicious, rich, savory, creamy, a hint of spicy and absolutely the best take on a cornbread stuffing/pudding that I’ve ever had. This dish is the epitome of Tonguegasmic. One bite and you’ll be thanking me and your friends and family will…