Party Potatoes

Phew!  What a long couple of weeks!  But alas, I am back with a recipe for you.  Actually, I had three recipes previously that I was very excited to share, but none of them were quite worthy.  I can’t quite bring myself to post a recipe that could still be improved or…

Banana Snack Cake With Honey Cinnamon Glaze

Isn’t snack cake a most wonderful name for a food?  It implies that it is a sweet, moist cake that you can, well, snack on.  Meaning, eat whenever you like as a snack!  I mean, really!  That is like the best thing ever!  And this recipe is much like all other snack cakes. …

Parmesan Dip & Butternut Squash Crostini

Well, it is done.  A fast and furious hour and a half long cocktail party that I have been pondering the menu for for the last year, came and went.  As Selma from Night Court once said, “I laughed.  I cried.  It became a part of me.” OK.  So I didn’t cry.  But…

Spice Muffins W/Pumpkin, Chocolate, & Streusal

I had every intention of posting this yesterday.  Or even the day before that.  I don’t like it when this much time passes between posts. But my Internet was down.  For yesterday and most of today actually.  And I was pretty sick yesterday.  And tired.  And kinda cold.  So I wasn’t that…

Baja Fish Tacos

I confess.  If you had asked me, oh say, ten or twelve years ago, if I liked fish tacos, my answer would have been a very firm “No.”  The fact that I had never had a fish taco at that time would have been irrelevant.  I am from Minnesota you see, and we…

Lemon-Herb Deviled Eggs & New Easter Traditions

Is that an oxymoron?  New traditions?  I suppose, or nothing would ever change would it?  And my life seems to be all about change lately… In the interest of wanting to start some new traditions, I of course went straight to food.  Usually, when I read a recipe, I can pretty much guess…

Crockpot Chocolate Mess

My crock pot has again become my favorite appliance in the kitchen.  Not because it is perfectly convenient during construction.  Not because it happened to be one of the only kitchen items accessible in the piles of belongings temporarily stored in our basement.  But because it has been the key element in…

Freezer Coffee Cake

And I’m not talking toaster waffles, my friend!  I am talking coffee cake.  That dessert-for-breakfast-but-we-all-pretend-like-its-ok type of deal.  My Mom made coffee cake all the time when I was a kid and I am happy to pass down the unhealthy tradition to my kids.  There was that time my brother thought he would…

Chicken Salad

My soon to be famous chicken salad.  At least, I think so. Chicken salad, I assume, is a staple in most homes, gracing the lunch boxes and sack lunches of American children everywhere.  I make it quite regularly in my own home, but I can’t recall eating it even once when I was…

Mini Corn Muffins

These little gems are perfect with Indian Summer Chili.  They are also good to whip up in the summer when you want a little something to go with a salad. Mini Corn Muffins Adapted from Bon Appetit Recipe modified 2/28/13 Mix together in a medium bowl: 1/4 c sour cream 1/4 c…

Blueberry Sour Cream Coffee Cake Muffins

I ‘heart’ Ina Garten.  And these muffins! I have said it before and I will say it again.  The woman is awesome.  For those of you that have missed my references to her in previous blogs (and there have been many) she has a show called Barefoot Contessa on The Food Network. …

Corn Casserole

The year was 1996 and I had just graduated from high school.  It was my first week at college and I was sitting at a computer and ‘surfing’ the Internet for one of the first times in my life.  Yes, for all you youngin’s out there, the Internet really isn’t that old. …