This recipe is from my friend Carol the Pampered Chef Consultant. If you haven’t met Carol yet, I highly encourage you to like her on facebook. She has such wonderful …

Have I mentioned that I got fresh-caught walleye for my birthday? My parents showed up to visit for my birthday weekend and they handed me these two plastic containers … …

The bananas start getting spotty … then they get a little more spotty … then the spots sort of take over … and they get super mushy … like so …

Inspired by Lemony Thyme and my wonderful wonderful parents Fish, shrimp and corn chowder, with potatoes, onion, celery, carrot, and green chile, laced with the salty goodness of bacon and a …

Sweet, salty and crunchy: popcorn and toasted pecans drizzled with white and dark chocolate, dusted with crushed peppermint candy cane bits and coarse sea salt. It was 6 am Christmas …

A hot, relaxing cocktail made with herbal orange tea, brandy and kumquat syrup. The perfect nightcap on a cold winter’s night. I used to have a glass of wine before …

Slightly adapted from Cooking Light In Italy, lentils are supposed to symbolize money and good fortune for the coming year, so I thought it would be fun to make something …

I made this dip for a guest post for Steve at The Black Peppercorn last summer while he was on vacation. There were some requests on my facebook page for the recipe, …

Adapted from Lark’s Country Heart It’s funny how things happen. Today I woke up and was checking my facebook. I stumbled across this lovely cranberry coffee cake from my sweet …

It doesn’t happen very often that my teenage son actually COOKS for me … he decided he was going to make some scrambled eggs for himself the other morning (HIS …