When I was at the grocery store last week, I picked up some ground beef to make spaghetti sauce. I have been using a Southern-style meat sauce recipe for over a year now that I picked up on allrecipes.com. I started out just following the recipe but now I’ve totally...
Fish are healthy food but let’s be real — they stink and they taste… well, they taste fishy. And that’s often more than enough to turn people off. There are a number of benefits to eating fish but these benefits are often overshadowed by the smell and taste of fish....
Have you ever shucked an oyster? It's not as complicated as you might think... Oysters are all the rage here in Florida. In some local restaurants, you'll pay up to $6.00 per shuck. But did you know you might be able to buy them for as little as $0.50 per oyster at...
Coffee comes in a wide range of options, which can have a price tag of $1 to $12 per pound. In some cases, the price per pound doesn’t reflect the quality of coffee you want. Typically, your choice has to do with personal tastes and preferences. Also, you don’t want...
Germans are big fans of the dumplings. Some are made from bread, others from potatoes, and all of them taste pretty fantastic. Of the two, bread dumplings are a bit easier to make and there’s really very few ingredients or steps involved. It’s really a matter of...
When was the last time you used your microwave? Most of us think of that hulking box on the countertop as nothing but a reheater, a preparer of ready meals (note: it is also possible to have microwaves fitted over the cooking range to reduce space on the countertop) ,...
This summer, while we were on vacation with friends in that lovely little house in Key West, we all took turns cooking dinner. One day, we had a LOT of leftover sirloin...so we decided to make sandwiches from it. Luke, one of our friends, insisted that we must have...
Do you ever find yourself in this scenario? You come from the grocery store and you've got a ton of shopping bags in the back of your car. Maybe it's one of those days and one bag falls over...you use lose a can of corn under a seat and some sour cream rolls to the...
I live an extremely busy life as a business owner, wife, mother and active member of my local community. There are often not enough hours in the day to accomplish everything I'd like to get done...and there have been dozens of times that I wished I had a clone......
Now that we’re into fall, my culinary thoughts are starting to shift from salads to soups and even though the sun’s still shining in Florida you can’t beat some homemade comfort food. Regular readers will know from my blog that I don’t typically cook Asian food but I...
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