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Making garlic breadsticks the easy way

Jul 14, 2009 | Featured, Food

The weather was cooler last week; a nice change from the blazing sun we’d been having. So I thawed out some minestrone soup and decided to make breadsticks to accompany. I’ve never tried making breadsticks before but as usual, with a bread machine, the process can go...

Hickory Smoked Pork Shoulder with Sweet-Tangy Barbecue Sauce

Jul 6, 2009 | Entertaining, Featured, Food

Even when living in a foreign country, the Fourth of July is always a special occasion for us. So we fired up our ugly barrel drum smoker and cooked one mean pork shoulder. We made pulled pork sandwiches out of the finished product which turned out fantastic. This...

Homemade ice cream with fresh berries – Staying cool while enjoying the harvest

Jul 3, 2009 | Food, Garden

Homemade ice cream is SO easy to make with an ice cream machine. I don’t know why I don’t make it more often. Maybe it’s the fear of then having to eat it all! 🙂 But seriously, if you use a no-cook recipe for ice cream, throwing the ingredients together and pouring...

Balsamic Chicken with Beer Rice

Jun 22, 2009 | Food, Mains

Ever on the quest for new recipes, I was flipping through my cookbook Southern Living: 30 Years of Our Best Recipes and came up with the following meal: Balsamic marinated chicken with beer rice and sugared carrots. The balsamic chicken browned beautifully while...

Pressed hot ham & cheese sandwiches – the ghetto way

May 26, 2009 | Food

We decided to have Media Noche the other night, but unfortunately I’m a dork and forgot to put half the ingredients in the sandwiches before we started pressing them. They still turned out awesome (partially in thanks to some REALLY good kettle chips which I’m going...