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Baked Hasselback Potatoes
July 2, 2010 – 12:47 pm | 8 Comments
Baked Hasselback Potatoes

Life is weird and wonderful.
My plan for this week was to enjoy being home with my girls, relaxing by the pool and doing some fun baking and crafts with them. No running around, nowhere we …

Bacon Wrapped Scallops (with garlic butter!)
June 29, 2010 – 8:20 am | 3 Comments
Bacon Wrapped Scallops (with garlic butter!)

Welcome to an easy appetizer, served at our Five Ingredient Dinner Party! The key here is the garlic butter (IMHO), but you can decide for yourself. Try adding a good dose of freshly cracked pepper (or use pepper-crusted bacon). And I haven’t tried it, but chipotle and brown sugar bacon would be pretty amazing! But then how can you go wrong with bacon, scallops, butter and garlic? :-)

Foodbuzz 24×24: The Five Ingredient Dinner Party
June 27, 2010 – 3:55 pm | 5 Comments
Foodbuzz 24×24: The Five Ingredient Dinner Party

Throwing a dinner party can be stressful, time consuming and expensive. That’s why for this month’s Foodbuzz 24 proposal I thought a Five-Ingredient Dinner Party was in order. Every dish at our party had five or less ingredients, from appetizer down to dessert!

BEERamisu
June 22, 2010 – 8:31 am | 3 Comments
BEERamisu

I’m not sure who came up with the recipe first…the folks in the video or in the recipe below. Either way, it’s something I plan on trying as soon as possible! :-) I’ll update the …

Raspberry Lemon Pudding Cakes
June 15, 2010 – 7:45 am | 2 Comments
Raspberry Lemon Pudding Cakes

Summer is here! This is the final week of school for my kindergartener (sniff…) and then summer will “officially” have arrived. I can’t wait to sleep in next week and spend some lazy days at …

Nutella Mousse
March 16, 2010 – 1:22 am | 40 Comments
Nutella Mousse

Okay, so you know how much I love an easy recipe that delivers huge, right? 

Chicken Wellington
February 25, 2010 – 2:59 pm | 5 Comments
Chicken Wellington

Puff pastry rocks!  There are so many things you can do with it and it will always make you look like a rock star.  I love using it to make palmiers (I’ll definitely post that …

chocolate bowls…and a bit of chocolate orange mousse
February 21, 2010 – 10:04 am | 16 Comments
chocolate bowls…and a bit of chocolate orange mousse

Chocolate cups!  Chocolate-orange mousse!  Strawberries!  It all adds up to an amazing dessert that will impress your friends and family – yet they’ll never have to know how crazy easy it was to throw together.

stuffed baby heirloom tomatoes
July 14, 2009 – 3:33 pm | 10 Comments
stuffed baby heirloom tomatoes

I’m in love with heirloom tomatoes!  I’ve always loved tomatoes – any shape, color or size – but heirlooms hold all the flavor that I remember from my childhood.  My parents had a huge vegetable …

soft shell crab – easy and delicious!
June 23, 2009 – 6:12 am | 5 Comments
soft shell crab – easy and delicious!

Soft shell crab is one of those things that has always seemed rather mysterious to me. It wasn’t until a
few years ago that I even knew what it was (crab without its shell? …