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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? :-)

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.

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? …

Foodbuzz 24, 24, 24: City Girl Goes Organic
April 26, 2009 – 4:42 pm | 31 Comments
Foodbuzz 24, 24, 24: City Girl Goes Organic

Good people.
These are the words that keep popping into my head as I struggle with how to begin writing about my Foodbuzz 24, 24, 24 experience.  But this is supposed to be about food, I …