Archive for June, 2010

In my last post, I showed you how to make yummy mashed sweet potatoes.  Today, I share my favorite pork chop recipe with you (that just-so-happens to complement the mashed sweet potatoes perfectly).  See how I did that?  I’m so tricky, I know.  Please, hold your applause. I’ve mentioned before that I read Cuisine At [...]

It kinda feels like cheating to write a whole post for this recipe, but, then I remember how awesome these mashed sweet potatoes are. This recipe is quite easy.  I started making these about 5 years ago and I get requests for them all the time.  Every so often, I get the urge to toy [...]

It’s hard to believe I’ve been blogging for two months already. I guess I tend to get so focused on each recipe, each photo and each blog post that it’s hard to keep track of how many I’ve already submitted.  Though I still have TONS to learn about blogging, writing, photography, food, marketing (this list [...]

A couple weeks ago, I read Nicole’s post on Cooking After Five for Orange-Scented Olive Oil Muffins.  In her post, Nicole mentions she likes to bake muffins for road trips.  [Insert glass shattering]  I’d never considered baking muffins for road trips, but it makes so much sense!  What a wonderful idea. And great timing, too, [...]

For Father’s Day this year, to show my appreciation for Dustin, I asked him if there was something special he would like me to make.   Anything was on the table: rack of lamb, lobster, steak… Nothing’s too good or expensive for the wonderful father of our baby girl. Well, his eyes lit up, he [...]

Ask and you shall receive!  You have spoken (well, you have been polled)…and it’s SWEETS you would like to see more often on my blog.  I will do my best to incorporate lots of sweets recipes in the future.  The things I do for you.  Heehee.  Yum! Thanks for your feedback!  I really appreciate you [...]

You know how they say, “Having a kid changes everything”? Well, I have never really been a “meatball person.” (Stay with me on this…) For some reason, I just didn’t like ‘em. Then, in 2008, I got pregnant and everything changed.  It really did. Suddenly, I craved meatballs to no end.  I’d make meatball stroganoff, [...]

I find that people are often surprised that I make my own tomato sauce.  I think they imagine me spending hours and hours over the stove with tons of ingredients.  Truth is: it’s pretty darn easy and only requires a few simple ingredients. Italian food is one of my many, many, many favorite types of [...]

Dustin, Jordan and I decided to check out our local Farmers Market in 4S Ranch this week. We had high hopes it would be the Farmers Market we’ve been looking for. No, this isn’t an epic quest for the Farmers Market, but Dustin and I are really a little snobbish picky when it comes to [...]

I don’t know about you, but, for me, a good chewy chocolate chip cookie can just make my day. Several years ago, I watched an episode of Good Eats on the Food Network in which Alton Brown (awesome guy, by the way) talked about the three main ways people like to have their chocolate chip [...]