A few days ago Granny brought me these three jars of food items she canned last week. I have only opened the chili sauce. It is so good you want to just eat it straight from the jar with a spoon! The pickled beets and lemon cucumbers are still marinating for now. The main reason…
Getting a 2.5 Year Old to Eat Fiber One Cereal
Our 2.5 year old has had a touch of tummy trouble lately. Dr’s orders: Feed him fiber, lots of fiber! I don’t know if you have ever read the label on a box of Fiber One but it has 14 grams of fiber per 1/2 cup serving. I think I read somewhere that an adult human is suppose…
Seafood Mac & Cheese
Wouldn’t Scott Conant just croak if he saw this post! He’s always ranting about something. “Oh I hate raw red onions! You can’t pair cheese and seafood! etc….” Well there are probably many things wrong “culinarily” with these ingredients individually and collectively in many cases, but for some reason when they all come together in “this…
Press Page & A Giveaway
I am going to brag about me for just a minute! I finally got to add a press page to my blog because I got some PRESS, YAY! One of the fabulous people from Huffington Post, Kitchen Daily somehow found my post about my Peanut Butter Cheesecake Stuffed With Chocolate Frosted Cake Doughnuts. They decided…
My First Culinary Competition
1st. Place. Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars 2 nd. Place, Apple Grape Pie Last weekend I competed in my first ever cooking competition. First of all, I did not win. Now that’s out of the way I can talk about the rest of it. It was a competition in which you were given one ingredient…
Tri-Cereal, Chocolate, Peanut Butter, and Pretzel Bars
I grew up in an extremely religious community. The kind of community that would band together and deliver whenever a child was born, a person was sick, or a person died. Including me, I come from a family with five children. I am the second child and I have three younger brothers. I remember the…