ItWhen you’re looking for a quick bite whether for breakfast, lunch, or dinner you can’t go wrong with this Italian Egg Sandwich from Everyday Italian by Giada De Laurentiis. It’s a good bet you have the ingredients for this in your pantry and fridge right now. So the next time you think you have nothing…
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Chopped Liver
One of the most popular appetizers served at a Jewish holiday meal is chopped liver. For those not familiar with this dish, I admit the name itself is not something that might entice you to read further, but you’ll be missing out on a delicious treat if you don’t. It works well as a cocktail…
Honey Cakes For A Sweet Year
The Jewish New Year known as Rosh Hashanah begins this evening. It marks the beginning of the Jewish Calendar with this year being 5771. Over the centuries, it has become associated with many food customs such as eating sweet foods to symbolize hopes for a “Sweet New Year”. It is customary to dip apples and…
Frozen Bloody Mary Shrimp Cocktail This is a really interesting recipe I found online that comes from Tyler Florence. You can choose to serve the Bloody Mary on the rocks as a beverage or, and this is the really interesting part, pour it into metal molds, freeze for 4 hours or overnight, unmold on a…
Breakfast Bread Pudding
Yesterday we had some family and friends over for Sunday brunch. The weather was perfect so we began by having a pitcher of Bloody Marys and some shrimp on the patio. I will share the shrimp dish with you on a future post. The rest of the menu included homemade waffles and Ina Garten’s Breakfast…
cellaneous misSince it was our aunt’s birthday the day before, we wanted to celebrate it at our brunch. I put together a little impromptu birthday cake with some sweet little mini-cupcakes purchased at Whole Foods Market. I decorated each with a plump raspberry and tiered them on a cake stand. Store bought cake is usually…
Chicken Teriyaki
My son is visiting from LA this week and I’m in all my glory cooking for him. Any and all requests are fulfilled. He always jokes that I may not have a particular store bought prepared food in the house, but I will always have the ingredients to make it! Or it’s a good bet…
Macaroni And Cheese
Mac and cheese, the ultimate comfort food…there’ s something about that combination of melted cheese and pasta that takes us all back to our individual childhoods. Whether your mom made it from a box or from scratch didn’t really matter…the end result was always yummy and fun to eat. My mother, who was an excellent…
SWEET-SOUR BBQ SAUCE Let me begin this post by saying we all have our weaknesses, and mine is this recipe for Sweet-Sour BBQ Sauce, which in our family has become known as Mom’s BBQ Sauce. I’ve been making it since I first found the recipe in a Woman’s Day magazine…okay, it was 40 years ago,…
Blueberry Muffins And Blogs
This morning I woke up early, grabbed a cup of coffee, and started looking at food blogs, the number of which seems endless. Until I began this blog recently I had not spent much time searching them out. I found it quite inspiring. I would like to share with you two which I particularly enjoyed…smitten…