Check out Kalyn’s Kitchen later for a round-up of Weekend Herb Blogging, a fun event where we learn new recipes for great herbs. I made some yummy beets earlier this week, but it felt wasteful to just toss the beet greens. But I have never cooked them before and was nervous. After searching and...
Read more →Well, it’s Tuesday again (funny how it comes around every week, isn’t it?). And that means that it is time for Sweetnick’s ARF/5-A-Day Tuesday. If you haven’t heard of it, check it out. Cate from Sweetnicks challenges us to up our fruit and veggie intake and get in those powerful antioxidant rich foods. The...
Read more →Try these in Stacked Steak Asiago Sandwiches. Homemade Crispy Onion Straws serves 4 2 medium onions, sliced thinly and separated into rings 3/4 cup all purpose flour 1 tsp chili powder 1 tsp paprika salt to taste vegetable oil. Place onions in a medium bowl and add flour chili powder and paprika. Stir until...
Read more →This sandwich idea came to me when I had a few sandwich steaks laying around and I wasn’t sure what to do with them besides cook them. After a little poking around I decided that using some Asiago, tomatoes and some yummy crunchy homemade fried onion straws could be the start of a beautiful...
Read more →Several years ago, I began having dizzy spells almost everyday. The culprit? An iron deficiency, not quite severe enough to be anemia, but bad enough to effect my daily life. At the time I was vegetarian. Although I had a diet that included iron-rich foods like beans and green leafy veggies, my body wasn’t...
Read more →I promised something unique. Something different. Something unusual. And now, I am delivering. This was a brainstorm of mine one evening. You see, I set out to buy some puff pastry dough at the grocery store. In my madness, I bought Phyllo dough instead. Could we talk about more different? Phyllo is thin sheets...
Read more →Well here I am. Cucina Bella is up and running again. Hopefully there won’t be any further delays either. I’ve just been so busy lately. But now I am back and there will be quite a few new recipes this week for some different types of dishes sure to get your taste buds moving....
Read more →There I was, with my detailed list in hand, walking with a purpose through Super Stop and Shop. I just needed to grab one tomato and some fruit and I would be through with the produce section. But as I rounded the corner near the tomatoes it caught my eye. In all it’s purple...
Read more →Chocolate Chip Pie serves 6-8 1 unbaked 9 inch pie shell (I used a graham cracker premade one) 2 large eggs 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1/2 cup packed brown sugar 3/4 cup butter, softened 1 tbsp vanilla extract 10 oz chocolate chips (I used Hershey’s Mini Kisses) Preheat oven to...
Read more →Well, it’s Sunday again. Palm Sunday, in fact. So it’s time for Kalyn’s Kitchen’s Weekend Herb Blogging, Sweetnicks’ Weekend Dog Blogging and Weekend Cat Blogging at Eat Stuff. Check in later tonight for round ups of each event. I’ve been on a big pasta kick for a while with my Weekend Herb Blogging entries....
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