Category: Recipe Highlight
Sweetnicks’ Chocolate S’mores Cookies
Among friends, you can be yourself. Even if that means they giggle at the funny way you describe how food should sound when pulled from the oven. Among friends you can admit your faults and not be judged. They fill life with laughter and joy. And when things aren’t awesome, they lend their ears and [...]
Top 10 Recipes of 2011 on Sarah’s Cucina Bella
Chocolate Peppermint Cake in a Jar This fun recipe is a delicious chocolate cake with a layer of peppermint patty and topped with a rich chocolate ganache and bits of candy cane. It’s as pretty as it is tasty. Fool-Proof Herbed Turkey Gravy Making gravy was always a challenge for me until I discovered that [...]
10 Delicious New Year’s Eve Appetizers
What do you do on New Year’s Eve? Nearly every year for as long as I can remember, I have stayed home, watched a movie and ate some delicious food. At midnight, I always have some sort of sparkling wine or champagne. Back when I was a teen, our family tradition was to eat a [...]
An Extra-Special Oatmeal: Apple-Style
The kids and I have been battling a wretched cold that has us speaking with rasps and coveting soft, smooth food. It hasn’t led to much creativity in the kitchen. Not fun. I cannot wait to get back to our happy, healthy, cough-free selves. But, that doesn’t mean we don’t eat. We are still eating [...]
A Light Breakfast Indulgence
Recently, I’ve discovered a morning meal that throws my notion of “I’m not a breakfast person,” completely on its head. Seriously, I could eat this day in and day out without complaint. It’s just that good. The idea is simple: Take one half of an English muffin — yes, just one half. We’re trying to [...]
Cooking Break: Thighs Over Rice
I have a confession. Some days, I just don’t feel like cooking. I know, I know, it’s hard to believe. I love to cook, and love to write about cooking. I love feeding people good food and showing others that you needn’t have a degree from a high and mighty culinary school to make a [...]
Extra Easy Cinnamon Rolls with Vanilla Bean Glaze
NOTE: Updated with new photos and slight edit on the recipe on 5/2/2011 I am not apologizing for this. I thought I would come on here and tell you how I rarely use prepared anything. And then I would discuss how I love starting our meals from fresh, whole ingredients and seeing then mix and [...]
Tasty Mornings: Banana Pancakes
When I was in the fifth grade, my math teacher was going around the room, asking all the students what they had for breakfast. She got to me and, without missing a beat, I said ‘nothing.’ Her whole lesson was thrown off by that revelation. What? A fifth grader who didn’t eat in the morning? [...]
