Recipes

Cooking with Your Kids - Fruit Pizza

Finding fun and yummy recipes for my children are what keeps them loving me and Fruit Pizza is no exception! This recipe is delicious for any age but is especially fun if you want a little helping hand. When my...

What?s Your Favorite Summer Meal?

What’s your favorite straight from the garden summer meal? Mine’s corn on the cob, and tomato onion and lettuce sandwiches. I also love grilled squash, and eggplant. Yum! I’ve been sharing some of my favorite garden recipes at Mother Earth’s Garden. What’s your favorite garden recipe? Image via Stock.xchng Technorati Tags: summer meals,meals from the garden,favorite summer [...]

two fat ladies, one amazing recipe

Heads up: the doyennes of streaky bacon are riding again! The Two Fat Ladies DVD has been released and is available on Amazon as we speak. More generous cocktails, devils on horseback, Edwardian tea sandwiches and saucy tales involving bubble and squeak. Doesn't a Two Fat Ladies marathon sound delicious? Imagine settling in with a proper cup of iced Earl Grey, some decadent nibbles and Jennifer's sotto voce asides or Clarissa's valiant attempts to keep her drunken cohort on task. And when you ta...

Garden Food Links For Your Weekend Enjoyment

It’s the weekend, yeaaay! Since I’ve been featuring garden recipes all week I thought I’d share some fun weekend food links. Happy reading, gardening, and cooking! Take a quick trip out to your flower garden to make these delicious lemon and lavender shortbread cookies! Hummingbird cake is fun and fruity for summer parties. Mediterranean-Style Recipes: Vitamin-Rich Veggies [...]

Recipe: Chicken salad with watermelon and peaches

This recipe from the National Watermelon Promotion Board can be served over greens as a salad or used as a sandwich filling. Chicken salad with watermelon and peaches makes a good summer sandwich filling.

Taste and Create: Some Like It Hot

For this month's Taste and Create I had the pleasure of being partnered with Pam of The Backyard Pizzeria, a blog full of appealing photos and recipes. While their were many dishes I wanted to try I really had to limit myself to something requiring very little cooking time, as we are in the midst of a heat wave here in New York. It seemed fitting to pick her recipe for Sambal Oelek, a Thai sauce packed with heat but requiring very little in the way of simmering (and no baking! Yay!).

Summer Recipes: Strawberry Mango Salsa

This is SUPER simple and a fantastic way to end a meal, sitting outside under the stars on a warm summer night! Enjoy! DESSERT: Strawberry Mango Salsa serves 6 plus leftovers to store INGREDIENTS: carton of red, ripe strawberries one...

Kittens, Kaleidoscope Spaghetti and recipes from friends

( Visiting my friend's new cat, chocolate cake and Melted moments, Walter's wedding photos, the over-achieving Chris Conway, unusual spaghetti video. )

Getting your kids to eat healthier with Kellogg's Snacktivate

Kellogg’s latest health initiative, Snacktivate, helps moms incorporate kids into meal planning and preparation by providing healthy recipes and snack options that are as much fun to make as they are to eat. You know how hard it is to...

Summer Recipes: Tossed Roasted Corn & Avocado Salad

This is one of my own inventions which I have tweaked over the last few months. I like to eat this as a side dish when we are grilling the main course already. I just throw the corn & red...