A love for creating recipes, cooking, and sharing tasty food
I use this multi-purpose dry rub on everything – from sprinkling on ribs and chicken, to seasoning a meatloaf and a roast. Note, that I don’t add sugar to the mix as I find its not necessary for 99% of
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I love crabapples. With their tart snap and their crunchy texture, I always wish that they came in large apple size. When my sister offered to give me all the crabapples on her tree, I immediately said yes. What I
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I had quite a few citrus fruits left over from making jam and cooking fish. The Hubby and I enjoy a good bourbon cocktail and I asked him to pick out a recipe that would use up the fruit. He
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I should name this post Adventures in Jamming! I must admit I went on a bit of a jamming bender this year and I don’t think it will be stopping any time soon. There is such a wide variety of fruits
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Nothing beats a big bowl of fresh homemade roasted vegetable salsa. This has a nice fresh flavor, and can be made as hot as you want by using more or less jalapenos. The Hubby and I both prefer a less
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This past weekend, Saturday was a cool summer day, full of rain. When the weather is gloomy, I always get in the mood for a roast. Besides a tender roast beef, I love cooking lamb. Lamb and beans is not
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I was in a sentimental baking mood today and decided to make a dessert from my mother-in-laws’ recipes. I had the Hubby go through her squares and bars recipes and he picked out seafoam squares. My mother-in-law was a very
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I made blueberry maple jam using this recipe a few years ago and when I ended up buying 5 lbs of early blueberries this week, I knew it was time to make it again. I use Bernardin’s No Sugar Needed
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I finally got a free moment to post this recipe! We recently got a new pupper, everyone meet Molly May by the way, and dinners have been very quick affairs as everyone settles into a proper schedule. On one of
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I don’t know why I wanted to make blueberry coffee cake, except for the fact that I wanted blueberries for dessert. It’s early blueberry season for and I have 2lbs of blueberries that are crying out to be eaten. Some
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We have a few pots on our deck for herbs and pepper plants, and my oregano and sage are going a bit bananas. We had picked up a couple steaks from the butchers and I was trying to think of
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