TWD: Perfect Party Cake

For our final recipe in June, Carol of Mix, Mix, Stir, Stir picked the perfect party cake! I really liked this recipe and it was quite easy and not that time consuming like other TWD recipes can be, but of course even if they are time consuming they are worth it!! I love the raspberry [...]

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Tuesday Review: Palm Leaf Plates

Recently Marx Food Blog wanted food bloggers to test out Palm Leaf Plates. I really enjoyed using these plates. I kid you not, they were more durable then using regular paper plates. Their story on how they are made is also very interesting.  If you recently read my Pork Chops with Nectarine post you will [...]

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Give Away

This week’s giveaway is another book about grilling! But this time it’s all about PORK!! This book has recipes, tips and how to store/cook your pork for the grill: So what do you have to do to enter this give away? It’s simple…tell me your favorite pork recipe! If you have a link to the [...]

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Chicken Cheddar Blue Cheese BLT’s

What an interesting name I gave this food, right? Haha, I really couldn’t think of something fancy to call it, just I figured Chicken Cheddar Blue Cheese BLT’s worked. So where did I get this inspiration from? Recently I was at the cracker barrel and my nine year old cousin ordered a chicken blt sandwich [...]

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TWD:Coconut-Roasted Pineapple Dacquoise

For this week’s TWD, Andrea of Andrea In The Kitchen picked Coconut-Roasted Pineapple Dacquoise. This week TWD recipe was probably the most intense recipe I’ve ever made and the most time consuming. Dorie advises you not to try to make this recipe when it’s humid out because some of the recipe won’t hold together. Unfortunately [...]

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Chicken & Barley Salad

If you read my blog often you have probably have read that I’m allergic to fresh fruit, well in making this recipe I found out that I’m allergic to something else! That is almonds! I was going to put almonds on this salad as well and when I started cooking the chicken I was hungry [...]

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Pork Chops with Grilled Nectarines

My husband was basically begging me to make something with pork chops for dinner since it’s been some time since we had pork for dinner. He wanted just a plain pork chop grilled. But we have had nothing but rain here, so I had to use the grill pan on the stove. Nectarines were on [...]

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Turkey & Pepper Baked Ziti

Mmm, ziti is probably one of my favorite Italian dishes to make and to eat. I was in the mood for ziti but not just the ziti I usually make, which is just ground meat, ziti and some spices, this time I thought about just adding red peppers and ground turkey meat to it. It [...]

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BB: Cranberry Orange Scones

This month’s bonus Barefoot Bloggers recipe was Cranberry Orange Scones.  I’ve never made scones before so when I saw this recipe was picked I was excited!  They turned out great! Flour is your best friend though when making scones because the dough is so sticky! I added raisins to mine as well.  There was some [...]

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Cajun Tilapia & Remoulade

I first saw this recipe in Family Circle and it’s original recipe was with catfish and brown rice. We typically can’t find catfish in our area and tilapia is one of our favorite fishes so I decided to adapt the recipe and use tilapia and no brown rice.  I was a bit worried that the [...]

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