Recently we went to a friend’s house for a barbecue (I am a huge fan of summertime barbecues). Wonderful food was served including watermelon salsa. I had never had watermelon salsa before and after the first taste, I knew I had to replicate it at home. To some the idea of sweet fruit combined with [...]
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! Me encanta celebrar herencia cultural de Mexico especialmente para incluir la comida mexicana. Forgive me, I haven’t practice Spanish since college, I am a little rusty. What I hope I said is: Happy Cinco de Mayo! I love to celebrate the cultural heritage of Mexico, especially if it is to include [...]
The new year is coming fast, we are just days away from 2010. Can you believe that? I am sure everyone has satisfied their sweet tooth with all the delicious Christmas candy, sweets, and treats (I know I have). I had a couple more Christmas candy recipes I wanted to share with you, but instead [...]
Many months ago I found these adorable penguins when I was gawking at foodgawker. It was love at first sight. I couldn’t wait until my next party so I could make them. Luckily for me my penguin loving daughter was having a birthday party. These appetizers were a hit, and they sent the cute factor [...]
We have now been in our house for one month. How quickly that month has gone too. Most of our boxes have been unpacked, we still have a few that have a mish-mash of things in them, nevertheless we are feeling quite settled. There are still things that I want to do to make this [...]
This weekend we had a little cocktail party at our new house. It was an opportunity for our friends to see our house, and a chance for us to ask them their opinions on improvements we should make to the place. The current debate is whether or not the wood wall separating the kitchen and [...]
Chicken wings are one of my favorite happy hour appetizers. Once I turned 21, I frequented one of the favorite sports bars in Cedar Falls that had cheap beer and cheap wings during happy hour. Beer and wings would be my meal. I love the combination of the hot wing sauce, the cool bleu cheese [...]
Football fan are not words I would use to describe myself. However, I can never turn down an excuse to make cute food for a party; I love entertaining guests. I do know which teams are playing in the Superbowl this year, only because my nephew Andrew is a HUGE Steelers fan (I will root [...]
In July Alex and I traveled to Phoenix, while we were there we ate at a delicious Lebanese restaurant in Tempe, called Layalena. Before we ate there my middle eastern food experience was extremely limited; in fact I think the only thing I had previously eaten was hummus. Since neither of us knew what to [...]
Roasted garlic. So easy. So simple. So delicious! The first time I enjoyed roasted garlic was when my husband and I were dining in Omaha’s Old Market. We ordered an antipasto appetizer off the menu at Vivace, which came with an assortment of cheeses, salty Italian meats, crusty bread and roasted garlic. Neither one of [...]
