Be sure to use a clean piece of foil for your cooked shrimp. You won’t believe how easy these grilled shrimp are. I went looking for an easy recipe when my husband said he would like to…
Pan-Seared Steaks
This recipe is inspired by a Cook’s Illustrated recipe. It’s very easy! I have only made this in a cast iron skillet so I hope you have one. My sister, Connie, got me one this past Christmas…
Baby Shower Cake Part II
I finished the shower cake (that I worked on all week) was finished around 2am (Saturday morning) and we drove it over from the Space Coast to Tampa at around 7:30am. We had so much fun at…
Baby Shower Cake Part I
Wow, I haven’t posted in two weeks! I really thought it was only one week! My sister mentioned to me yesterday that I hadn’t posted in two weeks. Even thinking it was only one week, I was…
Spiedies
Spiedies, have you ever heard of them? I never had until I bought an America’s Test Kitchen Best of 2010 magazine issue. According to the magazine, they are upstate New York’s best kept secret. They are so…
Breakfast for Dinner – Crepes
We love to have breakfast for dinner! I recently made crepes for dinner. I have vivid, wonderful memories of my older sister, Quyen, making us crepes for breakfast. I am not only inspired culinarily by my mother…
Cheese, Tomato & Tofu Sandwich with Avocados
My sister has asked for vegetarian options on my blog and here’s another one. I wanted to try to make this sandwich when I had it at place called the Manatee Cafe in St. Augustine. I went…
Pasta Fazul
I have made the move over to WordPress from RapidWeaver. I had to manually copy and paste the old posts over and the comments will be moved over soon as well. I like it much better, WordPress…
Baked Beef Brisket in Red Wine
I don’t remember what show I was watching on tv but they were making a brisket, maybe it was the Food Network. I had never had brisket before so I went looking for a recipe. As I…
Valentine’s Themed Cookies!
Decorated cookies are always fun to eat but my requirement is that they be very tasty and personally I don’t like them so hard that you practically break your teeth on them. I have made this sugar…
Some Thoughts from the little kitchen…
I love to eat and I love to share my cooking with my family and friends. As Emeril calls it, it’s a food of love thing. I think I got the food of love thing from my…
Boneless Buffalo Chicken
Just in time for Super Bowl Sunday! Before I got this recipe, we used to make buffalo sauce by melting some butter in a sauce pan and adding Texas Pete brand buffalo wing sauce. Then we met…
Guacamole with Fried Tortilla Chips and a wonderful surprise!
Next weekend, I’m turning 30. As can be expected, I’m not too excited about this milestone birthday. It’s so different from turning 20. I know everyone else older than 40 reading this is rolling their eyes. I…
Fried Zucchini
This is a great twist on fried zucchini. Instead of your standard breadcrumbs, you use panko breadcrumbs. I saw this recipe demonstrated by Giada De Laurentiis on Food Network several years ago and had to try it….
Penne Pasta with Spicy Tomato Sauce
I’m posting a vegetarian recipe for my sister, Cathy, who requested that I post more of them. I received a Williams-Sonoma Classic Pasta at Home cookbook from my mother-in-law as a gift at least 8 or 9…
Mini Classes – Sugar Arts Classes
I am a member of a wonderful organization called the International Cake Exploration Societe (ICES). It’s a group composed of professional and hobby sugar artists and cake decorators. This mission of ICES is caring and sharing. Every…
Beef Stir-Fry with Ginger-Oyster Sauce
This beef stir-fry recipe is actually modified from an America’s Test Kitchen recipe for Stir-Fried Portobellos with Ginger-Oyster Sauce. I substituted the portobellos with beef and I have also made it with chicken. I also go the…
Almost Homemade Pizzas
We love to eat pizzas and making them at home is very easy since you can buy the dough premade at your local grocery store bakery. We buy ours at Publix and it comes in a bag…
Fettuccine Alfredo with Chicken
This is a nice indulgent dish you can have every once in a while. Even better is that it’s so easy! I use Emeril’s alfredo sauce recipe and it never fails! Click here for Emeril’s Fettuccine Alfredo…
Potato Leek Soup
I hope you like the new design of the website, my husband designed the logo and yes, that’s a blueprint (but not to scale) of my little kitchen! I have also added a facebook page so you…
Tacos!
First off, I want to wish everyone a very happy new year! Hope 2010 brings you only the best and hope your new year is filled with joy, good health and prosperity. I’m looking forward to the…
Grilled Lemon Chicken
Last year, I was really getting bored with cooking chicken. I went looking for recipes that call for boneless skinless chicken breasts because that’s the cut of chicken that my husband prefers. This has become one of…
Fried Donuts (so easy!)
This attempt to make fried donuts was inspired by local Thai and Chinese restaurants. They serve these freshly fried donuts dipped in sugar or sometimes left plain and are served with a sweetened condensed milk and chopped…
Some of the Christmas Presents I Received…
We had a great Christmas this year. Most of my immediate family and their spouses/partners and their children came over on Christmas Eve as is the tradition in my family. Not everyone was able to make it…