Four Recipes for Passover

Four Recipes for Passover

Food in Religious Life: The Passover Meal Passover begins April 22 Those of you who know me might be wondering why I chose to share recipes for the Jewish Spring festival of Passover, when, in fact, I’m not Jewish. If you’re like me, you have friends who are of the Jewish faith, but the Passover holiday is a bit of a mystery to you. You.

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Waffle Iron Mozzarella Snacks

Waffle Iron Mozzarella Snacks

You can also use this exact recipe and use cheese sticks instead of a round ball of mozzarella. So delicious. Got this recipe from my friend Eliud Castro at Gepetto's Pizza Truck in Fort Worth. You can find Eliud and his truck at both Food Truck Parks in Fort Worth, TX - ClearFork Food Park and Fort Worth Food Park These are really good. Be.

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Mini Fish Bites and Fish Sliders

Mini Fish Bites and Fish Sliders

  Homemade Mini Fish Bites (forget about pressed fish) Makes about 12 small fish bites 2 6-ounce halibut filets 1 egg 1 tsp. water 1 cup Ritz Cracker Crumbs 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese 1 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. pepper olive oil spray Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Cut halibut lengthwise into bite sized sticks. Any size is fine.

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Homemade Chicken Nuggets

Homemade Chicken Nuggets

When I was a young Mom, my kids loved all the famous fast food. Chicken nuggets, fish sticks, fried cheese, bagel bites etc. And I served it to them. Not a lot. But often. Well we're all much smarter now, and you can feed your kids the foods they love and have them be healthy and homemade. Try these over Spring Break and let the kids help make.

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Food Network: Dear Bobby Flay

Food Network: Dear Bobby Flay

Dear Mr. Bobby Flay: This is our submission for your new show, Bobby's Best Home Cook. My sister and I will be submitting from Dallas - well...really Fort Worth, but it's all just one big place anyway - Dallas, of course, being a small suburb of Fort Worth...(wink, wink) We decided to send our submission as a post in my food and recipe blog,.

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Salmon, Avocado & Tomato Sandwich

Salmon, Avocado & Tomato Sandwich

This Mom is pretty proud. You would be too if your college aged son sent you this photo with the accompanying text message: Couldn't ruin the mood for our Master Creation: The Salmon Avocado Tomato Sandwich They cooked the salmon in foil in the oven with olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper and then made this beautiful masterpiece. It's their.

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Risotto with Pan-Seared Salmon & Swordfish

Risotto with Pan-Seared Salmon & Swordfish

RISOTTO WITH PAN-SEARED SALMON & SWORDFISHIn my first post of the New Year I said that I was going to begin taking my own photos of my dishes and post them on a regular (yes regular) basis. I think an achievable goal might be one really good post per week.So for dinner tonight I had leftover chicken broth from my homemade chicken soup that had been.

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Meatloaf for Mikey

Meatloaf for Mikey

Michael leaves for the University of Oklahoma on Thursday so tonight I made his going away meatloaf.Photo really does it no credit. It's the finest of all loaves...as Ed says.Nan's Meatloaf (originally taken from the Oster Blender cookbook-no kidding)2 lbs lean ground beef1 1/2 cups italian style bread crumbsmix these 2 by hand in a big bowl.Then in a.

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Sugary Spam

Sugary Spam

In Honor of My Son Kevin Kevin's been in Utah working on getting his life in order at a wilderness program there, and when we went to visit last week, he said that he'd learned a few great recipes. I told him I'd post this to my blog and I'm not sure he believed me. So here it is~Love ya Kev : ) Sugary Spam from Utah One can of.

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Vegas Uncork’d 2009

Vegas Uncork’d 2009

How do I begin to tell you how fabulous the Vegas Uncorked event was? With photos I guess....just scroll down and see all the great chefs we got to meet - not to mention seeing Barbara Fairchild, editor-in-chief of Bon Apetite. Biggest thrill of all was standing next to Daniel Boulud and Hubert Keller. It was pretty amazing. Ed and I attended the wine.

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