Fruit and bread dipped in cheese? The perfect snack. When you think of fondue you think "fancy" or lots of work. I do at least. Believe me, I am into little or hardly no work at all when it comes to food these days. Fondue is basically just melted cheese. This Apple Cider Fondue I made has apple cider in it for flavor and to thin it out a bit. So delicious. I made it last Sunday and I didn't … [Read more...]
Frankenstein skin
We are knee deep into fall - which is my absolute favorite season. The air is crisp and clean and the leaves are the most beautiful shades of reds, oranges and golds. Fall makes me want to bake anything apple, squash and pumpkin (although "pumpkin spice" is becoming quite overused and starting to get on my nerves...) Kerrygold asked me to come up with snack recipes for Halloween. What a great … [Read more...]
Quick Cheesy Potato Leek Soup
I received some wonderful looking leeks in with my Bountiful Basket this week. I love Bountiful Baskets. It gives me an opportunity to have ingredients that I wouldn't normally buy and it also takes the decision making out of a lot of what I buy. This week I got a bag full of limes, spaghetti squash, bananas, grapes, green peppers, zucchini, lettuce, fennel, leeks, yellow onions, kale, celery … [Read more...]
Homemade Corn Tortillas
I've made flour tortillas before, but I've always shied away from corn tortillas. For one thing, I rarely ever buy them. I stopped to think about why the other day. To me they don't seem to taste like a whole lot; they fall apart; they turn mushy; and I'm never sure how to use them. I could pick one of those 4 excuses and understandably go for the flour ones. However, for some reason once I … [Read more...]
Lettuce Wraps
I have been cooking and baking. Really I have. I made an amazing pumpkin bread that I figured wasn't going to be that amazing so I skipped the pictures. I had already given away a loaf to my milk man and had devoured the 2nd when I realized it was pretty darn good and I should have taken pictures. Better than pretty darn good actually. I promise I will post at some point. Then I realized I had … [Read more...]
Green Olive Cheeseball
Hope you all had a GREAT Thanksgiving! We are in the midst of our Thanksgiving Festivities. One wave is done and the 2nd begins tomorrow morning with a 3rd following on Sunday. We had company on Wednesday evening and instead of having a big meal, we had appetizers and cocktails around 5pm. It was so nice eating early and light the night before the big traditional meal on Thursday. My last few … [Read more...]
Jalapeno Cheese Bites
The countdown is on. I have my list of "to do's" for the next few days. I'm going do as much as I can ahead of time so Thursday morning isn't such a rush. The turkey is brining, table is set and wine is chilling. And jalapeno bites are made. I have had a jar of red pepper jelly in my pantry for over a year. The only way I've ever had red pepper jelly is poured over a brick of cream cheese and … [Read more...]
Savory Chocolate Crackers
This week I am going to post recipes that feature Kerry Gold Products. I am going to be using all of the recipes for Thanksgiving - as part of my charcuterie platter that I will be serving before the "big" meal. A charcuterie platter is basically prepared meats with whatever else you want to go with it. I received a bunch of Kerry Gold cheeses in the mail the other day and didn't sleep for the … [Read more...]
Cheddar Ale Soup
This soup needed to be made after my disastrous beer soaked grilled cheese incident. I combined about 5 different recipes with what I thought it should taste like and came up with this recipe. The first bite was exactly what I was looking for ... memories of being a server at Granite City Food and Brewery 10+ years ago came flooding back to me. (they had such good cheddar ale soup). I … [Read more...]
BBQ Chicken Pizza
I got this picture on our walk home from the grocery store the other day. We are fortunate enough to be close to the park where the hot air balloons take off. There were a half a dozen in the sky. I bet it was beautiful looking down on fall. I prefer this view. feet. on. ground. We eat pizza fairly often at our house. It's usually on a Friday or Saturday night. We make it an event. Ollie helps … [Read more...]
