Hello Summer! What took you so long? I hope all of you are outside grilling or cooking in the kitchen for a barbeque! This weekend I made my favorite baked beans recipe for a neighborhood weenie roast. Or well, I thought it was my favorite recipe until I ran across a baked bean recipe from [...]

May has been a good month. The sun is trying to come out. Last week, this blog made foodgawker.com, tasteologie.com and tastespotter.com with my lemon curd recipe! Woooo! Tonight, it’s hubby’s choice. Tonight, we’re celebrating with lobster corn chowder. When asked what I should make next for the blog…this was his immediate answer…. and since [...]

No….not that type of Margarita! Although,  if this rain and dreariness continues, I may be tempted. After yesterday’s calamity of roasted chicken, I opted for the non-meat, easy Monday meal. I’ve tried many Margherita pizza recipes and this is definitely the one! It comes from a Williams Sonoma Essentials of Baking Cookbook with a few [...]

My bird was too big! Oh, I had the best intentions of giving you my beautiful roasted chicken recipe complete with finished pictures today. It was a lovely rainy Sunday afternoon and everyone in the house was watching movies. I had the kitchen to myself with this wonderful beauty of a chicken in front of [...]