Caramel Sauce/Salted Caramel Sauce

I love caramel!  I usually choose caramel over chocolate and never refuse chocolate and caramel together! Just about anything tastes better when it is covered in caramel. Several years ago we traveled to Argentina.  Each morning at our hotel they served breakfast.  There was always a huge bowl, and I mean huge (punch bowl size) [...]

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Raspberry Chipotle Sauce

You may remember that several weeks ago I had a fun visit at my home with Melanie from Mel’s Kitchen Cafe.  We had a s’more feast.  But lest you think that is all I served I did have something else a little more sophisticated! We had a little appetizer before our s’mores and it included [...]

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Honey Butter}Wild Orange

This post is honor of all my Utah friends who celebrated Pioneer Day this past weekend. We had a celebration here in Oregon too on Saturday. For those of you who may never have heard of Pioneer Day, it is July 24th. It marks the day that Brigham Young and the pioneers who went West [...]

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Chicken Tostadas with Favorite Marinade

Quick and easy dinners have been a necessity around here lately. We have just been having so much fun that cooking dinner has been one of the last things on my list. Today’s recipe for chicken tostadas using my favorite marinade is quick, easy and delicious!  What more could you ask for you? You see, [...]

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Canned Salsa

I use to can a lot – peaches, pears, apple pie filling, grape juice etc.  Those were the good old days. It’s been years since I got out that old hot bath canner.  In fact it has been so many years that when I went to look for it this weekend I couldn’t find it.  [...]

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JDawg Sauce

I don’t eat hot dogs very often.  In fact there are only two places where I will eat a hot dog. Manzanita Mudd Dogs.  A fun hot dog stand at the beach. Manzanita Mudd Dogs is this great little hot dog stand in our beach town.  The man that runs it is so great!  He [...]

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Easter Menu

Here is what we are having for Easter Dinner… Bluberry Stuffed Pork Baked Pineapple Cran-Orange Almond Salad Balsamic Roasted Asparagus Rolls – my friend is bringing those Creamy Rosemary Potatoes Lemon Truffle Cake What’s on your menu? Off to the Michael Buble concert tonight and then the cooking begins!!

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Dress Up Your Condiments

I am already beginning to mourn the end of summer even though we still have 3 more weeks to go!  School starts after Labor Day around here. I still have a few things to finish up on my Summer To Do list and so does Cali.  She crossed boating, ice blocking, drive in movie, making [...]

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Compound Butter

I have one more recipe to share with you from the herb class I taught a few weeks ago. Have you ever heard of compound butter and wondered what it was? Compound butter is simply butter that has had something else added to it.  Maybe you’ve eaten at a restaurant that served yummy garlic butter [...]

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Cooking with Herbs

A few weeks ago I taught a class for a group of women from church on cooking with herbs. It was a fun class to prepare for and I learned a few new things myself. This week I will share with you some of the tips on cooking with herbs as well as a few [...]

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