Oven Fried Ranch Chicken This oven fried chicken is absolutely yummy. Best part of it is, it uses very little fat, unlike most oven-fried chicken recipes. In fact, you can eliminate the fat entirely if you are using leg quarters or thighs with the skin on. Breasts, because of the low fat content…
Ricotta Lemon Poppy Muffins
Ricotta Lemon Poppy Muffins A different twist on a classic muffin. The secret ingredient is ricotta cheese. This cake-like muffin is super easy as it’s base is a cake mix! You can use yellow, white or lemon flavored cake mix. I used lemon, as I felt it would up the flavor. However, the other mixes…
Rice Salad
Rice Salad This versatile salad is made from ingredients you have on hand. Yesterday, I made a couple of cups of rice to use as a prop for my rib photo (on this blog, Plum Good Asian Baby Back Ribs) for this blog. I wanted to use this up. I took the rice, added some…
Plum Good Asian Baby Back Ribs
Plum Good Asian Baby Back Ribs You simply cannot eat just one of these delectible ribs. Marinated in a soy sauce/mirin combo, these can’t be beat–as an appetizer or a main course. Simply finger-lickin’ good! Plum Good Asian Baby Back Ribs You simply cannot eat just one of these delectible ribs. Marinated in a soy sauce/mirin combo,…
Dinner Torta Redux
Mushroom Torta Can you stand another savory torta? I had a bit of ricotta left over from a lasagna that I didn’t want to go to waste, plus some mushrooms I bought and almost forgot about, so this was an easy dinner. You can actually put anything in the cheese base, but this was the…
Eggplant Parmesan
Eggplant Parmesan One of the favorite and hearty Italian vegetarian entrees. Yummy and comforting, especially with plenty of cheese. The eggplant preparation can get a bit messy, but it’s oh-so worth it. One of the favorite and hearty Italian vegetarian entrees. Yummy and comforting, especially with plenty of cheese.
Making Pesto with Robin Ellis
For those of us who remember Robin Ellis as “Poldark,” here’s a real treat. He loves to cook and after he was diagnosed with Type II diabetes, wrote a cookbook for diabetics geared toward Mediterranean-style food. The book is available through Amazon.com (US) and Amazon.uk (UK). Robin’s a hoot in this video because he cooks…
More On Props–Making A Distressed Wood Backdrop
Grey Side of Backdrop Here’s the story in pictures. The only thing I don’t have pics of is the way it’s laid out and then glued. This is pretty simple because all you do is lay the slats in one direction, tape them in place, then take the other set of slats (I used a…
Chocolate Orange Haystacks
Chocolate Orange Haystacks Dark chocolate and orange mixed with coconut. Could there be anything better? Hard to believe something so good can also be so easy! An interesting option would be to toast the coconut, but you don’t have to do that; they’re good just as they are. Chocolate Orange Haystacks 1 1 /2 cups…
Summer Vegetable Torta–A Pinterest Luncheon
Summer Vegetable Torta Here is a great way to use all that zucchini you grow or receive from folks who do. This beauty was prepared by soon-to-be blogging partner, Linda, at a mid-summer lunch she recently hosted for all we gals. This is insanely good! Pic is of the torta before we dug in, and…
