We love pasta salad! This one has a nice light dressing and it’s filled with lots of fresh veggies. It’s the perfect side to your BBQ or picnic favorites.
Grilled Buffalo Shrimp and Grilled Buffalo Chicken Tacos
Combine your favorite chicken wing flavors into a tasty taco… I learned how to make buffalo sauce eons ago when I worked at Stone Harbor Pizza in New Jersey – Thank you to Drew, who is currently owner of Circle Pizza in Avalon. I never wrote it down until now and it may not be the exact…
Cherry Squares & Mascarpone Whipped Cream
What foods conjure up your childhood memories? I don’t know whether to call them food memories or food associations…but when I am waxing nostalgic, food is invariably connected. Those foods in my memories are always delicious and perfect – although, I have my doubts about a few of them. Could the “Spam-bled eggs” of our…
Mango, Lime & Honey Frozen Fruit Bars / Popsicles
A steaming hot summer day calls for…Popsicles! We’ve had a few scorchers this week, so we spent the afternoon having a popsicle making party! My girls helped me make some mango, lime and honey ones and then they made their own…strawberry, banana smoothie pops & citrus pops. We’re already down to our last few, so…
Smoky & Sweet Slow-Cooker Baked Beans
I NEVER CARED MUCH FOR BAKED BEANS WHEN I WAS YOUNGER… But, I LOVE them now! I love them as a summery BBQ side, I love to pile them on hot dogs and I even secretly eat them in toasted cheese sandwiches. (What, you haven’t tried that?) I’ve been working on perfecting my recipe this…
All-American Macaroni Salad
This summer I have been craving all the classics… baked beans, cole slaw, corn-on-the-cob and of course macaroni salad! No summer is really complete without a taste of this cool, creamy, crunchy, tangy, touch-of-sweet pasta salad. Mine is filled with lots of finely chopped veggies and dressed with a light creamy dressing. I like to…
Dinner x 2: Grilled Pork Tenderloin and Juicy Pork Tenderloin Sandwiches
I broke out in a cold sweat… more than a few times this year. There were the heart pounding cold sweats right before each challenge on America’s Best Cook. I remember breathing deeply and praying that they would not ask me to cook a restaurant quality meal out of live eel, Twinkies and alfalfa sprouts….
Summer Peach Mule Cocktail
Before this June, I thought a mule was just a hard-working pack animal… but after attending a graduation party this spring, I learned of another kind of mule…a much less hard-working kind of mule. Turns out this mule is a delicious, refreshing, cocktail…The Moscow Mule! Original Moscow Mule Recipe Legend has it that the Moscow…
Strawberry, Blueberry, Rhubarb Crisp
This simple dessert is a cinch to pull together. Berries and rhubarb make a juicy filling topped by the tender crunch of the buttery brown sugar oat topping!
Arugula Walnut Pesto
I fell in love with this recipe in the winter, but I’ll be making it all summer long… I love basil pesto and make a ton of it in the summer when I have basil growing outside my kitchen door, but in the winter, you have to pay an arm and a leg for enough…