I was dying to use my new Calphalon Grill pan I had recently bought at my heaven….Williams-Sonoma. So I grabbed out some pork chops and was hoping the grill pan would live up to its raves…well IT DID. The chops grilled up great and they grilled up quick. Not greasy, not rubbery, just like being [...]
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Each week, Joelen of Joelen’s Culinary Adventures, has a Friday Giveaway (see Mondays for the giveaway post). She has given away such amazing, fun kitchen stuff and a couple weeks back, I was picked for one of the giveaways!! Joelen is one of the nicest people I know and is so OMGoodness generous! Pls check [...]
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After hearing about this on different Cupcake Blogs,I thought I would give it a try. My family and I tried the Chardonnay and the Cabernet. I found them both to be a bit smoother, milder, and full of flavor. I was quite pleased with these wines. They are the type of wine you can keep [...]
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For my birthday this past weekend, my H and our group of friends and I all met in Clearwater for brunch, drinks, dinner, and more drinks. We had a super great time. I was very blessed with my friends generosity. A group of them gave me a great bag filled with William-Sonoma cooking tools and [...]
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A great quick snack, appetizer, or side for a meal. I did cut it way way back for just H and I as the original recipe calls for 6 dozen. I made a dozen + for H and I.
I rolled the dough out and used my new pastry fancy cutter to cut out strips. Then I twisted [...]
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My newest cooking tool finally arrived!! Using a computer while cooking cuts down on continuously printing recipes. I find I can put my computer near my cooking/baking area and follow the recipe, look up answers to questions, and to easily post my blog updates. But my old computer, which was huge and heavy, didnt have [...]
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Over the years of trying and learning to cook, I always turned to cookbooks for inspiration and found that I would only use a few recipes from each cookbook and wound up spending more on cookbooks than I really needed to! Then came online recipes and it made it so much simpler, but lately I [...]
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Once again I am featuring one of my Christmas gifts. H gave me the Roll-A-Wizard. I had been wanting something to quickly chop my herbs without having to use a knife and pound away. The Roll-A-Wizard chops the herbs in just a couple passes through. It also slices cheese and veggies Julienne style, has attachments to [...]
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For Christmas this year, I had asked for unusual kitchen gadgets. I received many and one of them was a butter curler! I was very excited to try this tool out and see what kind of curls I could make! It did take some time getting used to how to make the curls, but once [...]
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I was very blessed this Christmas with several new kitchen gadgets. One of which was the Citrus Peeler/Curler. This tool is fantastic for making very long peels or curls for accenting drinks or dishes! I decided to garnish our NY day Mimosas!! I got this tool from WS! It makes garnishing with great citrus curls [...]
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