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Boston Cream Pie is a great dessert, but take those big flavors and put them into a miniature sized dessert, and you get Boston cream pie minis…desserts that are perfect for one person! Mother Nature <3’s me. Hates the rest of the east coast today but <3’s me. Its overcast, not a billion degrees, and generally…
Rosemary Baked French Fries. Forget the frying. These baked French fries are crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, sprinkled with fresh rosemary and sea salt. The perfect side dish. My cat is a foodie. He loves vegetables. Snap the end of asparagus or green beans, he comes running. Shuck corn, he’s at your feet. Peel…
Southwest-style eggrolls are packed with chicken, corn, spinach, and southwest spices. Serve them with a spicy chipotle cream dip for a delicious appetizer or game day snack food. This weekend was action packed and fun filled brought to me by the city of Baltimore. Well, sort of. There was a comic book convention I went…
Thin Mints Cookies are those dreamy, delicious cookies sold by the cute little girls in green. They’re chocolaty and minty and expensive, which is why I set out to find a homemade Thin Mints cookies recipe that tastes just as good (or better than) the original. Let me start my post by saying I love…
Homemade ravioli isn’t difficult to make. Just roll up your sleeves and prepare to get dusted with flour. It’s fun to make and delicious to eat! Today was my day off and, much like that lady on the food network who seems really mean, I spent it cooking (minus the film crew and culinary prestige…
Key Lime Coconut Cupcakes are a taste of summer sunshine. With bright lime and coconut flavors in the moist cupcake and a lime cream cheese frosting on top, you’ll want to devour these treats! Shocking News Flash: Autumn is not here yet. Despite the attempts from the retail giants to make you believe crisp weather, falling…
Chicken and Broccoli Stir-Fry is a healthy, quick, and easy weeknight dinner. Save money on Asian carryout and make your own fresh at home. Looking for the best chicken stir-fry recipe? In under 30 minutes, you can craft a flavorful, zesty, easy chicken dinner that tastes super authentic and is perfect for lazy cooks. This…
The author of this ciabatta bread recipe had me laughing out loud – literally – with comments like this as you went along with the recipe: Add flour and salt to your bowl of yeasty water. This, after measuring out the flour, presents another prime opportunity to get flour on your person. This will be…
Brewer’s blondies are a cross between malted milk cookies and walnut blondies. They’re rich, nutty, and full of flavor. Just like a great dessert should be. The dog is broken. I am not sure what happened or how but his tongue wont stop licking. Slop, slurp, slop, slurp can be heard any time day or…
Meatloaf burgers are made with a mixture of spicy and sweet ground sausages and ground beef, then topped with tomato sauce and melted Parmigiano cheese. This is comfort food the way it was intended to be. Satisfying! Great news… I have a new PtS original recipe for you! I’m bringing you this amazing recipe so…
Malted milk cookie tart. A buttery, malted milk cookie crust topped with chocolate and malted milk balls. The dessert of champions! Kitchenaid Food Processor, oh how I love you. Let me count the ways… Seriously, if my rents weren’t so good at making the holidays rock, I’d say best present ever – but really, they have made…
I got this paisley fabric for next to nothing at Joannes when it was on sale. I think its super pretty and should have gotten more. I’m making a full apron out of if as well that should be done tomorrow. It would be really cute for a mom and daughter cooking team or sisters.
This easy lemon pie recipe will cool you down and try to help you forget how hot and sticky humid is outside. It’s full of fresh lemons, and the graham cracker crust is perfect with it. It’s been blazing hot here with no break for rain. The humidity is so thick you could slice it with a…
This Italian sausage farfalle recipe is a comfort food dinner that’s packed with flavor from healthy ingredients like spicy turkey sausage, kale, white beans, and sun-dried tomatoes. And of course, pasta. You’ll love it! HOMEMADE SESAME SEED BUNS = EPIC FAIL…. It’s not often that I consider how desperately I need my Kitchenaid stand mixer, but…
This caramel-brandy mushroom sauce is perfect when you’re looking to add flavor to your beef or pork. Fresh mushrooms are sauteed in a sweetened brandy cream sauce. Tonight we were blessed with perfect grilling weather so I pulled out some rib eye steaks and started working on a goal of mine which is sauces. I…
Craving bold flavors but short on time? This blackened tilapia recipe is your answer! In this blackened tilapia recipe, we transform mild tilapia fillets into a restaurant-worthy dish with a smoky, spicy crust in under 30 minutes. Looking for an easy blackened tilapia recipe? This recipe is a winner for busy weeknights or when you…
So, I went a little crazy at the fabric store the other day and bought a whole bunch of fabrics I didn’t need. This cherry print was one of them, but A) I’m a sucker for cherries, and B) isn’t it kinda awesome? My goal is to lay out all of the fabrics I have…
Perfectly flaky dough with a caramel and nut topping that’s not overly sweet but just sweet enough to give your sweet tooth a fix. Ina Garten knows her homemade pecan sticky buns, and after you make this sticky buns recipe, you’ll know and love them, too. When procrastination kicks in, the perfect way to feel…
Baked salmon is a quick, easy, and healthy dinner. In this recipe, the salmon is coated with fresh dill and rosemary seasoned breadcrumbs, giving it tons of flavor. Is it just me or has the fish at the market been an epic fail lately? I generally believe in buying fish from a fish market and…
Everyone needs a go-to classic chocolate chip cookies recipe and this one is it. Luckily, chocolate chip cookies are tasty any time of the year… even for Christmas in July. Apparently summer is half over and that means stores are filling their shelves with Autumn decorations, school supplies and early Christmas bargains…. Really? Because my calendar…
This really is the easiest tacos recipe ever. For those nights when you have no time to cook, but you want comfort food, and you want it hot and fast. How to watch your numbers drop like a lead balloon – don’t update your website in 4 days. I’m sorry. I got lost during an incredible spelunking…
This copycat Olive Garden chicken scampi recipe is perfect for a quick weeknight meal. It tastes great, and it’s less expensive to make it at home. Raise your hand if you love a great copycat recipe at home. Mine’s raised. True story. I can’t always swing going out to eat, even if I love unlimited…
Pardon my for a moment while my inner fat kid wakes up from a nap. Today the BF and I took the motorcycle out for a drive and ended up at one of our new food favorites, Joe’s Grog House in Port Deposit MD. The town of Port Deposit sits right on the water and…
Cuban pork chops with mojo sauce. Delicious, juicy bone-in pork chops loaded with flavor and topped with a spicy citrus sauce called mojo. This is a recreation of a recipe from Guy Fieri. I think I love him… Don’t worry, the BF knows it. Guy Fieri seems like the kind of guy who everyone wants to…
Homemade sausage calzones are a beautiful thing. They’re pockets of pizza dough that have been stuffed with sweet Italian sausage, bacon, fresh herbs, and lots of ooey, gooey cheese, then baked up until they’re golden on the outside and outrageously delicious on the inside! It’s like a bazillion degrees outside today and I’m blaming it…
Ina Garten’s Easy Cheese Danish is light and flaky, with a rich, tart-sweet, lemony filling. Perfect for a weekend brunch, or a midday snack. This was my first time making an Ina Garten recipe and I was both shocked and disappointed that several effeminate men didn’t casually show up with fine wine selections or to…
Buttermilk cake is great for dessert, but it’s also perfect for breakfast and brunch. Moist white cake spiced with cinnamon and topped with a sweet vanilla-buttermilk glaze. Come and get it before it disappears from the table! I have been super busy the past few days trying to get some aprons out and finish up a new site…
Steak salad, served on a bed of spinach with sour cream potatoes is a an easy and delicious weeknight dinner. You just can’t go wrong with meat and potatoes. Some nights you just know you can cook. Tonight was one of those nights. Dinner was a steak salad with spinach and sour cream potatoes… simple, easy, healthy,…
Turkey burgers stuffed with pepper jack cheese and flavored up with Pat Neely’s special selection of seasonings makes for a quick and somewhat healthy dinner from the grill. You know the saying – “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.” Well, fool me a third time – it’s my damned fault…
Well, I finally went ahead and made a facebook page for Pass the Sushi… I kind of feel like a tool (but as it seems to be doing the girls at SiTs some good, hopefully it does for me too). Please check it out on the sidebar. Now, on to your regularly scheduled post.
Peanut butter crispy bars. These dessert bars are going to give you the sweetest of dreams! Crispy rice cereal and a layer of creamy peanut butter topped with rich melted chocolate. Single white female looking for strong, well built spatula Have you ever realized how important a well stocked kitchen is? Having the right…
Gina’s Cheddar Herb Biscuits are tender and flaky, just like any good southern, savory biscuit should be. This week, we decided to have some friends over for dinner. Why I decided to have friends over this week is still a little beyond me as I have a mental breakdown over the condition of the house….
The Baked cookbook brownies recipe will produce a chewy, rich, chocolaty brownie that your chocolate loving sweet tooth will love! I believe in buying butter in bulk. And unsalted butter at that. Without my bulk purchases of butter, today would have been an epic fail. Or at least a two trips to the store kinda day,…
Chicken Parmesan is a classic Italian dinner. Good comforting food to help you deal with life’s little problems… like awful, evil neighbors. Dear Evil Neighbors, Normally my love for old people runs deep, but you, you’re evil. You’re old, you’ve earned some respect, you’ve seen and done things I never will. But that doesn’t mean…
Sharing a grilled salmon recipe is on today’s agenda, but first, we take a break from our normal cooking blog for a special announcement. Here are some musical groups/bands that if you enjoy music (mainly if you enjoy country) you should really keep your eyes and ears open for. All of the musicians listed below…
Homemade pizza dough is easy to make and this recipe creates a tender, chewy crust. Not too thick, not too thin. Best of all, you can top your homemade pizza dough with whatever pizza toppings you like best! I have two of the most awesome cats in the world. They are unlike any other cats Ive ever know….
Teriyaki beef stir fry is a delicious dinner that cooks up so quickly, it won’t heat up your kitchen while you’re cooking it. This is a good thing on an exceptionally hot day. I’m pretty sure it was hotter then the surface of the sun on Thursday when my BF’s mom and I went out plant…
I am a ‘doer.’ The type of person who doesn’t wait for anything else – if something needs to change, I change it. Its an amazing ability I poses that I have learned not everyone does. Some people just don’t change things. Or change things very very slowly. So, where I have not embraced my…
Banana nut bread recipes are fantastic, but add cream cheese and bake them into muffins and you’ll have a moist, sweet muffin that everyone will love! Which do I burn for being a witch? OK, that idea did make me giggle while I was thinking about whether or not to use eggs that were one…
This Fontina Cheese Sauce recipe is rich and thick with so much cheesy flavor and a kick of spice from cayenne and cajun seasoning. It’s the perfect finishing touch over any dinner, from pasta to chicken, veggies, and more! If you’re a cheese lover, this is the kind of sauce that’ll make you weak in…