Award Winning Chili – Sweet Potato Chili with Peanuts

It’s been too long since I posted a recipe. So here it is, a recipe.  An Award Winning recipe, I might add.  Last Saturday, this chili won the Hill Street Hoedown Chili Cookoff People’s Choice award.  And I didn’t even have to do all of the campaigning myself.  It actually stood on its own, and [...]

Lemon Lime Surprise

So, I’ve been remiss in writing lately. For some reason, I can’t put pen to paper. Or fingers to keyboard. I don’t get it, but there it is. I also haven’t posted a recipe for a while either. This is one that I made up today, and I really liked it. I was riffing off [...]

Top 5 Recipes of 2008

As well established readers of this blog will know, I enjoy cooking. So what retrospective of 2008 would be complete without a list of recipes that have influenced me this year. I’ve tried out a lot of new recipes this year, and these are the ones that I loved the most and wanted to share [...]

"It’s not a casserole, it’s an oven omelet"

I’m about to share another recipe, though I promise that this blog is not a food blog. I promise! I took an oven omelet (definitely not a casserole, Jessica ) over to Adam’s Alliterative Birthday Breakfast Bash this morning, and someone asked for the recipe. It really wasn’t that difficult to make, and it makes [...]

Mingle Dish – Baked Garbanzos with beans

I got a lot of compliments on the mingle dish tonight and wanted to share the recipe. Really, the secret is the tomato sauce. You could probably get away with doing anything with this sauce and it would be great. By the way, this was the solution to my tomato problem of a few weeks [...]