Category Archives: cooking

Lasagna Roll-ups

I watched the Pioneer Woman cooking show the other day and she made some Lasagna Roll-ups for Ladd’s Grandmother.

My husband thought that they looked good, so I decided to do my own version of these, with a meat sauce and they were delish!

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Recipe Cards!

Today I am excited to give you these recipe cards! 

These have been a long time in coming.   I made them to match my Recipe Book Dividers.  So now you can organize your recipes with the dividers and have matching cards to go with them! :)

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Top Ten Posts for 2013

I posted this a couple of weeks over at I Should Be Mopping the Floor, and I wanted to post it here for you today!

 These were my top 10 posts  in 2013!

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Experience The Goodness of Fall with P.F. Chang’s

This post brought to you by P.F. Chang’s. All opinions are 100% mine.

At P.F. Chang’s, guests are surrounded by a unique, modern environment combining influences of Asian and American cultures.   And now, the Goodness of Fall is fresh for the tasting at P.F. Chang’s with their new Fall Seasonal Menu.

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The one menu item that really caught my eye was the Vietnamese Noodles with Steak and Shrimp!  I am a shrimp girl, so I would love to try this one out real soon.  The Citrus Mustard Prawns also look yummy!  And of course I would want to try the Pumpking Dessert Wantons, or the Apple Dessert Wontons! 

P.F. Chang’s is also hosting the Goodness of Fall Contest,

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Contestants will create at least 3 unique fall dishes highlighting 3 of the seasonal ingredients that are used on the new Fall Seasonal Menu. The top 5 recipes will then be submitted to a panel of judges for a chance to win the grand prize!

Contest Panelist include: Philip Chiang, Cofounder of P.F. Chang’s; Yuji Iwasa, Head Development Chef at P.F. Chang’s; Mary Melton, Director of Beverage at P.F. Chang’s; and Jennifer Chong; a prominent blogger partner.

Prizes include: a $50 daily P.F. Chang’s gift card winner; The grand prize winner and one lucky guest will win a two-night trip to Napa in Spring of 2014, including an exclusive visit to the guest house at a Napa Valley vineyard where judges Philip Chiang and Yuji Iwasa will be cooking some of their favorite dishes. Director of Beverage Mary Melton will also be there, guiding the winners through an extensive wine tasting. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime Napa Valley getaway!

The Goodness of Fall Contest

I am celebrating Fall with my own fall recipe!  

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Pinners Conference #pinners

Last weekend I went to the Pinners Conference with my best friend from Jr. High!  Can you believe that we have been friends for that long?  We have kept in touch all these years and it is so fun to have a friend that everyone thinks is my sister!  (She is the one on the left) We met these other two while waiting in line to get in the first morning and we ran into each other several times during the two days.  I should have handed off my phone to someone to take a picture of us together!  We just kept taking pictures of each other and I do not have any of us together, even though we spent the whole weekend together.  :(

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Make It Yours Michelina’s

This post brought to you by Michelina’s. All opinions are 100% mine.

Do any of you have the same problem as I do when it comes to making a good lunch?  I get in the same old rut of eating sandwiches or soup everyday.  Well, here are some ideas to take a frozen entree to gourmet in just a matter of minutes!

Michelina’s has a great variety of entrees and by just adding a few of your own fresh ingredients you can take a great meal to a gourmet meal by adding items like spices, tomatoes,broccoli, chicken, bacon, or pinenuts ect, the options are endless!

Check out all of these great ideas:

Make It Your Michelina’s

I think that my all-time favorite one is this one that adds broccoli, tomatoes and chicken to the fettucini Alfredo to make this great meal for your family!

 

 

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10 Fabulous Fall Recipes


When the weather starts to cool down and the leaves start to turn colors, I get in the mood to cook again, so today I thought that I would just do a round-up of some of my favorite fall recipes that I have posted in the past.  These are all tried and true recipes that my family all love!

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Parmesan Crusted Salmon

This recipe that I have today has become one of our all-time favorites!  

I have not always been a big fish eater, but lately I have fallen in love with the salmon fillets from Costco.  They are individually frozen, so I can just take out what I need.  They always taste so good because they are each wrapped separately and it really preserves their freshness.  I love this recipe because another one of my food loves is… Parmesan cheese!

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Chocolate Syrup Cake


I remember making this cake many years ago.  It is a very rich, moist, cake…just the way I love cake to be!  It also has a cooked, ganache-type icing that is irresistable!

 I have not made it for a long time, but when I saw a post somewhere out there in blog land, it reminded me of how much I used to love it and  I decided to make  it again… and it did not disappoint!

I usually do not make cake unless I know that I will have others here to help eat it, because my husband and I cannot eat a whole cake.  But with this cake we both could not get enough and I found that we were keeping track of who had eaten a piece!  You definitely cannot eat just one piece-I dare you to try!

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Streusel Blueberry Lemon Muffins

I have the yummiest muffins for you today!  I bought a big bag of lemons and a box of blueberries to make some cupcakes last week and I had leftover fruit so I decided to make these muffins!  They are so full of flavor and are so refreshing with the lemons that your taste buds are going to be dancing in your mouth!  Make some for your family this weekend and see what kinds of compliments you get!

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