Bacon Wrapped Chicken Cordon Bleu

I honestly didn’t know what I was making for dinner the other night.  I was drawing a total blank. Mark (my husband) is hungry and is looking at me with those eyes that say are we gonna eat tonight or is it a fend for yourself night!?  I went into automatic mode and this is [...]

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United Cakes of America – Book Review

Recently I was sent and asked to review:  United Cakes of America by Warren Brown.  A Collection of Recipes Celebrating Every State! How Unique! What fun!  I couldn’t wait to dive in and see what cakes went with what states.  Almost all recipes have big beautiful pictures, and some history to the origins, or an [...]

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American Sandwich Bread

Admittedly, I love eating bread. And baking it too! But, my Grand kids have me beat in the bread eating hands down. They love it toasted, spread with Goober Grape (Peanut butter & Jelly mixed), or buttered.  (Just don’t expect them to eat the crust, I have to cut that off for them. I wonder [...]

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French Dip Sandwiches

These French Dip Sandwiches, are the quick easy way. Made with Lunch meat. If you’ve never tried the Dietz & Watson London Broil Beef, you haven’t lived!  This is the only brand of roast beef I will buy, and it must be on sale too! So, I recently caught it on sale and decided to [...]

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Cocoa Cola BBQ Ribs

This recipe comes from Chef David Lawrence’s Blog.  I am not really into par-boiling my ribs, I like to put them on the grill and give them a nice slow long roasting period! However, I decided to give this recipe a go.  The entire family loved it. I only had a couple of ribs left. [...]

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Bacon-Wrapped Green Bean Bundles

I saw this recipe over at Our Best Bites Blog, and HAD to try them!  They were SOOOO Good, that we had to try the same recipe using Asparagus! Oh my!!  Both are so good, they will be made often in our house!  Stop on over at Our Best Bites  Blog and check out the [...]

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Attention Michigan Readers! An Act of Tenderness!!

Do you know a Michigan resident in the habit of helping others? Tender Ridge Angus is hoping to recognize those people who usually go unnoticed. They don’t have to be the leaders of charities, they can be: •    The man who coaches a little league baseball team, and dedicates his weekend to their competition and [...]

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Daring Cook’s Challenge for June – Pate with Fresh Baked Bread

Our hostesses this month, Evelyne of Cheap Ethnic Eatz, and Valerie of a The Chocolate Bunny, chose delicious pate with freshly baked bread as their June Daring Cook’s challenge! They’ve provided us with 4 different pate recipes to choose from and are allowing us to go wild with our homemade bread choice. I chose the [...]

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Baked Spaghetti Royale

In my blogger land travels, I picked up a recipe from a beautiful, informative top rated blog.  The dish looked too delicious to pass up without trying my hand at it. Couple of things. I baked mine on the BBQ Grill as I didn’t want to heat the house up, so it did not brown [...]

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Cube Steaks, Quick Fried with Onions & Mushrooms

My husband and I were on the way out the door the other day to a dinner/investment outing. At the last-minute it got canceled due to the wrong date. (Right day, wrong date) Well…. it happens sometimes. But there we were, my husband is absolutely starving!! I need dinner QUICK!!  This is my go to, [...]

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