Remember the other day when I told you about Paula Deen’s recipe for Savory Baked Chicken, and how you were supposed to save the leftover chicken so you could use it again in another recipe? Well this is the other recipe. Hopefully you didn’t eat all of that leftover chicken (good as it was) because [...]
Filed under: chicken, main dish, pasta on February 12th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Whenever The Picky Apple gets doughnuts (or donuts, however you spell it), I always request an apple fritter. Plain glazed donuts are great (and obviously the favorite choice of The Picky Apple, because they’re the plainest donut of all), chocolate glazed donuts are even better, but my favorite donut is the apple fritter. Crunchy, sweet, [...]
Filed under: apple, breakfast, donuts on February 11th, 2008 | 19 Comments »
Paula Deen is one of my favorite celebrity chefs on The Food Network. I have several of her cookbooks and have subscribed to her magazine since its inception about 2 years ago. I always find a handful of recipes to try from each issue of the magazine, and the March/April 2008 issue is no exception. [...]
Filed under: chicken on February 10th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Pecans, coconut, and chocolate are all favorites of mine. Any dessert that contains all of these things is a match made in heaven, in my opinion. I wanted to tackle a layer cake this week, and when I ran across this recipe in The Gourmet Cookbook for Inside-Out German Chocolate Cake, I knew I had [...]
Filed under: cake, chocolate, coconut, dulce de leche, pecans on February 10th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This week I bought blueberries on sale. The Picky Apple likes blueberry muffins (which surprises me a little), so I thought I’d make muffins for him to take to work. Unless I bake him something tasty (like Banana Crunch Muffins) for breakfast, he typically skips it. I’ve tried a few different blueberry muffin recipes from [...]
Filed under: blueberries, breakfast, cake, dessert, substitutions on February 7th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
One thing The Picky Apple DOES like is scrambled eggs. He also loves bacon. So every once in a while we have breakfast for dinner, with scrambled eggs, bacon, and hash browns. Many times this is in the form of breakfast tacos. This week I decided to take that to the next level and make [...]
Filed under: breakfast, eggs, potato on February 7th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Mardi Gras always brings back memories for me. My family spent many years living in Lafayette, Louisiana when I was younger, and my brother was born there. Mardi Gras is a big deal in Louisiana, obviously in New Orleans, but many other Louisiana towns celebrate Mardi Gras with parades and parties. In fact, I remember [...]
Filed under: cake, dessert on February 5th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I saw this recipe for Peanut Butter Ribbon Fudge Brownies recently on Anna’s blog Cookie Madness. Her blog is full of delicious cookie recipes, and she’s always posting something I can’t wait to try.
Quick sidenote: Here is Anna’s recipe for Baked Spinach and Chicken Stuffing that won her $1,000,000(!!) as the Grand Prize in the [...]
Filed under: brownies, chocolate, dessert on February 4th, 2008 | No Comments »
Did you know that February 5 is World Nutella Day? No? Me either, until recently. Last year, several bloggers got together and gave Nutella its very own holiday, and they are continuing the tradition this year. I’ve previously mentioned my love for Nutella, so when I heard about this holiday, I [...]
Filed under: Nutella, chocolate, dessert on February 2nd, 2008 | 4 Comments »
One of my favorite restaurants here in Houston is a local chain, Carrabba’s Italian Grill. They serve some amazing entrees, like the Pollo Rosa Maria–grilled chicken breast stuffed with fontina cheese and prosciutto, topped with mushrooms and a
basil lemon butter sauce. But before you are served your entree, they bring out hot crusty bread served [...]
Filed under: appetizer on February 1st, 2008 | No Comments »