My Chief Culinary Consultant is aptly named because he spent 38 years in the Fire Service, 22 years as a Chief. The Culinary Consultant part comes from the fact that he is always on the look-out for interesting recipes and is a ready and willing taste-tester! He did this long before this blog was even … Read more
When my Chief Culinary Consultant won second place in his age group at the Southern Tennessee Plunge Half-Marathon on Saturday I set off straight to the kitchen. After a cold-drizzly rain, falling temperatures, and an increasing wind I knew we would all need a good meal with a winning dessert. I started with the one … Read more
Happy Saturday friends! Are you having a beautiful autumn where you live? Our temperatures dropped into the 70’s during the day for about a week and a half lulling me into the I love fall mode. Then WHACK this week Indian Summer returned with gusto bringing with it temperatures in the 80’s and HUMIDITY! What … Read more
Last September when I received my copy of Southern Living magazine, the cover photo was their Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake. I loved the look of the cake and any fresh apple cake sounds wonderful to me. However, I was on my way to cruise the northern Atlantic for my 20th wedding anniversary and the … Read more
What do you think about caramel? The taste, slightly sweet, very rich, gooey? Truth is, I can get obsessed about caramel with just the slightest encouragement. There are the Sweet and Salty Chocolate Caramel Bars, and Banoffee Pie just for starters! As you already know I am a BIG fan of Turbinado sugar, also known … Read more
I love fall and it is quickly finding its way across the country. In my neck of the woods the temperatures are falling at night into the low 60’s. How glorious for the inner child in me, who continues to regularly play with matches 🙂 And while my menopausal mind longs for the coolness of … Read more