Hello! Today I’m going to share with you my recipe for a Luscious Apricot Crumble. I prepared this delicious, summery dessert last weekend to take to a friend’s house where we enjoyed a wonderful summer supper on his terrace overlooking the Lake Arrowhead golf course. There is a small window when apricots (one of my […]
I love to eat fish but I’ll admit it, cooking fish is not my forté. That’s why I often order it when dining out. I particularly love halibut and knew that my girlfriend Cindy, the guest of honor at the birthday dinner party I recently hosted, loved halibut too. So I decided to serve Halibut […]
Greetings! Today I’m sharing my delicious recipe for Golden Bell Pepper Soup With Basil Oil. I made this warm and comforting soup for the birthday dinner party I recently hosted. I’m a soup lover and will make it any time of year. But since we are still experiencing some cold weather here in Lake Arrowhead, […]
Hi there. Last week I took you to the birthday dinner party I hosted. On the menu was Brazilian Cheese Bread (Pão de Queijo) and I promised to give you the recipe. Ever since I first tasted them at the Brazilian BBQ restaurant, Fogo de Chao, I have been trying to perfect the art of making Brazilian […]
Buonjiorno! As I’ve mentioned on several occasions, Brad & I have a small group of good friends that get together about once a month for what we call our Comfort Food Dinners. Each month the host couple picks a theme and provides the main course. Everyone else contributes to the dinner in keeping with the […]
Peppermint Hot Cocoa Gifts From The Kitchen This week I will be attending my annual Holiday Book Club meeting. This month we read a book that I really enjoyed called Orphan Train. Christina Baker Kline’s smash bestseller is a lovely novel about the search for family that also happens to illuminate a fascinating and forgotten […]
How To Make Homemade Peppermint Bark Greetings and thanks so much for stopping in today for a lesson on how to make Homemade Peppermint Bark. In my last post I showed you the holiday party I hosted for my Comfort Food Group. I made the Peppermint Bark to give to my guests as holiday party […]
Cream Cheese and Pesto Christmas Mold In a recent post entitled Easy Yet Elegant Holiday Snacks I showed you how to make this Cream Cheese and Pesto Christmas Mold as part of a larger blog post. It didn’t include a printable recipe so today I thought I’d reintroduce it as a stand-alone blog post with […]
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