Want the perfect accompaniment to these dog days of summer? You definitely need a top-of-the-line blender to help mix your vegetables for some awesome chilled gazpacho or to mix your fruits and yogurt for a refreshing morning smoothie! If you don't have a Ninja professional blender, you're missing out. The Ninja Professional N600 Blender has an insane 6-blade technology that makes it as simple to blend gazpacho, soups, marinades, sauces and spreads as it is to chopping whole veggies at once! I received my first Ninja two years ago and … [Read more...]
July 4th Recipes
July 3, 2013 By 1 Comment
I can't remember the last 4th of July where I didn't go to a BBQ or watch fireworks somewhere. When I went to sleep away camp, there were always some sort of red, white, and blue festivities with equally pleasing patriotic cookies coupled with red, white and blue bug juice. Since then, I've always tried to be patriotic on the festive day. Before I really got jazzed about cooking, this simply meant buying American flags for my kids to wave around. However, now that my pantry is actually stocked, it's fun to show our true colors and … [Read more...]
Secret Recipe Club: Crab Cakes
June 24, 2013 By 8 Comments
My favorite day of the month is the Secret Recipe Club reveal day. I’m honored to be a part of this diverse international group of food bloggers. In case you forgot, everyone in the Secret Recipe Club gets “assigned” a blog from which we are supposed to pick a dish to cook. But, it’s all done in secrecy. It isn’t until the ultimate reveal day (today) that everyone showcases the dishes and discovers who’s been their secret foodie link. This club has provided me valuable exposure to blogs I might not otherwise encounter. My assignment this … [Read more...]
Perfect Pesto
June 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
(If you are reading the post via RSS feed, you will need to click over to the site to view the video) You probably already guessed that I'd post about Pesto at least once this summer. After all, homemade Pesto sauce is my family's favorite new spread! We now add it to everything from pasta, to eggs, to sandwiches; we're always looking for more ways of integration. What's the best part about pesto? There aren't many ingredients involved and, it freezes well. So, you can do what we did when we learned to make pesto: make an obscene … [Read more...]
