We had just placed our orders when I saw it on the menu, pizza burger. I was determined to get one the next time we went. In the meantime, I kept on thinking about those greasy, yet delicious pizza burgers of my past. The small, local, soft-serve ice cream drive-up where we bought many of […]
Archives for March 2011
Lamb Stuffed Zucchini
There is a recipe in my newly acquired (but actually very old) cookbook, The Fannie Merritt Farmer Boston Cooking School Cookbook for Zucchini Stuffed with Lamb. It is a very brief recipe that leaves the seasoning details up to the reader. Taking inspiration (and the three ingredients mentioned) from the recipe, I developed my own. […]
Big Dutch Baby with Berries
Inspired by a recipe from my experience at the Taste of Home Cooking School, I decided to make a Big Dutch Baby in a more of a traditional method than than the puff pancake recipe demonstrated as part of the school. The Dutch Baby is also known as a German Pancake. It is not Dutch, […]
An Evening at Cooking School
My husband sent me to cooking school last weekend. Okay, so I had been wanting to go to one of the Taste of Home Cooking Schools for probably a decade or more, but I was never able to get tickets and/or not be teaching on the same night as the school before we moved. After […]
Trail Bologna and Cheese
When I was younger, my family would often travel a couple of hours to spend the day and shop in Ohio’s Amish Country. For lunch, we usually ate trail bologna and cheese on crackers that we would purchase from a local grocery store. Eventually, trail bologna became available in sandwich size slices instead of just […]
Simply Decadent Beef Tenderloin Steaks
A small splurge every once in a great while can sometimes be good for the soul – or at least that is what I told myself in the grocery store the other day. I was buying items to have a beef tenderloin steaks for dinner the next day. My extravagance was not the beef tenderloin […]
Grandma’s Corn Fritters
Later this week we will celebrate this post with a cake, but I lacked some basic ingredients needed to bake one today. Why? This is the 100th post on this little, but growing, food blog 🙂 I tried to decide how to celebrate this notable blog world occasion and finally decided on a celebratory cake […]
Veal and Peppers
One of my mother-in-law’s classic dishes is her veal and peppers. I usually do not make it because of the price of veal. However, it can be made using beef or chicken instead. I decided to go for it and make it with veal as a comforting treat for my husband after he was very […]
Umm…Please Use a Clean Spoon
Caution: Rant Ahead Although this blog is about positive food experiences for the most part, I find that I can no longer be silent about a . . .well, let’s call it a pet peeve of mine. I will confess that I like to watch cooking shows. It started as a child watching Julia Child […]
The French Market Creperie
If you are in the Knoxville, Tennessee area and in the mood for a crepe or just something different, I recommend checking out The French Market Creperie. This small, cute shop located in downtown Knoxville on South Gay Street has deliciously filled crepes served by a very friendly staff. We went for dinner. We were […]