How to Make Monkey Bread There is nothing better than the smell of homemade bread in the oven to fill your home with amazing aromas of the goodness of baking something sweet. One of the easiest and most popular sweet breads in my home to make is homemade monkey bread {aka pull apart bread}. Monkey bread, also called monkey puzzle bread, sticky ...
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Tomato Puree and Strawberry Butter With Toast
Tomato Puree and Strawberry Butter With Toast While dining at the Wine Kitchen at the Generations Riviera Maya, there was one dish that I could not get enough of. Surprisingly, it is incredibly simple ingredients to make up an amazing taste, Tomato Puree and Strawberry Butter With Toast. [irp posts="47982" name="Dining at Generations Riviera ...
Panko Breaded Baked Chicken
Panko Breaded Baked Chicken This is one of the easiest baked chicken recipes to make and what makes it wonderful is that the kids really enjoy it and ask for it often. The kids call it our "go-to" chicken recipe as when we can't figure out what to cook, this is the dish that is normally served. Sometimes I will do a chicken breast or slice it ...
Thai Peanut Sauce Recipe
Thai Peanut Sauce Recipe Looking for a good Thai peanut sauce recipe? Found it! I love a good Thai peanut sauce to dip my chicken skewers in or chicken nuggets or .... my newly found love that I am trying to replicate which is Cafe Zupas Thai Peanut Chicken sandwich. I have to admit I have eaten "several" times {cough cough} since the ...
Smores Dessert Recipes
Smores Dessert People say the Apple Pie is the all American dessert but for me, it's S'mores! The dessert that is enjoyed in the great outdoors or at home. For the love of the great American dessert, below are some amazing ooey and gooey Smores recipes to try... there's everything from Smores flavored drinks to pies. Yum... PIE! Smores Drink ...
Easy Chicken and Dumplings
Easy Chicken and Dumplings Being from the south you grow up on southern recipes like chicken and dumplings. It's been a while since I have made them so I started researching recipes and found nothing that sounded like my grandmother's chicken and dumplings. [irp posts="45494" name="Vietnamese Pho Recipe for the Crock Pot"] I see so ...
Spiderman Cookie Recipe
Spiderman Cookie Spiderman Day is on August 1 and I surfed the web to find some fun ideas to share with you. One of my favorites is this fun find for Spiderman Cookies by SnackPicks. I modified the recipe to fit my tastes and you can do the same if needed. I chose a cookie that my family would eat {meaning me} and instead of using a pre-made ...
Roasted Eggplant Soup
Eggplant Soup When Bob and I visited New Orleans back in Spring of 2005 we were able to enjoy a lot of what the city has to offer. Of course the food and music were the top of our list and this eggplant soup recipe traveled back home with us! We dined at both NOLA and Emeril's while there and one night they served this eggplant soup at one of ...
Red Wine Reduction
One of my favorite restaurants in Las Vegas {Firefly} for hanging with friends serves this amazing dish of bacon wrapped dates with a red wine reduction and blue cheese. Can you say O-M-G! The drive is about 20 minutes to get there and this lazy butt hates to drive so I will make this dish at home when I feel the craving coming. We don't ...
Potato Gnocchi Recipe
I love when potatoes are on sale as they are so versatile I can do so much with them. When they hit $.10 a pound I stock up and it's play time in the kitchen... for Bob! Most gnocchi recipes call for russet potatoes but we like to make ours with a sweeter potato... the Yukon Gold. Don't be intimated to make potato gnocchi as it is not as hard as ...
10 Tips to Skinnier Desserts + Strawberry Poke Cake Using 7UP TEN
Living in Vegas our warm weather clothes period is longer than most folks across the nation. For some reason when spring hits I start thinking about that cute skirt or shorts for summer. Then, I will remember that it is __ sizes smaller than what I am now {not filling in that blank}. Spring is here and you know what that means... summer is ...
Pasta Bar | Smart & Final One-Stop Shopping
I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper amplification for Collective Bias and its advertiser. #ChooseSmart, #shop, #cbias #CollectiveBias Yesterday, I shopped at Smart & Final to purchase the ingredients needed to develop a few recipes to try for our ...