Compound Butter Our freezer has your normal items and then I have a small section for flavored butters. I love making flavored butters and normally have a few in the freezer ready to go. Chipotle lime butter, rosemary butter, basil butter, and many others will be in a baggie in my freezer ready to take out when needed. I thought I was original ...
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Vodka Pie Crust Recipe
Vodka Pie Crust Recipe Recently a few of our local grocery stores had an amazing sale on select spirits. Shoppers hit the stores to stock their shelves with wine, rum, Irish cream, and vodka. Personally, I have been buying the vodka to use for cooking since it was such an awesome price. {Okay... okay... confession time --- I do like a martini ...
Homemade Boursin Cheese
Homemade Boursin Cheese I love Boursin cheese but man is it some expensive stuff! When I lived overseas in Turkey I couldn't get it all the time so I tried my hand at making my own to serve at dinner parties {and just to snack on for myself}. A friend gave me her recipe that I used to use and it's long gone. Twenty years later I am still ...
Crock Pot Green Bean Casserole
Crock Pot Green Bean Casserole When your oven is being used by your holiday ham, turkey and tasty sides dishes ---- let your slow cooker do the work for you to make this green bean casserole! For some reason I own two of them and not sure why but when the holidays roll around, I am very grateful they are in my cabinet! Click here to read about ...
Deep Fried Green Beans
Deep Fried Green Beans This deep friend green bean recipe uses several of my FAVORITE ingredients such as panko bread crumbs, chipotle and Tony Chachere's seasoning. I don't like green beans and never really have but this is the only way that I will eat them {if you could hear me talking you could hear the deep south in my voice as I talk about ...