Glad to Give: Cookies for Kids’ Cancer

Cancer sucks.  There’s no other way to put it.  Honestly, this is a food blog so I rarely if ever talk about it, but cancer is definitely one of those things that I just don’t understand – especially that, with all of our advances in medicine and science, how we still haven’t found the cure.  Or at least a preventative.  Or something!!!  It’s so frustrating to know that we’re still not there yet.  With that in mind, I recently signed up for a Foodbuzz Tastemaker’s Program to help spread awareness about a really special program.  From my email: Did you [...]

Recipe Fridays: Chipotle Lime Crusted Chicken

As I mentioned in my post about the Hellmann’s Chicken Challenge (and if you haven’t entered their contest yet, why not?), I made their recipe for chipotle lime encrusted chicken.  This time, I remembered to take pictures so you can see what it looks like.  I started off with the Perdue perfect portions – 5 individually vacuum-sealed boneless-skinless chicken breasts.  When I picked up the chicken, I threw the whole package in the freezer immediately.  So I took two out to defrost in the morning and by the time I was ready to cook, they were both fully defrosted and [...]

Arepas

Last week, I mentioned working on a chocolate bread based off the banana nut bread recipe. I’m close. I’m really, really close, but not quite there yet with the recipe.  So we will wait another week or two for that recipe.  This week, we’re talking arepas.  I mentioned in my first post, I’ll share my triumphs and my not-so greats. This recipe for arepas, from the Maseca website, sort of falls into both categories. Several months ago, I purchased a bag of masa harina to make corn tortillas. It’s something I’ve wanted to try for a long time, and decided [...]

Banana Nut Bread

I hate bananas.  I don’t like to eat them.  I don’t really like things flavored with them.  However, there are two applications of banana that I crave: banana nut bread and banana spring rolls.  I’ve wanted to tweak Ruhlman’s quick bread ratio to make a chocolate quick bread that has been bouncing around in my head.  To familiarize myself with the ratio, I made a very straight forward banana bread found in the book.  Next week, we’re going to make the chocolate creation. For this recipe, we will need the following ingredients: 8 ounces unbleached white flour (about 1 and [...]

Hellmanns Chicken Challenge at Chicken Stadium

Hellmann’s recently created “Chicken Stadium” to host a showdown of three of their top chicken recipes on their website.  They invited a couple of big names to demonstrate the quick&easy recipes for us to watch, and live-streamed the event.  Our first ‘contestant’ was Mark Consuelos, with the #1 recipe on Hellmans’s website, parmesan crusted chicken.  Next was Chef Tim Love, with chipotle lime crusted chicken.   There was a third contestant, but because of where I was sitting, I was unable to get a clean shot of her.  Sissy Biggers presented BBQ cheddar crusted chicken.  After the quick demos – each [...]

Next Page »