Spicy Peanut-Lime Grilled Chicken Salad Recipe

Spicy Peanut Lime Grilled Chicken Salad

I make various versions of this Spicy Peanut-Lime Grilled Chicken Salad a lot in the summer.  Especially since, chicken and peanut butter are two of the few higher protein foods my daughter will eat.  She has been on a chicken kick lately, and selected chicken on her “talker” (tablet used as a communication device), along [...]

Artichoke Bean Dip with Sweet Onion Recipe

artichoke bean dip featured

 Artichoke Bean Dip with Sweet Onion As you can see below,  I bought a lot of artichokes last time I popped into our local discount store, so when I got home, I searched for a new recipe to use some in. I found an old Cooking Light recipe on their website for a Sweet Onion, [...]

Tuscan Garbanzo Bean Dip

tuscan bean dip feature

I was browsing the pages of the new Cooking Light‘s new cookbook, Real Family Food and was pleased with the selection of recipes included.  They were realistic choices, for just who the book is targeted at, “real families”.  As someone who tries to cook as much as I can from scratch, I especially thought the [...]

Grandma’s Banana Jam Reincarnated!

how to make banana jam

When I was a kid (ahem…way back in the 1970′s), my mother used to make us this banana jam that we LOVED.  We lived in a rural area, and she did a ton of canning and  made other preserves, but this is the thing she stocked our cupboards with, that really stood out for me.  [...]

Basil Simple Syrup Recipe

basil simple syrup natural sugar

Basil simple syrup is a flexible condiment to have on hand. In this simple syrup recipe, I have used turbinado sugar (raw cane sugar).  The less processed sugar maintains some of the original nutrients of the plant & naturally adding color to the syrup, making it a better choice.  While I used a mixture of [...]