Chocolate “Bakery” Like Cake?

I LOVE to cook.  I like mixing things together and making them taste amazing.  Trying different combinations until it is just what I know my family will like.  I don’t bake often.  It is not something I enjoy.  You have to be so exact in your measurements and there is not quite so much room…

Bobotie

The first time I had bobotie was at a Food & Wine Festival in Epcot, Walt Disney World.  We thought it was great but had never heard of it before.  At that time trying to find a recipe for a dish from South Africa, before Google, was pretty near impossible.  No one knew what I…

Chicken Francese – Rachel Ray

We had chicken thawing in the fridge and not very much else on the cupboard shelves.  I started searching for recipes and found in Every Day with Rachel Ray a recipe for Chicken or Fish Francese-wiches.  Well, I did not have bread, arugula, paprika, lemons or tomatoes but being adventurous as I am decided to…

Cheeseburger Frittata

As we are finishing eating out of our pantry, refrigerator and freezer to clean them all out it is getting harder and harder to come up with meals.  The only thing I am buying is a few fresh fruits and vegetables and dairy.  Other than that ingredients must all come  from staples found in my…

Ham and Egg Cups

  Dinner on Thursdays has become breakfast for dinner.  I found this recipe in a Rachel Ray magazine although it is not a Rachel Ray recipe. Ingredients: 1 dozen slices of deli Virginia Baked Ham 1 dozen eggs diced green pepper, red pepper and onion (about 2/3 cup total) 1/2 cup of shredded Parmesan cheese…

French Toast with Breakfast Sausages

Even thought I am playing this silly little dinner game with myself I still have all the obligations I had before and tonight was one of those nights.  I found the quickest thing on my dinner list that I could prepare and off I went to two Parent Teacher Association (PTA) meetings. Plain old-fashioned French…