Buttermilk Broccoli Salad

Buttermilk Broccoli Salad is such a refreshing summer salad. It has a great combination of fresh, raw broccoli and sinful bacon and cheese. This salad is relatively easy to make. We start off like any typical salad gathering or making the ingredients, then putting it all together. We start off with some crumbled bacon using …

Mac and Cheese Bites

Who doesn’t love baked Mac and Cheese? This dish is a classic Americana, and what is even better is that they are formed into individual serving sizes. Which makes it beautiful to display and also Covid friendly since there is no communal pot. Plus you don’t need to worry about getting your dish back since …

Bacon Wrapped Carrots

Carrots are not an exciting vegetable. There I said it. Its not that people dislike carrots, its just that no one looks forward to cooked carrots. I think it may be because no matter what cooked carrots always taste like carrots. Even when it’s slathered with butter and cinnamon. I wanted to break out from …

Barstool Cookies (with a gluten free version)

These Barstool Cookies I made as my individual project in the cookie section of Christina Tosi’s Milkbar class. Taking the principles we learned from the class we were instructed to create a recipe of our own to reflect a point in time.  I wanted to make a cookie that is a complimentary late night snack …

Beef Bourguignon

When I lived in the UK, eating out came in one of two styles. The first style was British, which was essentially pub food: meat pies, bangers and mash, pork pies, deep-fried fish and chips, Sunday Roast, gammon steak, and ploughman’s platter. While British cuisine doesn’t usually top the list of culinary experiences. It was …

Loaded Baked Potato Dip

Its almost Super Bowl Sunday, the day where we yell at all star athletes that we could do better then them. All while stuffing our faces with the impressive spread of pizza, wings, chips and dip. There is also a low key competition of who brings the best dip. No matter how your team does …

Turkey and Asparagus Roulade

My inspiration for this recipe also came about when I got over zealous during asparagus season and bought several bunches from my corner produce stand. It really is one of my favorite veggie!  Organic ground turkey was also on sale that week and I’d been considering different stuffed meat recipes as basic baked and grilled …

Apple Dijon Bacon Spinach Salad

Salad. Wow. Exciting. Groundbreaking. These were my exact thoughts as I attempted to make this salad. People tend to dismiss salads as boring or too simple. But this recipe is anything but boring. However it is simpler than it looks!  What I love about this salad is that you can make a lot of it …

Bacon Wrapped Blue Cheese Meatballs with Portobello Mushrooms

This recipe was per the request of my husband while he was on another keto diet kick. He requested meatballs with blue cheese and bacon, so I got my creative juices flowing and devised this fun skewered version! Blue cheese meatballs alternated on skewers with baby bella portobello mushrooms all wrapped in bacon.  My mouth …

Man Buns – Maple Bacon Peanut butter Morning Buns

Yes, you read that right, ‘Man Buns’.  I named these delectable breakfast pastries after the ubiquitous hipster male hairdo.  Why exactly? Well, for one, they are ‘buns’ and their signature swirl and inspiration from traditional ‘morning buns’ lends them to the name and ‘man’ because they are filled with ‘manly’ ingredients like bacon and peanut …

Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Bacon

As a kid I didn’t like Brussels sprouts. It’s not that I didn’t like the taste. I really just didn’t like them because they were smelly.  Every time my mom made them, she’d heat them in the microwave and the whole house would get that funky cabbage smell. As the mature child I was this …

Bacon & Gruyere Quiche

Bacon, Cheese, Pie….. What could be better? This was my exactly thought as I finally stumbled upon the perfect recipe to use up the last of the eggs in the carton. In the past, I always found quiches to be too dry and had that bland healthy taste. And really what could be better than …

The Perfect Bacon

Bacon, who doesn’t love bacon?  Bacon adds so much flavor to cooking and is just delicious on its own too.  Yes, I realize everyone doesn’t love bacon. But for those of us that do let’s get down to business and strategize how to make those perfect crispy slices! Tools of the Trade: The key to …