10-minute restaurant style guacamole

10-minute restaurant style guacamole

Restaurant style guacamole is so easy to make with just a few simple ingredients.  It’s even more fun to blend with the help of a molcajete grinding bowl.  Serve the guacamole with chips and cold beer.  Life is good! I LOVE guacamole.  Is it wrong 

Plans for an Italian themed book club

Plans for an Italian themed book club

I love reading for pleasure.  What a great way to escape daily stress or learn about new places and cultures.  Books are even more fun and interesting when you can discuss or debate the content with friends.  What a great way to catch-up, hear what’s 

Cool Cocktails for Hot Summer Days & Nights

Cool Cocktails for Hot Summer Days & Nights

Cocktails are a great way to relax and cool down on a hot summer day or night.  We love to hang out on our patio with a cool cocktail after gardening.  This gives us a chance to slow down and enjoy the scenery we have 

Italian Prosciutto Wrapped Pesto Chicken Sheet Pan Dinner

Italian Prosciutto Wrapped Pesto Chicken Sheet Pan Dinner

Sheet pan dinners are a great way to prepare easy, delicious, and healthy meals for your family and friends.  This Italian Pesto Chicken Sheet Pan dinner is packed with flavor.  The balsamic marinated vegetables provide a nice contrast to the basil and prosciutto flavor of 

Brie Bite Appetizers with Cranberry or Drunken Onions

Brie Bite Appetizers with Cranberry or Drunken Onions

If you need a quick and easy appetizer, you can’t beat baked brie in crescent dough.  Top it off with cranberry sauce or drunken onions and add a sprig of fresh rosemary for a little extra kick.  Baked brie bites disappear quickly from any appetizer 

Enjoy Fall Cranberries with Sauce, Crisp and Cocktail recipes

Enjoy Fall Cranberries with Sauce, Crisp and Cocktail recipes

Cranberries are a small, interesting fruit with a tart flavor that can be enjoyed in many dishes ranging from appetizers, sauce, stuffing, crisp, candy, and cocktails.  Cranberries have been reported to provide a wide range of health benefits, including control of chronic inflammation, chronic cardiovascular 

10 Easy, Low Mess, Transportable Tailgate Recipes

10 Easy, Low Mess, Transportable Tailgate Recipes

  It’s fall and it’s football season.  You have tickets for game day.  Now it’s time to plan the tailgate menu.  Here is a collection of easy, low mess, transportable tailgate recipes to get you started. This post contains affiliate links.  If you make a 

Grilled oyster recipes that everyone can enjoy

Grilled oyster recipes that everyone can enjoy

Raw oysters are great, but try grilling/broiling with spinach, garlic & Parmesan or Chorizo & cheddar. Don’t like raw oysters? Try these recipes. As a kid, I spent a significant part of my summers down  in Gulf  Shores, Alabama.  We loved slow-living on the bay, 

Parchment paper cooking:  Eat a healthy fish dinner & spend more time with family

Parchment paper cooking: Eat a healthy fish dinner & spend more time with family

This post contains affiliate links.  If you make a purchase, I will receive a small percentage of the seller’s profit at no additional cost to you.  Please see my Privacy Policy and Terms of Use for additional information. Life happens fast.  We all have too many 

Plan an Oktoberfest celebration for family and friends

Plan an Oktoberfest celebration for family and friends

This post contains affiliate links.  If you make a purchase, I will receive a small percentage of the seller’s profit at no additional cost to you.  Please see my Privacy Policy and Terms of Use for additional information. OKTOBERFEST!  The best fall party of them all!