The Mission to Please: My Mission BBQ Experience As a southerner the word barbeque is a phrase that can be associated with other words like air, water, and survival. Born in and raised in Oklahoma and having Alabama, Georgia, and Florida roots BBQ’s are a daily occurrence at home. Some much so that I did…
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Great Grains Cherry Crunch Parfait #GreatGrains
Great Grains Cherry Crunch Parfait Summer always leads me to find creative ways to feed my family. It’s so hot some days that cooking is out of the question. Plus the kids are off from school so I want to make sure whatever I make for family is delicious but easy as well. During the…
Bacon Blue Cheese Burger Sliders
Bacon Blue Cheese Burger Sliders Summer is not summer without some grilling. Apartment living can make that challenging at times but we try to get out to the park to grill as much as we can. For the days when we can’t make it outdoors we end up using my T-Fal OptiGrill for all our…
Summer Berries Fruit Salad
Summer Berries Fruit Salad One of my favorites things about summer is the good prices on all the berries. During the summer months you get the best sale prices on Strawberries, Blueberries and other summer season berries. When our family when to the beach for Memorial day and to celebrate two of our son’s birthday’s…
15 Tequila Recipes to Try this Summer
15 Tequila Recipes to Try this Summer Summer is in full swing and while some people don’t like cooking as much in the summer months I like being able to break out my grill. It’s an electric indoor grill but we also head outdoors to the local park or my parents house when we have…
Father’s Day Recipes Kids Can Help With
Father’s Day Recipes Kids Can Help With Father’s Day is right around the corner and if you’re still working on what you are planning for the fathers in your life I found some great options from Choya at Just A Splash of Diva. She created a great roundup of 15 Kid Friendly Recipes for Father’s Day….
Giant Foods Introduces Limoncello Line of Products
Giant Foods Introduces Limoncello Line of Products Summer always makes me think of lemons and other citrus fruits. It’s usually the time of year I bake up lemon bars, lemon blondies, key-lime pie and tons of other citrus inspired baked goods. This summer Giant Foods has introduced their Limoncello line of products, available for a…
Pizza Night Is A Breeze with Rustic Crust
Pizza Night Is A Breeze with Rustic Crust My six year old son has developed an obsession with pizza thanks to his newly found love of all things Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He feels like pizza is the only food that should be on the menu at all times. We of course don’t give him…
Safeway Upgrades to USDA Choice Beef
Safeway Upgrades to USDA Choice Beef If you’ve been in a Safeway store in the Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia area you may have noticed that all their Eastern Division stores have upgrades from Rancher’s Reserve to USDA Choice Beef. “The USDA grading system communicates to the consumer a level of confidence in…
Stage a Nugget-vention with KFC Popcorn Nuggets
Stage a Nugget-vention with KFC Popcorn Nuggets There are days I love cooking a huge meal for my family and then there are days when I don’t even want to get in the kitchen. Even when I am not making the meal myself for my family I want to make sure what they eat is…
Trinidad Coconut Milk Fudge
Trinidad Coconut Milk Fudge When I was a little girl M& M’s and Snickers were rare treats, the only way to get them was when my grandmother would visit the United States – the States like we call it in Trinidad. Even then there wasn’t a guarantee she would bring us back of the special…
Yummy Ways to Cook with Steak
Yummy Ways to Cook with Steak Steak is a great choice when you are celebrating something or just feel like treating yourself and your family. I have a recipe book full of delicious ways to serve up steak, and here are just a few of the yummiest. Fried steak So comforting and indulgent at the…
Sweet Corn Bread Recipe with Corn
Sweet Corn Bread Recipe with Corn My husband is from Oklahoma and he likes when I make southern inspired meals that remind him of home and his grandmother. While we were living in Winston-Salem, NC I started making a corn bread recipe from scratch that he loved, over time I perfected it and made it…
It’s Spicy, It’s Sweet, It’s Henry’s Humdingers
It’s Spicy, It’s Sweet, It’s Henry’s Humdingers Do you like foods that are spicy and sweet? Are you looking to add some kick to your holiday meals? Henry’s Humdingers is a raw and natural condiment, made of natural honey and spices. It’s just what you need to give all your holiday dishes that extra kick…
Choose Fresh Tomatoes from NatureSweet
Choose Fresh Tomatoes from NatureSweet I never realized how many different varieties of tomatoes there are on the market. Growing up in Trinidad I was just used to the big red tomatoes that you use for just about everything. I remember the first time I saw tiny tomatoes, they reminded me of grapes. Over the…