Chewy Sugar Cookies

Chewy Sugar Cookies Recipe

So, what’s your favorite cookie? Does the one up there make you drool or is it too plain Jane for you? The one that tops the charts for me is a soft, chewy oatmeal raisin cookie, especially when the raisins are the golden variety.   My …

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Arnold Palmer Slushie

Arnold Palmer Slushie

So, I was looking for this recipe on Good Housekeeping’s website (it’s not there yet), and almost got distracted by a blurb on their front page about what the Gerber baby looks like today. I resisted because I knew that if I started heading down that road, …

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Beef Marsala Stew

Beef Marsala Stew Recipe

I’m curious; what’s your normal knock-around-the-house wear during winter? Do you dress for show from nice shoes to coiffed hair even if you’re not expecting visitors? Or are you at the other end of the spectrum; opting for comfort in barely-decent sweats, ratty sweater and …

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Beefy Tortellini Skillet

beef tortellini skillet - The Tasty Hub

Here we are, a mere four days before Halloween. Are you ready? Candy bought? Fake spider webs draped across windows? Costumes at the ready? Other than the web thing (which I won’t do), I can say yes to all those questions, thank goodness. Sophie’s going …

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Asian Barbecue Chicken Wings

Asian BBQ Chicken Wings Recipe

I was at the grocery store the other day and ended up talking with a kid wearing a Wake Forest ball cap. Since Doug and I had just watched Clemson steal a win away from Wake in the final minute of the game, I mentioned it …

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Sweet and Sour Chicken

Sweet & Sour Chicken Recipe

I had an epiphany with this dish. It’s pretty cool when a dish of food will do that to a person. Well, it’s either awesome or someone needs to get out more. I’ll let you decide. You see, I don’t eat sweet and sour chicken …

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Southwestern Chili Tortilla Bake

Southwestern Chili Tortilla Bake Recipe

Rumor has it that one way to kill a frog is to put it in a pot of water and slowly increase the heat. It will never realize that it’s being boiled to death. Lovely thought, eh? I’ve recently realized that in a different way, …

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Vietnamese Caramel Pork Recipe

Vietnamese Caramel Pork Recipe

Did you ever see the movie ‘Roxanne’ with Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah?  If not, you should, it’s really cute, but I’m not asking because I want to be a movie critic. There’s a scene where Steve and Daryl are arguing on the porch of her house. …

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