Solvang is the place to go to get the largest variety of danish’s served in the smallest town in California. There’s no point going there without picking up one. It had me thinking the other day, I am a good 3-4 hour drive away from Solvang and I sat there and questioned myself if I…
Month: November 2008
Krispy Kreme Bread Pudding With Espresso Whipped Cream
For this week’s Magazine Monday Event, hosted by Retorte, I have a very old recipe I’ve been saving to try for the Holidays. I finally used it and I highly recommended this bread pudding recipe found in 2005 issue of Food and Wine Magazine. When I came across this recipe years ago, I new I…
Brown Sugar Apple Cheesecake
Happy Thanksgiving! I’m not cooking this big feast of a dinner as my mom loves to put her all into this holiday. I’m eager to make the desserts though, last year I went with the traditional Maple Pecan Pie, but this year I wanted to try a different path. How often do I get to…
Coconut Crusted Salmon With Tamarind Barbecue Sauce
I’m always looking for new ways to make Salmon, I came across this recipe and thought the ingredients sounded interesting together. Turmeric with Coconut? Yet this came together nicely, the taste of a rather strong spice as Turmeric with a subtle hint of coconut and panko combination worked out really well. The sauce was sweet…
Magazine Monday’s- New Mexico’s Chili Glazed Chicken with hominy polenta
For this week’s Magazine Monday event I wanted to try something out of the new issue of Bon Appetit for December 2008. I wanted something healthy and this New Mexico’s Chili Glazed Chicken with Hominy Polenta sounded healthy. I love hominy, it tasted really nice and light with this chicken and the sauce was very…
Shrimp Curry
I made this very delicious Shrimp Curry last night. The taste is very similar to Thai cooking but the dish is South Indian food. I was told South Indian food uses lots of coconut milk like Thai cooking does. My husband’s family is from Gujarat, the food is not sweet at all but rather spicy…
Beer Chili
Recipe Adapted from Bon Appetit I was in need of a beer with dinner tonight so I had to come up with a dish that would go good with beer. What better dish than a chili made with a 12 oz beer added to it. I plan on making this again. I love good recipe…
Pumpkin Cookies
My little lady bug 🙂 I carved this pumpkin, not to bad eh…. 🙂 Recipe adapted from Joy The Baker. Finding recipes that work out in my favor are always a treat, I’m so glad I came across these pumpkin cookies as I’m not much of a pumpkin fan to begin with but these worked…
Taste Of Sweet 