Napa Valley Spinach Salad with Pinot Noir Vinaigrette and Goat Cheese

Posted by on May 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment

If you have never tried any of the variations of Napa Valley Spinach Salad, you are really missing out on a delicious salad option. We eat a lot of salad, with a meal or as the main dinner meal all by itself. Typical “dinner salad” that consists of the basics many people include in their salads can get boring real fast, so we always try to come up with healthy recipes that offer different ideas of fruits and/or vegetables to add to our salads for variety and taste.

I recently enjoyed a version of the Napa Valley Spinach Salad with chicken at one of my favorite lunch spots, and couldn’t wait to make the salad at home for my family and visiting friends. To say that the Spinach Salad was a hit for everyone would be an understatement. There are many different ways of making the Napa Valley Spinach Salad, but the differences only amount to what fruits and/or vegetables you like or don’t like, as most of the ingredients are optional according to your tastes and likes.
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Green Bean Casserole Recipes – Classic Green Bean Casserole

Posted by on April 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Easter Sunday dinner meal recipes often includes green bean casserole, deviled eggs, sweet potato casserole, amongst other Easter holiday meal ideas. Our family has always enjoyed the Classic Green Bean Casserole by French’s, but there are many varieties of recipes for green bean casserole in cookbooks, recipe cards passed around family members and your favorite cookbooks.

Today, on Easter Sunday, I’m sharing two green bean casserole recipes that are sure to meet your family’s approval at the dinner table. We usually double the recipe to make sure everyone is able to enjoy this favorite recipe.
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Rachel Ray’s Deviled Egg Recipe – How to Make Deviled Eggs by Rachel Ray

Posted by on April 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Learning how to make deviled eggs via deviled egg recipes in cookbooks for Easter Sunday has been made easier by Rachel Ray. Rachel Ray has posted her Deviled Eggs recipe for everyone to make and enjoy.

Hopefully you already know how to boil eggs or how to make hard-boiled eggs, but from the look of things online it appears many young people especially don’t know how to do these very simple things.

Rachel Ray’s recipe for deviled eggs is below, including ingredients and detailed directions of how to make Rachel’s scrumptious deviled eggs. Happy Easter and Enjoy!
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Key Lime Bundt Cake – Oprah’s Favorite Things Recipe

Posted by on March 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Oprah’s 2004 favorite Gourmet Florida Key Lime Bundt Cake recipe is incredibly delicious and has become a family favorite in Grandma’s kitchen. The Oprah Winfrey Show had an annual segment called Oprah’s Favorite Things, or “The O List”, as it is sometimes referred.

Typically aired during the Thanksgiving holiday season, Oprah shared with her audience a list of things she believes are great gift ideas and products, and audience members participating in the taping of the segment receive free gifts to take home from her favorite things on that year’s list.
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Kids In The Kitchen Gooseberry Patch Cookbook Recipes

Posted by on December 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The Gooseberry Patch cookbook for kids called Kids in the Kitchen includes recipes that kids of all ages, including preschoolers, toddlers and older kids can enjoy the fun of cooking in the kitchen with mom or dad, or even Grandma and Grandpa.

Kids need to be in the kitchen rather than being shooed away, so children can learn the basics of nutrition, healthy food choices, correct portion sizes and much more. Gooseberry Patch cookbooks are not just for adults, and as a Grandma who raised 6 kids and now has two grandchildren, I love the great ideas found in these cookbooks for kids.

Cooking with kids in the kitchen is a fun activity that should be encouraged rather than discouraged. The Kids in the Kitchen: Recipes for Fun cookbook was designed exclusively with little kids in mind, and the list of recipes found in this cookbook will help little chefs want to learn how to cook lots of good food!
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Grandma’s Cooking Ham Roll Ups in Grandma’s Kitchen

Posted by on December 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment

What’s cooking Grandma? Grandma’s kitchen is a favorite place to be at Grandma’s house when the kids and grandchildren are in town, and one of Grandma’s recipes that continues to be popular is Grandma’s ham roll ups recipe with broccoli.

Being a Grandma is wonderful, and passing along to my children and grandchildren many of their favorite recipes that have been prepared for them over the years is an added perk. People that haven’t learned how to make ham roll ups, or broccoli ham roll ups, are really missing out on a great recipe.

I would guess that many of the recipes given to me over the years originally came from my Grandma or great grandmother, but I can’t be sure of that. Cooking in the kitchen with my mother as I was growing up usually meant we were baking cookies or other sweet treats, as she preferred to be cooking in the kitchen by herself when preparing or cooking dinner meals for a family of eight, and that was ok.
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Spiked Coffee Recipes Taste Better Than Beer

Posted by on December 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment

We love drinking coffee and it’s not because of any health benefits derived from coffee. No, that would be too simple. Regular, home brewed coffee tastes good to me and Grandpa, but nothing tastes better than when we create our own recipes for spiked coffee. Spiked coffee, in all of its goodness, tastes a lot better than beer ever could.

Grandpa enjoys his crown and coke on occasion too, and we’re not opposed to doing a little wine tasting from time to time either, but neither of us are big drinkers either way. Getting together with friends over the holidays usually includes trying a new brand of wine with dinner, or as an after dinner drink, but I don’t think I’ll ever become accustomed to being a wine drinker.

There’s nothing wrong with drinking wine, if that’s your thing, but I’m more of a mixed drink type person. Margarita’s with Mexican food is an all-time favorite, but offer me a cup of coffee with Baileys Irish Cream, Kahlua or whiskey in it and it’s all good from there on. I’ve seen some spiked coffee recipes online that recommend adding vodka to coffee, but that’s one I haven’t tried. Yet.
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Gooseberry Patch Christmas Books, Cookbooks, Calendar, Gifts and Recipes

Posted by on October 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Gooseberry Patch ChristmasChristmas will be here before you know it, and if you like Gooseberry Patch Christmas cookbooks loaded with great country recipes as much as I do, you will love the new Gooseberry Patch cookbook. As a mother and grandma, cooking is not just a necessity but is also one of many fun activities or hobbies to be enjoyed. When I discovered the Gooseberry Patch company a few years ago, I was immediately hooked on the delicious recipes found in all the cookbooks I could find to buy.

Needless to say, I’ve been starting my own collection of Gooseberry Patch cookbooks that I will have a great time experimenting with when the kids and grandkids come over. Since I’m an avid reader of books of all kinds, especially cookbooks with great recipes and stories, I was thrilled to receive my very first cookbook by Gooseberry Patch.

I have so many recipe cards filling recipe boxes in what I jokingly refer to as “Grandma’s Kitchen”, I really need to take the time to use the organizer I bought from Gooseberry Patch, and then choose a couple of my best recipes to send to Gooseberry Patch for possible inclusion in their next cookbook.
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