Cuisines: American

Bacon Wrapped Tater Rounds

  Most of the time I try to eat at least semi-healthy food items.  Periodically, I like to treat myself by making a delicious, but clearly unhealthy food item.  This is one...

Santa Maria Tri Tip

Mike loves Tri Tip.  We used to get the marinated Tri Tip from Costco and cook them in the oven using the instructions on the package.  They were delicious!  We stopped buying these...

Pumpkin Pie Steel Cut Oatmeal

We had some pumpkin puree leftover in the refrigerator from various recipes.  Note that this is not “pumpkin pie mix”.  It is simply pumpkin puree.  It only contains pumpkin, and no other...

Graham Cracker Chocolate Chip Muffins

We had some graham crackers in the cupboard which were haunting me.  Every time I would open the cupboard, they kept saying “use me!”  Unfortunately most recipes that I make don’t include...

Cream Cheese Strawberry Cookies

A light and airy cooking spiced up by fresh Strawberries and white chocolate chips. We had a dinner planned with several of our good friends last night and wanted to bring a...

Cracklin’ Chicken

Here’s a story of, a chicken named cracklin’, and it was pretty amazingly good. Mike made it, and it was easy, and that’s how we became the Cracklin’ Bunch. The Cracklin’ Bunch....

Potato Ham Chowder

I bought a spiral sliced ham from Costco when they were on sale for 99 cents/lb.  I’m not sure why the ham was that cheap, since it wasn’t around a holiday when...

Garlic Parmesan Roasted Shrimp

I was reading in a book that many Europeans plan their meals for the day around what they were able to purchase at the local “farmers markets”.  I like to think that I...