Recipe: 12 minute Macaroni & Cheese – from scratch!

Want macaroni from scratch in 12 minutes with ingredients you’ve got in your pantry?  This is the recipe for you…..I eat this at least once per week (of course on running days).  My sister and I LOVED weekends we would go to Grandma’s house, watch Tom & Jerry and Fat Albert and eat Micro Mac [...]

Recipe: 5 Star Steak on a 2 Star budget–It’s the Merlot Sauce

Tough times doesn’t have to mean serving friendly carnivors tough meat.  For a friend’s birthday Sunday, I wanted a great grilled steak and I am on a limited budget.   With a fabulous sauce, a less expensive cut of meat (like a sirloin tip), plus my handy tenderizer, I can plate a steak worthy of a 5-star restaurant.  This [...]

Tools: Meat Tenderizer

The right meat tenderizer can make a less expensive cut of meat seem like a filet minion.  I love this Jaccard 15 Knife Meat Tenderizer and use it often.  There are 15 tiny blades that really tenderize quickly and efficiently.  It also allows marinade to really permeate the meat and shortens cooking time.  This tool will [...]

Recipe: Heavenly Chocolate Zucchini Cake

What to do with a zucchini on steroids?  As the season gears up, that’s a common question among enthusiastic gardeners.  This recipe from grandma is really heavenly  (yummy chocolate) but fresh & trendy (orange zesty) and delicious in a bundt cake with simple glaze or cupcakes with rich cream cheese frosting (my fav!) , and surely the [...]

Tools: Herb scissors

So my mom called all excited about these Multi-Blade Herb Scissors.  I thought they sounded ridiculous, but they’re actually amazingI used them to cut parsley and cilantro without having to get the leaves stuck to my fingers and potentially whacking off a fingernail trying to chop them into bits.  

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