August 2018

Making Hasselback potatoes have been on my list forever. But you know I had to add some drama in the way of color…

If you are looking for something a bit more elegant to serve this Labor Day weekend or at your next soiree, I…

Stick a fork in the summer, it’s done. Here in the states, most of us like to stick a barbecue fork in…

It beat’s me why I started singing  (in my head)  the very American song, Yankee Doodle while I was making this tart…

It’s been so hot here in Germany I’ve avoided the stove like the plague. I finally caved and used the stove top…

 The first thing I do, after clearing immigration in Germany is head to a newsstand to scoop up some German cooking magazines.…

I love this recipe I found years ago in a German cooking magazine. It looked complicated at first glance because I only…

Recently, I brought this Golden Beet Horseradish Salad to a river potluck party. Surprisingly, I could not believe how many people complimented…

Once upon a time, I planted several varieties of mint in my garden. Peppermint, orange mint, lemon mint, chocolate mint, grapefruit mint…

I’m all about these 20-minute sexy salads so I dug this one out of my archives. I had a version of this…

The newest Carnival Cruise Ship, the Carnival Horizon was parked in my city and I was invited aboard for a tour of…

I admit I was feeling a bit ho-hum about visiting my local farmer’s market. The same produce was there week after week…

Whenever I buy cans of chipotle in adobo sauce, no matter what recipes I’m using them for, I always seem to have an…

It’s been a while since my last flammkuchen post. It was time to create another one. I saw this recipe in an…