Hello from the Nestle Culinary Center!

Yesterday, Nestle flew me to Solon, Ohio to attend a day-long conference and roundtable discussion on the topic of Let’s Fix Dinner. This morning we started out in the Nestle Baking Kitchen meeting with Jenny from VeryBestBaking.com and eating fresh-baked cookies (YUM). Then we moved into their Culinary Center which is like a huge kitchen [...]

New show coming from Food Network- Sandra’s Money Saving Meals

Well-known for her trademark Semi-Homemade cooking style, Sandra Lee now has her sights set on saving money!  Her new daytime cooking series, Sandra’s Money Saving Meals, features incredible budget-friendly recipes for every day of the week.  To maximize cost-saving success, Sandra shares unique ideas for savvy supermarket shopping, proper pantry stocking, and menu price points.  [...]

Enter the Steak-umm ‘Hometown Burger’ Contest

Got a thing for Wisconsin cheese? Boston baked beans? Georgia peaches? New Mexico chiles? Fly your favorite food flag in the Steak-umm “Hometown Burger’ recipe contest, using an ingredient that is closely associated with a city or state. Who knows – maybe you’ll invent the next Philly cheesesteak!

Simply use a special local food [...]

Four Foods on Friday 74

Here are this week’s questions for Four Foods on Friday:

#1. What’s your favorite flavor of yogurt?

Vanilla. Especially with fruit and cereal mixed in!

#2. Got a recipe for a smoothie?

Yep, my Goji Raspberry Vanilla Smoothie.

#3. Got a recipe for split pea soup?

No, because ewwwwww.

#4. What’s your favorite kind [...]

Foodbuzz reaches 2000 Featured Publishers!

I was thrilled when I was invited to join Foodbuzz as a Featured Publisher. I couldn’t believe anyone was even reading my tiny little food blog. But the great thing about Foodbuzz is, you don’t have to have thousands of readers to participate! (luckily for me lol)

Please take a minute and read this press [...]

Hungry Girl EZ Tomato Basil Chicken

The link for this recipe was in today’s Hungry Girl newsletter. Three ingredients? I’m SO making this!

EZ Tomato Basil Chicken PER SERVING (1/4th of recipe): 175 calories, 1.5g fat, 251mg sodium, 11g carbs, 2g fiber, 6g sugars, 28g protein — POINTS® value 3*

Toss leftovers on top of lettuce for a [...]

Menu Monday- 4/20

For this week’s menu plan, I’m using mainly The Low G.I. Diet by Rick Gallop. If you are familiar with The Zone diet, or South Beach, or the new Weight Watchers Simply Filling Technique, that is what a low glycemic index diet is. Sticking mostly to foods that are low in sugar and fat [...]

Food Review- Nature’s Path Cereals

As if there weren’t enough things to worry about due to the recession, now experts are predicting we will pack on “recession pounds” as we trade in healthy fare for low cost junk food filled with empty calories.

With spring just around the corner, now is the time to think about how to avoid creating [...]

Taste of Home Ham ‘n’ Sausage Stromboli

I love all the Taste of Home magazines! I have piles of them on my cookbook shelf because I can’t bring myself to recycle them. I just love flipping through them looking at all the yummy-sounding recipes and mouthwatering photos! Thanks to Anjali at Krupp NYC, I have this delicious sounding recipe for Ham ‘n’ [...]

Four Foods on Friday 73

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Here are this week’s questions from Fun, Crafts and Recipes:

#1. Sarafina’s suggestion. How far would you be willing to travel to satisfy a food craving?

If I really, REALLY craved deep dish pizza, Chicago is about 3.5 hours away.  Otherwise, I can satisfy any of my usual food cravings by [...]