For the Love of Food

Last week I blogged about the lactose-free ricotta cheese that I made. And, today I’m finally getting around to showing you what I did with it!

I made these zucchini rolls for dinner for us and a friend and they were a big hit. I love making appetizers for dinner some times – especially when it’s really hot outside. They are pretty simple and tasty.

At some point I ran out of ricotta and substituted with feta cheese – but it is way too salty for a dish like this in comparison to the ricotta. Continue Reading »

All that talk of making beer yesterday made me hungry! And, nothing like some delicious southern food to satisfy our hunger – I tend to miss being home in the summer and this really hits the spot.

My husband put this wonderful meal together for us last week.  He found the hush puppies recipe here – we tweaked it a bit.  I did the cocktail sauce.  And, I am no lover of cocktail sauce, but I blew myself away with this sauce that I put together for my boys so much so that I ended up consuming half of it myself!

After the jump, you’ll find all three recipes: Continue Reading »

I know, I know, hops are not even the majority of what beer is made of, but I do grow hops in my garden so that we can brew our own beer.

Fun huh? When we finally have some, I’ll be sharing it with you!

Don’t they just look heavenly?

This is a fun recipe to make with your kids for a hot summer day.

So, what is an ice cherry?? An ice cherry is an ice cube shaped like a cherry with a stem.

They are pretty simple to make – the “complicated” part is finding an ice cube tray that fits what you need. I happened to have one lying around.

Here’s what you do: Continue Reading »

This month is the big 3 for Taste&Create and to celebrate everyone is blogging about a dessert on their partner’s blog.

I chose to blog about Cupcakes, Food and Pretty Lil Things (my partner), Chocolate Caramel Seduction Cupcakes. And, although mine don’t look as awesome as hers, they sure did taste sooooo very deliciously sweet.

This is how good they were: Continue Reading »

We don’t use ricotta cheese very often, and when we do we go to our local Italian store and get some.

That was a lot easier when our son was not lactose intolerant. A few days after this third birthday it showed-up. Now, we can find all sorts of lactose-free products in town, but definitely not ricotta cheese.

Luckily, ricotta cheese is extremely easy to make! Continue Reading »

Now, eggplant parmesan sandwiches are a lot more “trouble” to make than a ham and cheese sandwich, but they also taste that much better.

So, here’s to complicated sandwich making! Continue Reading »

So, 5 o’clock rolled around and I didn’t even realize it. Usually, we’re all sitting at the dinner table at that point and eating. But, since I had been preping my bathroom for painting that I was going to do the next day, I lost track of time. With everyone hungry, I had to think quickly.

We had tortillas from the night before when I made hummus, and my husband Googled “simple pizza sauce” and found a fantastic recipe, and the tortilla pizza was born.

They were a really big hit, and we’re made them a few times now and are in love with how quickly they are to make and how good they taste. Continue Reading »

As I mentioned in my last post, I have been quite busy in my garden the last few months, but it hasn’t always been weed-pulling, raking, and watering.

We have had some fun grilling every once in a while the last few months. This specific time we made ribs and grilled vegetable pockets. And, let me “warn” you – the pockets look boring and drab, but they explode with delicious flavor – and they are soooo easy to make!

For the ribs, I made one of my previous recipes and steamed them the night before – this is how they become nice and soft. The recipe calls for just seasoning it with salt and pepper, but next time I will use my dry rub to give it more flavor.

May recipes after the jump: Continue Reading »