Score!! Check out the ingredients in Jerry’s award winning chili!! Ground beef, sausage, beans, secret spices, tomatoes and other veggies magically come together with tons of tantalizing flavor in his incredible mouth-watering chili. It’s perfect for tailgating before football games or anywhere any time of year. Jerry adds. “It’s great right out of the pot,…
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Bananas for Bananas! Banana Streusel Coffee Cakes
These are ordinary banana muffins, or coffee cakes, made extraordinary with a crispy sugary cinnamon streusel topping that simply melts in your mouth. Wonderful with a “cuppa,” be it tea, coffee or milk, on an early weekend morning watching the leaves change their color. Also makes a delicious and nutritious after school or work snack….
Cinnamon Spice Kringel Beautiful Braided Bread: Recipe & Photo Tutorial
This lovely, traditional Finnish, spice bread is easy on the eyes and equally as pleasing to the palate. This beautiful kringel is perfect for a weekend morning breakfast or to make for friends during a quiet afternoon tea. The technique is really simple so please don’t become intimidated–it’s much easier to make than you think. Not…
Breakfast! It’s What’s for Dinner! Cottage Style Hash Browns & All the Trimmings
Does your busy schedule keep you from making hearty breakfasts? This scrumptious four-part feast will fit its way into your evening repertoire in a flash! Today’s recipe is for “Cottage Style Hash Browns” and the remaining trio can be whipped up while the potatoes are sauteing in the skillet. Talk about satisfying! Hash browns also…
Watermelon & Basil? Juniper Berries on Fish? Herbs & Spices: What Goes with What? Combinations to Make Your Feasts Flourish
Meat or fish? Check! Veggies? Check! Eggs? Check! Fruit & Rice? Check!! We buy meats and fish that are the freshest of fresh, fruits and vegetables so ripe they are almost falling off of the vine. We have all of the proper ingredients and components for a great meal, but something is just missing. Yes, wise…
I Want One! #8 of 2014’s Top Rated Kitchen Gadgets “KRUPS F20342 Electric Spice and Coffee Grinder with Stainless Steel Blades”
Would you like all of your meticulously-prepared, homemade dishes to taste their very best? Ever wonder how restaurants make their dishes pack a punch? First, ask yourself “how old are the spices in my pantry?” If your answer is “more than 6 months” then they are far beyond the flavor expiration date, my friend!…
Lebanese Hushwee—The Simplicity of Spices
Cinnamon in a savory dish? Yes, absolutely! The marriage of flavors in this delectable dish compliment each other in deliciously unimaginable ways. I was taught this simple and scrumptious dish by my eldest sister whose recipe was passed down by her Lebanese mother in law. It soon became a household favorite, even in our Italian household,…
Have You Ever Tasted Sound? Here’s Your Chance! “The Sound of Taste”
This stunning display of “art meets food” was created as a commercial for Schwartz Flavour Shots, a pre-packaged soup and meal company out of the United Kingdom, who boasts “Flavour Shots—the little pots with big flavour.” This slow-motion video dubbed “The Sound of Taste” is a stunning arrangement of cinematography and pyrotechnics that creates what…
Simplicity At Its Finest: Guanajuato, Mexico & Una Galleta
Nestled in the mountains of the Sierra de Guanajuato lies the striking, colorful majestic city of Guanajuato, Mexico. The city was founded in 1554 next to one of the richest silver mining areas of Mexico. The 16th-century mining boom led to the construction of beautiful haciendas and fine colonial buildings. Guanajuato streets and many multicolored…
Spices: The Mystical Magic Potions, Top 10 Kitchen Essentials & More!
If the appearance of spices were to reflect their real importance in the history of the world, the bottles of spices would be filled with brilliant sparkling substances such as diamonds, rubies, emeralds and gold. When you open each bottle, a whiff of vibrantly colored, mystically fragrant, magical smoke would slowly billow softly throughout the…
Once Upon a Spice 