Vanilla Banana Crepes with Cinnamon Apple Pieces

While on a business call, this recipe came up. Since I have some TLS Vanilla on hand, it was the perfect start to a well developed recipe. Most of the time someone comes up with a recipe and you have to go to the market to buy all the ingredients. Well for me, this wasn’t…

Apple and Sweet Pepper Salsa

Have you ever been set to cook something you’d been thinking about all week and then changed your mind at the last minute. Well, that happened to me today. I was going to make a regular summer salsa, but thought, “summer is actually almost on its way out.” I was looking at the bowl of…

Happen Upons

Saturday, February 15, 2020, I decided to take a trip to Roslindale – after deciding to drop my daughter at a wine class, I decided to stay in town and experience a neighborhood I wasn’t familiar with. All I had to do is check my phone and ask for “farmer’s markets in the area.” There…

Avocado & Egg

Avocado (1/2 small) and one egg, mixed with avocado mayo, topped with flax, chia, and toasted sesame seeds. Flavors just salt and pepper. Additions, strawberries, sprouted seed crackers and walnuts.

Salmon with guacamole w/walnuts and spring salad

I went up to New Hampshire last weekend for a pizza party. I told my sister-in-law that I wasn’t eating bread. When I showed up she took salmon out of the oven. She didn’t know I didn’t like salmon! Well, I told her I would try it, and I did. It was fantastic. Not just…

I’m am so blessed to have such thoughtful people in my life. I was working and this guy, he brings in a bag – it’s heavy. I look in it ands its two jars of jam his wife made for me. I was all smiles and gave him a hug to give to his wife even though he was all sweaty from playing basketball. One of those moments you think about (giving a hug to a sweaty guy) and then you just do it because it’s the right thing to do.

I woke up and couldn’t stop thinking about the jam and which one I wanted to have on my toast, so I decided to have both. Beyond me why blueberries don’t smell However when I popped open the jar, the rich dark blue indigo color of the blueberry had my mouth watering – Then I…

Valentine’s Day!

How to say I love you with chocolate dipped strawberries. For the non-chocolate lover, say it with fresh fruit or fresh fruit and  cheese! Chocolate Dipped Strawberries!  One of my favorites; I like using chocolate morsels to melt my chocolate because they are already tempered.   I add a little butter when melting to give it a little…

Friendship Foods

This post has been on my mind for quite some time. My co-worker, colleague, most definitely friend – Kim Couture – She and her husband made me strawberry jam! The flavors, the texture, the just so sweet taste – everything about it is magnificent.  The strawberries are fresh.  The texture is pure indulgence – not chunky,…

Farmer’s Market Salad

Farmer’s Market Salad Bed of mixed greens Two tablespoons tabbouleh Two slices cooked beets (recipe to follow) Two grape leaves In addition, I added: One can of tuna mixed with one tablespoon of mayonnaise, salt & pepper to taste One hard boiled egg Two tablespoons of cottage cheese 5 shakes of red wine vinegar 5…

Thanksgiving! What’s on the menu?

I like the beginning of the fall season when the whether is cool, leaves are falling changing colors.  Birthdays, Halloween, and now Thanksgiving.  Thanksgiving with my husband’s family – it’s exciting, interesting, eventful, and a whole lot of food.  The table is set with soup, appetizers, antipasto, lasagna and turkey with all the fixings.  How could…