Colorful recipes with seasonal food
Everyone needs a good ham salad recipe in their life. A way to turn leftover ham or even canned ham into the best sandwich filling EVER. Our recipe has been a family favorite forever and is super simple to whip up. Got ten minutes? Then you have time to make this ridiculously easy and delicious…
Hold on to your hats garlic lovers. This burger is going to blow your mind! I used garlic grown in our nephew’s garden so it was SUPER garlic-y. If you are using mild garlic then I would recommend using more than the recipe calls for. After you eat one of these bad boys you should…
Sue and I eat a lot of sandwiches. Sandwiches are awesome. What is weird is that we haven’t shared a lot of sandwiches on our blog. We definitely need to fix that. I’m going to start right now by sharing one of our favorites. A Cuban sandwich. You can make this on normal bread but…
This week I’m sharing my entry, which came in third. I was pretty excited to come in third, we had a lot of fabulous entries for our pineapple and flour competition. Did it deserve a first place finish? Well…. I’m a bit biased so I’m going to say yeeeessssss. But, make it yourself and let…
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Back in January I found an incredible deal for airfare to St. Thomas so I went ahead and booked it along with four nights at the Marriott Frenchman’s Reef using my points. Even though the weather forecast the weeks up to the trip showed a lot of possible rain, it turned out to be beautiful…
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This past Labor Day I went on a road trip to Portland, ME with two of my favorite people in the world. I insisted that we go to Eventide Oyster Co. since I was still dreaming about their lobster rolls from my trip 2 years ago. This time the Hollandaise lobster roll had been replaced…
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The Dutch have definitely got the monopoly on fun food names. Stroopwafels? Speculoos? The only thing better than saying these things is eating them. You might know speculoos better as the cookie that goes into Trader Joe’s Cookie Butter or the Biscoff cookies you get on Delta flights. They’re kind of like gingerbread cookies but…
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You’d think grilled cheese would be an incredibly easy thing to make, but I still remember the first time I ever tried to make one (I think I was 12 or 13) I thought I could just put a piece of American cheese between two slices of bread and toast that in the toaster oven…
So you’ve probably heard about the ramen burger, the latest food craze to hit NYC. Well now you’ve heard of the ramen lobster roll. As my friend Mitchell said, “You’re getting kind of ridiculous, Joy.” (I’m pretty sure he meant that as a compliment.) I followed the instructions I found on-line for how to make…
