Oven Baked Chicken Nuggets
I know a thing or two about chicken nuggets as I have been making them for two decades with a recipe very similar to the one Sara Moulton contributed to The 150 Best American Recipes. Sara calls her version Garlicky Baked…
Category: Appetizers
Oven Baked Fries
One of our family favorites has always been our oven baked fries. My friend Mary first made these for me about 25 years ago—I had been so impressed to arrive at her house for lunch and find a basket of home…
Blue Cheese Dip
I haven’t posted many appetizers—I’ve always been a bit appetizer challenged. I am much more focused on side dishes, main dish and dessert! This holiday season, I tried three of Ina Garten’s appetizer recipes from her most recent cookbook, How Easy is That? Two…
Baked Artichoke Spinach Lusciousness
I remembered my friend Candace had swooned over a Warm Spinach and Artichoke dip she had ordered at Applebee’s recently, then I stumbled upon a recipe that I thought might be similar. And it was from one of my favorite recipe…
French Onion Soup
As a newlywed, and married to a man who owned a copy of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, French Onion Soup was one of the first things I learned how to make well—thank you, Julia Child—and one of the…
Soft Pretzel Bites
If Jett can make pretzel bites, so can you! Time to play in the kitchen again! I am not a newbie to homemade soft pretzels. My favorite bread machine cookbook Bread Machine Magic has a recipe for Special Ed-ible Pretzels on…
Cheddar Cheese Crackers
Look what I made for my grandson’s Pups and Trucks birthday party, cheddar dog bone crackers! Aren’t they adorable? I think the two-year-olds, and their parents, are really going to enjoy them 🙂 I used a small cookie cutter to cut the bone…
Chinese Chicken Salad
Chinese Chicken Salad: it’s crisp, tasty, and refreshing! My version is made with cabbage, two kinds, which hold up better than lettuce—lettuce is boring, and in almost every other salad—how many chances do you have to eat raw cabbage? Not…