The creative cooking escape of a busy mama in Army Boots.
If you spend enough time in the kitchen, you can cook pretty much any recipe that someone brings you. You get used to cooking off scribbled instructions, yelled adjustments, and intuition. And a lot of other random things. You learn that "all day" means that if there are three fillets "all day," there are three [...]
Today I need a little therapy. And blogging is kind of like therapy in a lot of ways. This time, I really need to talk about the love/hate relationship I have with Oreo cookies. Mostly because I can’t even prove that the love I have for them is real. High-fat high-sugar foods – like Oreos [...]
Jump to Recipe! I love tinkering with pizza recipes. Not so much the dough. I have one way I make dough - and I really need to share that here at some point. But you figure out your dough when it comes to pizza, and the rest is easy. It's like being able to continually [...]
It's hard to deny that bacon is great on it's own, without embellishments. And it's probably a special kind of heresy to suggest that you can improve on bacon. But you can. You can. Because while great ingredients stand on their own, sometimes there is a combination of other ingredients that enhance their flavor and make [...]
Okay, maybe I spoke too soon about that spring weather coming in. This week lulled us into a false sense of security. Mid-40s all week until yesterday, and then the cold set in. But that's how it goes. Winter is that angry friend who goes to the door again and again and keeps turning back, [...]
When it comes to bread, I'm picky. I hate buying bread from the store. Okay, let's be real, I still buy bread, but there are only a few brands I'll buy without choking at the price or looking with dread at the long list of ingredients that include a lot of sugar and a lot of [...]
I received a copious amount of brown sugar from Dixie Crystals as part of the Third Annual Good Cookies Food Bloggers' Valentine's Event. The decision to craft a recipe around their generous gift, however, was my own. It's a terrific day to talk about dessert! Wait - isn't every day a good day to talk [...]
