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Slow Cooker Chicken Tacos
Printable version During the holidays, most of us attend multiple gatherings. Chances are at least one of those parties will be a potluck dinner. The first time I made a dish for a potluck was during my first Christmas living in New York City. My department at the Associated Press had a holiday gathering. I…
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Italian Meat Lovers Pizza
Printable version I was at the store recently and I noticed a package of salami in the cold meats section. In an instant I had a craving for a grinder that features salami, pepperoni and ceasar dressing from a local restaurant named Brevins. (I recreated the sandwich here last summer.) For some reason it occurred…
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Chocolate Coconut Candies
Printable version For three full weeks I have labored in the kitchen armed with a stack of recipes from my Aunt Suzy on a quest to make as many holiday treats as possible. It’s been a great learning experience because I don’t make many sweets or desserts. Last Saturday, I found myself drooling over a…
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Peanut and Toffee Clusters
Printable version This recipe is actually a modified recipe of my own from two years ago, it still qualifies as an Aunt Suzy Holiday Treat because it was adapted from a recipe of hers. The only change is the toffee bits, the original recipe calls for mini marshmallows. Two years ago I substituted the marshmallows…
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Homemade Thin Mints
Printable version This is one of the many recipes I have been making over the last two weeks that are straight from the archives of my Aunt Suzy. When I picked this recipe out of a pile of hand written cards I thought it would be super simple. Once I had assembled everything to begin…
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Salted Peanut Chews
Printable version This is the second of “Aunt Suzy’s Holiday Treats.” Like the first, it features a base made from a box of yellow cake mix. It would be easy to measure out all of the ingredients and mix them together, but the convenience of opening a box and being done with that part is…
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Cherry Coconut Pecan Squares
Printable version Recently I turned to one of my elders for some direction on holiday treats. I don’t make many deserts, so I thought the best way to learn was to seek the culinary expertise of my Aunt Suzy, a certified sweet treat Jedi. I made two visits to her kitchen where she allowed me…
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Spicy Black Beans and Rice
Printable version When I set out to make this dish I was looking to create a spicy side. The batch was large enough for an alternative use though – burrito filling. So I decided to present it as both. What I love most about this dish is how the rice absorbs the flavors. I have…
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A New Treat and the Journal Gazette
Printable version Monday afternoon, Diana Parker of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette stopped by my office kitchen to have a chat about my recipes and blog. After sharing some new treats with her and showing her the process of creating my information graphic recipes, she was on her way. I gave her some recipes to…
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Fresh Green Bean Casserole
Green bean casserole is one of my favorite Thanksgiving dishes. This year I went a little nutty and decided to make it from scratch. The fresh mushrooms are the biggest difference. Frozen or processed green beans are close in flavor to fresh picked and blanched, but the mushrooms in a can of Campbell’s Cream of…
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