Food & Dining

  We’re always looking for easy and delicious ways to feed a crowd at our family reunions.  It’s just no fun being the person left cooking or cleaning up while everyone else is having fun. 

If you ask Uncle Richard for his root beer recipe he’ll just tell you to add a bag of sugar, root beer concentrate and water, but we have carefully watched him make his brew and we

This a very fresh and summery recipe to make. Great for those grilling days or just as a brunch quick recipe. Hope everyone enjoys eating and making some mango salsa for themselves! Mango and salsa might sound

Check out this easy recipe from smitten kitchen for kale chips!  All you need is kale,a little bit of olive oil and salt.  After you bake for 20 minutes in a 300 degree oven, the kale turns into chips!

We had dinner with some friends this past weekend and they served the best baked potatoes I have ever tasted. I convinced them to give me this simple but superb tasting recipe. It gets its name from Hasselbacken

If anyone has ever bought or made cookies and they turn hard or are harder than you want, then put the cookies and a couple slices of bread in a plastic bag, such as a zip lock bag, just so you can seal it. 

"Gone are the days of boring cooking shows. Try some fun road trips to find local flavors, big eating competitions, bizarre international foods, and humorous scientific cooking!"- from the page. Article

If you love making homemade milkshakes with your blender or if you have trouble finding ingredients that are healthy, this tip is for you. Sometimes we think of shakes as drinks from restaurants loaded with fat

Here's a quick and easy way to prepare meatloaf that my grandkids love. They can help prepare it and since the meatloaf is cooked in separate portions in a muffin pan, it takes

Take a look at this website if you haven't heard of it yet.  www.restaurant.com.  (Note restaurant is singular, not plural.)  You buy a gift certificate for far less than its face value, take