Perfect Cocktails was a total impulse buy. I was standing in the checkout line at TJ Maxx when I noticed this book’s bright cover. I opened it to find recipes for everything from traditional Manhattans and Bloody Marys to fruity martinis and tropical drinks. It also has glossy pages, pictures of every recipe and only [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2010’
Pesto Pizza with Fresh Vegetables
For almost as long as the husband and I have been together, we’ve made pizza from scratch on the weekends. Our first pizza was made in my tiny post-college apartment and baked on a cheap aluminum pizza pan from Big Lots. He used a crust recipe he found online. We topped it with canned sauce, [...]
Super Torta II Taco Truck
I have made it a personal goal to try every taco truck in the city. That, along with my sister’s wedding shower, will be my culinary project for the summer. I have no idea if I’ll succeed. But it certainly makes finding cheap, tasty and quick meals a lot more fun. I inadvertently started this [...]
Ginger Krinkles
By now, everyone knows that I think food should be attractive or, at least, colorful. I feel the same way about cookbooks. They should have lots of pretty, colorful pictures. So I was a happy baker when my aunt gave me a copy of Mary Engelbreit’s Cookies Cookbook. This book is a treasure trove of [...]
Fruit Salad & Key Lime Dip
This is one of those recipes that I originally had no intention of blogging. I mean, what is there to say about making fruit salad? Chop up some fruit and maybe mix a quick dip. Easy. However, tonight marks the second Thursday in a row that I’ve found myself in the kitchen making this. I [...]
