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Over the past couple Months, Dana and I have been traveling a lot. We have found ourselves in a ton of airports. While we were waiting for one of our many delays, we stumbled upon one vendor selling Tres Leches cake. It was awesome! Ever since that day, I have been craving Tres Leches Cake….
Since moving to Richmond Dana and I have been trying out all of the pizza places. We have been trying to see which one was the best. We are still testing them out but the one thing that they all have in common is garlic knots. Basically a knot of pizza dough baked, and then…
I was looking through my pantry to determine what I had available for a cocktail. After a few tries I came up with the most delicious cocktail to date. I called it the Knock Out Punch. Reasoning: It was a tasty punch, contained a nice helping of alcohol and you could not taste it at…
I was starving for a French Dip sandwich the other day. Â So I jumped head first into my collection of cook books to see what a French Dip sandwhich consisted of. Â I wanted to get the herbs right. Â Who knew but the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook had a quick and easy recipe for it….
The other day I was rummaging through my kitchen looking for a nice cocktail to make. I found some bourbon, apple juice and ginger ale. I don’t know about you but it sounded like a good time to me. I combined the ingredients and made a cocktail. It had a nice little zip from the…
Last month I got married and one of our gifts was a nespresso espresso maker. Quite honestly, one of the best money saving items in the house. I can make hot and fresh mochas, lattes and espresso shots for the fraction of the cost. Plus, it actually makes them right so they taste good. After…
It has been really nice down here in Richmond. So I cleaned the grill out last week and it is officially grilling season. I wanted to make something new but was’t quite sure. I also did not want to have to go to the store. So using what I had in the kitchen, I created…
Ever since I got my first smoker, I have been smoking everything but turkey. Â I never had the guts to try to smoke a Turkey for Thanksgiving. Â Thanksgiving is one of those meals that you cannot screw up. Â However, after this year of competitions and gaining more experience with my smoker, I wanted to try…
The past two weeks has been a little rough. I had my tonsils taken out and I have been unable to get out of bed let alone cook. However, there were a few good days in which I was able to make a few little things for my caretakers. My Mom came to visit to…
The other night I had a craving for chocolate chip cookies. The only problem was that I did not have any brown sugar. So I looked around and I had molasses. I use about 1 tbs molasses for every cup of granulated sugar to make my brown sugar alternative. It works great. Having solved that…
It is that time of the year. Yep, College Football. I was chatting with my friend Sean last week about football and he is the biggest Nebraska Cornhuskers fan around. He said that the unofficial drink for Cornhuskers football is the Elk Creek Water. While I am not the biggest Nebraska fan, I was intrigued by the…
My Dad has been asking for a few fish dishes. It is not that I don’t like cooking fish, it is just that closest fish monger that is any good is 25 minutes away. So this week, I took a trip to the market and decided to do a quick and easy fish dish. A…