September 2012

Jalapeño Cheddar Biscuits

My garden is raining peppers, and I can’t keep up. I’ve dried, pickled, canned and now I am baking them up as fast as I can. This biscuit is perfect to accompany a soup, stew or in my case chili. Its Football season and chili will be flowing on Sundays. This biscuit rocks with a […]

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Salted Whiskey Caramels

I saw this little recipe on So, How’s It Taste when I was looking for a fall Caramel recipe, gave it a try and had to share. I think these would make a great hostess gift over the holidays! My only piece of advice after making caramel with many failures, buy a candy thermometer! It […]

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Feeding the Bees

In the spring before the flowers start to open and in the fall when the flowers are closing for the season, you have to feed your bees. Yep, I feed my bees, Liz feeds her bees. If you are a beekeeper most likely this time of year you have purchased a big bag of sugar […]

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Making a Herb Swag

A week ago I went with my friends Janet and Nicole to a evening class where you were taught by a local florist in their shop how to make arrangements while incorporate fruits and vegetables. We had a great time, learned a few tricks and afterwards we went and celebrated our beautiful creations over sushi […]

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Broccoli Feta Fritters

We eat a lot of Broccoli in our house. Jacob has been complaining about it, so I tried to come up with a new way to feed it to him without him feeling like his mom is making him eat his Broccoli. Broccoli is such a nutritional superstar that I want to make sure we […]

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Flinstone Pushup Martini

There is a local gourmet pizzeria that is in downtown Cincinnati that Jim and I head to sometimes on Friday night. It’s in an area of downtown that until recently you didn’t want to head to unless you were looking for trouble, but thankfully investors have started putting money into the area and a group […]