I am pretty sure I have told you all this before, but in my house we love Mexican food.  I’m talking about tacos, burritos, fajitas, enchiladas, and the spicier, the better.  It gets kind of tough to find new recipes to keep up for the overwhelming requests for Mexican feasts each night.  Fortunately, we do …

From 2011 I love when the New Year approaches for a number of reasons.  It’s wonderful to move forward and march on into another year with new goals, a longer list of achievements, and other things like that.  Another reason I get excited about the New Year are best of lists.  You know like the …

Chef Emeril Lagasse is a well known name not just in my home, but in homes all across the nation.  This guy has done it all when it comes to being a chef.  I mean he has restaurants, cookware, grills, numerous cookbooks, and he is even known for things like “BAM!” and “Kick it up …

You may have recently read about our tips for roasting the perfect Thanksgiving turkey this year, but there are also other ways for cooking that bird with full flavor that the entire family will love.  If you haven’t tried a deep fried turkey yet, you are missing out!  Whether you are a traditional holiday person …

Thanksgiving will be here just week after next, and in the USA nothing says Thanksgiving like an oven roasted turkey, which is the traditional centerpiece of the American thanksgiving meal.  We do this every year, so why do people continue to panic at the idea of cooking the perfect bird?  Who knows?  I can tell …

In my house my boyfriend eats pretty much whatever I make.  The only food issue we have is the fact that he has to have white bread in the house.  On top of loving white bread, he is a big fan of processed pastas and rice too.  Why is this a problem?  Well, I love …

Wow, I have been so busy.  The boyfriend and I are doing some small renovations to our kitchen, so I have been cheating a little bit as far as cooking is concerned.  No worries though, my friends, I am back.  Seriously I cannot wait for this weekend to get into my kitchen to cook and …

When you finally get your first place on your own, getting items for the kitchen may be the last thing on your mind.  But there are tools that should be found in every kitchen no matter the skill level when it comes to cooking.  Whenever you cook you will have to do prep work, so this is …

Since I love to cook it just makes sense that my boyfriend and I would stay in most nights for dinner.  When we first moved in together cooking for just the two of us was so difficult.  I would get frustrated over the fact that we would have so much food leftover and neither of …

A few months ago I made my first big cookware purchase.  You see I had been cooking with some fairly inexpensive cookware that I picked up at Target when I first moved out on my own.  Well, after looking into what I would need and the reviews, I decided to start out with the Calphalon – Simply …