Nov 17
Some mornings you wake up after having friends over and there’s more air in the Glenlivet bottle than scotch. Our natural tendency is to go for heavily fried foods, usually greasy, with a lot of fat. However, in the back of our minds, we also know that comfort food is rarely our best choice if …
Feb 09
I’m trying to incorporate more fish into my diet. So far, through diet and exercise, I’ve dropped 9 pounds in 2012, and I credit cooking more fish for a lot of that. Primarily, I do tilapia and haddock, but I recently made some wonderful yellowfin tuna with a Cajun rub, and served it with sautéed …
Feb 07
As part of my plan to improve my eating and lose my belly fat, I’ve started eating Bob’s Red Mill Steel Cut Oats for breakfast daily. It’s the kind of thing that prepared properly you will really love. In our case, we find a small pat of butter, some brown sugar and cinnamon really do …
Feb 05
Recipe: Crispy Cinnamon Rolls with Puff Pastry Summary: Crispy crunchy fluffy cinnamon rolls Ingredients Puff Pastry Butter Cinnamon Brown Sugar Preparation time: 15 minute(s) Cooking time: 15 minute(s) Number of servings (yield): 4 My rating 5 stars: ????? 1 review(s) Copyright © EclecticFoodie.com. Recipe by by Eclectic Foodie. Microformatting by hRecipe. This morning we decided …
Jan 05
Nothing screams “Holidays” like a Golden Rum Cake. A piece of this cake with some Eggnog and you have a slice of heaven. This is a fairly easy recipe. The hardest part for me was “tasting” the rum to make sure it was “fresh” enough for the recipe. I highly recommend this practice to ensure …
Nov 24
This fantastic recipe was given to me by a dear friend. They are an enormous family of Italians. She said it was her mothers recipe so I can only imagine how old it really is. My friend did confess that she updated it a little due to the convenience of bottled and jarred ingredients. There …
Nov 21
This is one of those recipe’s that you thank yourself for keeping. My grandma taught me how to make this 35 years ago, and she said her mother taught her. That would make this recipe at least 60 to 70 years old. It is the best Rice Pudding on the planet. I know you think …
Nov 18
I consider myself to be a fairly good cook, but baking is a real challenge for me. I usually buy boxed goods and that’s all I have to do is add water, some eggs, beat it up and pop it in oven. Simple. True baking is in my opinion an art form. And it’s a …
Nov 14
Courtesy of our head chef at www.thatgirlguide.com: Here is my simple recipe for Pumpkin pancakes. Mix enough pancake batter for 4 servings (and dare I say that it is fine to use a mix) Add: 15 oz. can of pumpkin, one teaspoon of cinnamon, 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of freshly grated nutmeg, 1 tablespoon of pure …
