Food & Drink

Four weeks ago or so I did a YouTube Live video (every other Wednesday at 11am eastern time) showing how I make the best chocolate chip cookies. I ended up…

Last week sometime, Melek surprised me as I was cooking us dinner by doing a Facebook live video (follow me so you can catch all the action). I was cooking…

As many of you know, I enjoy cooking. In fact, I also like to watch some of the many cooking shows out there. Chopped is a favorite and so is…

That is easy…..peanut butter! How could it not be? It has protein, is cheap, and easy to eat. All you have to do is spread it on bread or an…

Last week’s charter brought a bag of candied pecans for each of us and told me to be careful, because they are addictive. I was like ok what ever, since…

So I have had this recipe for Raspberry Pork Chops for almost 15 years. It calls for sauteing frozen raspberries in butter with a diced granny smith apple and spooning…

I saw a recipe on Facebook for Texas Roadhouse butter, which is a steak house restaurant that has wonderful sweet and savory butter for their rolls. I decided to try…

The last recipe my Christmas charter let me try was a prosciutto wrapped fish that was wonderful. You can take any firm white fish and season it with pepper and…

I am very proud to be know for my bread that I make for lunch sandwiches, but I finally tried pan fried pitas and they had lots of yummy herb…

My Christmas guest were a lot of fun, because they let me experiment on them with new recipes. There were some great ones like last weeks spinach soup and some…

I had a recipe I had never tried from a cruiser  cookbook I was giving four years ago. It was called “Better Than Sex Bonbons”! Well this last charter I…

In a few days I will be publishing the  January newsletter and a new feature I started last month is a “Recipe of the Month” and this month it is…

Every now and then I find a copy of Food & Wine or similar magazine and while flipping through the pages I will find a recipe that perks my interest….

Since today is Thanksgiving I thought I would share a post about food. My friend Kris gave me a Buffalo Chicken Dip recipe and it is awesome. You can serve…

When I was on the Hurtigruten cruise up the west coast of Norway they served a yummy multi layer cake called a daim cake. It is a traditional cake for…

This is a recipe I found that sounded ok, but once I was done experimenting and modifying it the taste blew me and my friends away. It was so flavorful…

So my mom is know for her awesome chocolate chip cookies and I thought I would share the recipe with you here. [Guiding Light Mom – I have censored this…

So I made this simple appetizer this last charter and it turned out to be my guest favorite one. All I did was saute a sliced pepper (seeds removed) and…

A guest made this one time and I loved it. First make crepes (I simply use the recipe out of my Betty Crocker cookbook). Second I make a mixture of…

So I found another addition to the Guiding Light menu. This one combines shrimp (or crab meat), pineapple, cucumber, celery, and green onion. I mixed this with a citrus dressing…

A month ago or so I had a guest give me a recipe for a wine cake. I made it and thought it was good, but you know me and…

If my guest want I make a drink of the day, which we all enjoy around 5:30. I choose this time because the day’s activities are winding down, we are…

This salad is a great combo of bland pasta, bitter cabbage, and creamy cheese. You combine cooked couscous with radicchio and feta. Mix with some olive oil, white wine vinegar,…

Last fall my cousin took me out to dinner and she order a pear infused ravioli, which was amazing. The next night I had a beautiful date coming over, so…

This is a tasty way to enjoy fish. Bake the fish and top with the chutney, which includes fresh mango, golden raisins, cider vinegar, olive oil, and cinnamon.

One of the things I am know for is my homemade bread, where I make it from scratch, with yeast, and without a bread maker (some of the questions I…

Whenever I am in Colorado I spend a few days with cousin. Well this year they took me to their favorite restaurant and she ordered a pear infused balsamic pasta…

  On Tuesday I told you about the main course Shane tried out now let me tell you about the dessert. It appeared to be an innocuous chocolate truffle, but I…

Shane used me as a test subject as he tried out a recipe for a grilled pork chop dish.  The meat was cooked to perfection and the flavor provided a rich medley…

This was a good layered cake. I baked two cakes in 8 inch round pans with crushed walnuts and grated orange baked into it. Between these and on top I…

Another dessert sounds like a winner. This one is a s’mores pizza. I mixed flour, yeast, and graham cracker crumbs to form the dough. On top of this I smeared…

This is a traditional flat bread served in Italy (I actually made this before my trip there 🙂 ). After it had risen a bit I coated it with olive…

Another experiment during this offseason was chicken mango tacos. They were good, but I think having them as fish tacos would be even better. I took rotisserie chicken, shredded it,…