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Pesto Pasta Salad Recipe

Pesto Pasta Salad

Need a change from boring old macaroni salad?  Try this Pesto Pasta Salad Recipe for a change of pace. Great for pot lucks or BBQ’s and can be made up to 2 days ahead.  Perfect for a holiday brunch.

Chinese Chicken with Tofu Recipe

Chicken with Tofu

A nice healthy weeknight dinner that you can have without going to a Chinese Restaurant.  Try making this Chinese Chicken with Tofu Recipe tonight for your family.  

Sweet & Sour Chicken Recipe

Sweet & Sour Chicken

A Chinese favorite, this Sweet & Sour Chicken is less greasy but twice as delicious as ones you’ll find at most Chinese restaurants. I am not fond of the deep fried chicken or pork overloaded with sweet sticky sauce. This recipe has some oil, but not nearly as much as you’d get at most restaurants. […]

Make a Sunday Dinner Tradition

Sunday Dinner Food Buffet

As you read my recipe introductions, you’ll notice a common theme: Family. I come from a large family, with 3 brothers and 2 sisters making us 3 boys and 3 girls total.  Yes, like the Brady Bunch. 🙂 With such a large family, it can be difficult to keep up.  One of the many things […]

Cherri’s Tuna on Toast Recipe

Cherri's Tuna on Toast

My mom made this for us on Fridays during lent and it is still one of my favorites to this day. Quicker than tuna casserole and great for 2 people or 10 people. I’m not sure, where the recipe came from.  When I asked my dad, he said ‘As far as I know it was […]

Chinese Fried Wontons Recipe

Chinese Fried Wontons

This is a basic recipe for Chinese Wontons.  This recipe can be used as Fried Wontons, steamed wontons, or wonton soup.  If you feel like being adventurous and have an hour, try making them yourself.  They are a fun way to involve the whole family.  Give everyone the chance to wrap up their wontons however they […]

Pineapple Sweet & Sour Dipping Sauce Recipe

Pineapple Dipping sauce

This is pumped up version of Chinese Sweet & Sour Sauce. Yummy pineapple and brown sugar turn regular sweet & sour sauce into something special. Perfect with fried wontons, egg rolls or even use in your Sweet & Sour Pork.  You’ll never need to buy Sweet & Sour Sauce again.

Sweet & Sour Sauce Recipe

Sweet & Sour Sauce

You can use this in your Sweet & Sour Pork/Chicken.  Or, use it as a dipping sauce for your appetizers like Fried Won Tons.

Grandma’s Bread Pancakes Recipe

Grandma's Bread Pancakes

Pancake mix? No way!  Use this simple recipe which will give you delicious pancakes every time with ingredients you most likely already have.  No need for Bisquick, Aunt Jemima, or Krusteaz. You can make the perfect pancake every time. This recipe was handed down from my Grandma to my Dad.  He is now 83, and […]

Chinese Stir Fried Snow Peas Recipe

Chinese Stir Fried Snow Peas

This is just one of those dishes that is too easy to make but really needs to be written down.  Most people try to over do it with vegetables, but this dish lets the snow peas stay the star.  No need for anything fancy, just fresh, bright and delicious.

A Food Blogger’s Blog Post

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This is one of those posts that you can just skim by, no worries. I won’t be offended. I just feel like writing a few of my thoughts on what I’ve learned, where I’ve been, and how I’ve changed over the last several months since I started this ‘blog’. “It’s a Blog? Really?” Let’s start […]

Chinese Chicken with Tofu Stir Fry Recipe

Chicken with Tofu

One of my favorite dishes served at Chinese Restaurants is Chicken with Tofu.  It is a seemingly simple dish, but is so flavorful and is not as heavy or greasy as other tofu dishes.  I’ve modeled this recipe on the best of the chicken and tofu dishes I’ve had.  And yes, it looks like a […]