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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 […]

Weeknight Broccoli Chicken Noodle Dinner Recipe

Chicken & Broccoli Pasta

This is a dish I’ve adapted from “Elisa Celli’s Italian Light Cooking” cookbook.  The original recipe was a pasta side dish using broccoli rabe (or rapini).  Not having that on hand, I substituted broccoli, and a few modifications later ended up with a very easy and FAST complete dinner.  My kids LOVE it, and ask for it […]

Chinese Marinated Beef for Stir Fry Recipe

Chinese Marinated Beef for Stir Fry

This recipe is used as a base for many of my Beef Stir fry recipes.  You can use as the base for most beef stir fry dishes like Beef with Broccoli, Beef Noodle Soup, etc. I usually make a couple pounds at a time and will then freeze half and then make several different stir […]

Simply Delicious Shrimp Recipe

Simply Delicious Shrimp by Dish Ditty

Sometimes simple is better.  In this case, this Simply Delicious Shrimp Recipe really is better than other complicated over seasoned shrimp recipes.  It can be an appetizer or main dish.  Easy to make for large crowds.  Can be served warm or hot.  Simply delicious.

Easy Weeknight Chicken Recipe

Easy Weeknight Chicken

I make this easy weeknight chicken recipe when I am out of time and just need something quick and easy that my whole family will eat.  Similar to my mom’s Smothered Chicken (recipe coming this fall), this chicken has a delicious rich flavor and is super easy to make any night of the week.

Homemade Oreo Cookie Crust Recipe

Oreo Cookie Crust

Sure, you can buy the crusts, and that’s fine, but sometimes you need to make something a bit bigger, or a different shape, or you just want to make it yourself. The Oreo crust is no-bake and super easy, there really is no reason to buy it. Recipe Source: Kraft Foods Website

Quick Flat Bread Recipe

Quick Flat Bread

This Quick Flat Bread Recipe has only 4 ingredients and can be made in a matter of minutes. Great with Hummus or for a warm sandwich. Tastes a lot like Indian Naan without all the work. I was in an Indian food kick several years back and was making Samosas (ooh, I’ll have to make […]