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Rosemary Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Mushroom Wine Sauce

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Pork Tenderloin
What’s for dinner at your house? Not every meal at my house is gourmet, or taste like it took hours to prepare. Let’s be real. Sometimes it has to be quick and easy. What a celebration when those two opposing ideas meet!

Roxanne and I have been especially busy lately. We leave for Chicago to work the International Home and Housewares Show this week. In addition, in the last 2 or 3 weeks, we appeared on KSHB TV Kansas City Live (follow the link and you can get the recipe for Chipotle Chicken Tacos from our new book,)  did a newspaper interview and made a video of our cake mixes and taught 3 different cooking classes. We are grateful to have these opportunities to share more about our new book, The Newlywed Cookbook and our slow cooker cake mixes, and it is very exciting, but sometimes, dinner at home takes a back seat to what is going on. Do you ever feel that way? [Read more…]

Whiskey Sours

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Whiskey Sour
Whiskey, hmmm or is it bourbon? Whiskey has become the new buzz word in many food circles. Heck, I don’t even drink cocktails that often but during the holidays, I purchased whiskey and planned to celebrate all the “at home” time with a whiskey cocktail or bourbon on the rocks. Well, the best laid plans….never a drop of whiskey touched my lips.

Then it happened—the cold hit and caused a layer of dark days and gloom over all. Nights are spent in front of the fire and yes, over the weekend, it did involve whiskey. Before I digress too far, let’s define whiskey vs. bourbon.

All bourbon is whiskey but not all whiskey is bourbon. [Read more…]

Turtle Candies

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Turtles #1
My heart jumped a bit when I turned the calendar into February. Ah, yes…the month of love. It must be part of a divine plan that the month of love lands in the middle of cold and gray. A reason to celebrate is always welcomed in the midst of winter.

Love was truly a celebration during my college years but then my love boat crashed and quite frankly, I wasn’t sure I would ever celebrate Valentine’s day the same way again much less get my boat afloat. Alas, there is a happy ending. After many hits and misses, I met my true love on a commercial airplane (I gave up on boats!). Seat mates who became forever intertwined.

More than 24 years of love later, I thought I would see if my true love truly knew me well. I mentioned that Valentine’s Day was just around the corner and that I would give him the acronym for what my heart desired. [Read more…]