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Midwestern Cobb Salad

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Midwestern Cobb Salad

Please tell me it happens to you too! Do you ever get in a salad rut? Where the same ole same ole just won’t fit the bill anymore. Sometimes, the antidote to this problem can be as simple as presentation. Shake it up a bit and go ahead and add more ingredients than you normally would. Take a few extra minutes and fry some bacon. Then present the salad in an artistic manner, set the dinner table and stand back. The ohs and awhs from your family will delight and dinner will be exciting once again. [Read more…]

Buffalo Chicken Wrap

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Beauty of the Bistro
Lunch! Just the mention conjures up all kinds of emotions. Always on the look out for new lunch solutions, I was thrilled when I found the Beauty of the Bistro food truck and discovered a solution to most of my Wednesday lunches. Its the perfect anecdote for hump day. Read all about this perfect lunch spot at the blog I wrote for the Kansas City Star’s Kansas City Chow Town site here.

Ok, that solves the Wednesday dilemma but what about the other 6 days? I am oh-so-lucky that my spouse joins me many weekdays for lunch and my daughter attends a university model high school, so she is home for lunch 2 weekdays. [Read more…]

Chicken Tortilla Soup

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Chicken Tortilla Soup

I have a new life rule that I am adding to my list. Never, I repeat NEVER live in one spot for almost 20 years! The tremendous amount of “stuff” (and I use that word lightly as I can think of other words that would be more appropriate but not for my “G” rated writing style) that I have collected is mind boggling. I am determined to adhere to my new life rule no matter how hard!

After almost 10 months of plotting, planning, budgeting and dreaming we are preparing to move to our new home. We have packed, packed and then packed some more. There must be a light at the end of the tunnel. Countless car loads of “stuff” to charities and over 200 cookbooks donated to the library system must indicate that we are making progress. These are stressful times and stressful times call for one thing to soothe the soul…..soup. [Read more…]

Thanksgiving Turkey

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If I were to select the one cooking question that we are asked most often it would be, “how do you prepare your Thanksgiving turkey?”

While I have brined, roasted, smoked and deep fried with great results, my go-to-recipe for a fail-proof, moist turkey is to bake the turkey in a roasting bag. This is what I recommend to my friends who are more or less afraid to step in the kitchen and tackle Thanksgiving dinner. [Read more…]