Caramel Corn

Someone every Christmas would send my grandma one of those big tubs of popcorn, the variety pack with plain, cheezy, and caramel corn. The caramel was my favorite (duh, isn’t it everyone’s?) with the cheezy corn coming in second. Poor plain popcorn would get fed to the birds more often than not. I mean, especially…

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Potato Skins! (or “Scalped” Potatoes)

Stuffed potato skins … a.k.a … wait for it … Scalped Potatoes! Alright, I know this was a stretch (believe me, I KNOW!) but “Scalped Potato Skins”? I mean, come on, how’m I gonna NOT make that pun? You know me. You know what I’m like*. *I’m like that person who can’t stop making puns,…

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Quesadillas

Don’t laugh. I know this is, like, Baby-Cooking 101 — whoa … not like that — but it’s very important to me that you not forget about quesadillas! They are a crucial part of my life and have been for many years. Second only to grilled cheese sandwiches (and on occasion, they have traded places)…

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Shrimp Corn Dogs

I wish I could take credit for this most excellent idea, but alas, I first heard of these from a restaurant in town called Moonshine Grill. It’s a great place and they make these amazing shrimp corn dogsĀ that go really, really super-great with beer and cocktails. Already requests have begun coming in from viewers for…

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Fried Plantains (Tostones!)

Plantains to me are a marvelous fruit. Over two weeks, they transform upon your countertop from immature and hard and green to ripe and black and soft and squish. When green, they are nearly as hard as a turnip and covered in leathery skin attached to the flesh on a cellular level as if by…

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Spicy Thai Kale Chips

So we’re doing this “Health Thing” for the month of August. No alcohol, no dairy, no sugar, no gluten. Good God almighty, what the hell are we thinking?! Actually, so far it’s pretty awesome. And that’s coming from a couple of booze hounds. The first three days, and I’m embarrassed to admit this, we had…

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French Onion Dip

Oh dear GAWD, is she ever gonna stop with the creamy treats?? That’s what I know you are saying to yourself right now. But check it. This creamy treat is almost free of fat! It’s made from yogurt! That also means it’s got beneficial bacteria innit and plus a lot of herbs and onions which…

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Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes in Skillet

Fried Green Tomatoes Recipe Video – scroll down for recipe We always had a little garden when I was growing up. Not like a farm, but just a little plot behind the house, down the hill a bit, under a giant cottonwood tree with a swing tied to its branches. I didn’t really have much…

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Egg Salad in Tomato Cups

Lookit how KEWT!!! It’s lil baby tomatoes stuffed with egg salad!!! They just look like li’l eggs hiding out in grass, don’t they? Or like li’l baskets full of goodies just hanging out on a lawn. Or like li’l juicy tomatoes filled with a dill and caper egg salad, which is actually what they are!!!…

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