Gnome de Plume

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I had leftover meat and not a whole lot of options. Well, when I was looking for a recipe, I remembere...

I don’t know about you, but I was never a big fan of succotash. For those of you lucky slobs who have never had the pleasure of eating it, s...

Summertime is just around the corner. As I mentioned last week, I will be grilling various types of meat accompanied with a salad on th...

I hate to confess this, but I might be sporadically posting my Foodie Fridays throughout the summer. There are a couple of reasons for this:...

A few weeks ago, the hubster took his “girls” to Flemings Steakhouse for a Valentine’s Day dinner. We had an exceptional meal as always, but...

This is a slightly different version from the one The Pioneer Woman posted on her Tasty Kitchen site. 1) I’m not a fan of chipotle peppers...

Again, I’ve taken a recipe and made it my own. The original of this recipe was from The Pioneer Woman’s blog, but I adapted this to Italian ...

There’s only one reason to like cold weather, and it comes under the category of SOUPS and STEWS. I had lentils. I had ham. I had three re...

True confessions here . . . I haven't been cooking much 'real' food recently. Oh, I cooked bunches over the holidays, but once t...

I know I have a few new people poking around the site--shoot, I sent you here! But when you looked up Green Monster, you probably got the bl...

Many moons ago (easily 40+ years), my Aunt Fan (Fanny Sue) and Aunt Mary (Mary Belle) would make this dish whenever someone visited them in...

I don’t really have a story about this recipe. I wanted a pumpkin bread recipe for the holidays. I searched on the Internet. And I found one...

This recipe has been in my files for many, many years. I think I picked it up during one of my previous Weight Watcher experiences. Trust me...

A long time ago (sometime after college), I picked up a Gold Medal flour cookbook. This is a wonderful go-to book for almost any type of rec...

Yes, I know it's not Friday, but instead, Saturday. I wanted to go ahead and post this easy fudge recipe in case anyone wanted to make i...

All-righty then! This recipe is originally from Bon Appetit magazine. I believe we made this recipe for Thanksgiving in 2010, AND again this...

This recipe has become a Thanksgiving tradition with my family, instead of sweet potato with marshmallows on top. Now, I can’t take credit f...

Yesterday I was busy making candy fillings . . . again. I made peppermint schnapps, Grand Marnier (this time with white chocolate), key lime...

This last week, I've been swamped with trying to figure out Saturday's presentation and doing ' stuff' . No, I have no idea ...

Last week, I picked up a rotisserie chicken. Most of them are pretty inexpensive, costing around five-six dollars. This is an awesome way to...