Bon Appetit and where’s my steak to
go with it?
For the Bleu Cheese Dressing:
1/3 cups mayonnaise
3 tablespoons cup vinegar
1 tablespoon honey
1/3 cup dairy sour cream
1/4 cup milk
1 clove garlic, crushed
1/4 cup smoked blue cheese, crumbled
In a medium bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise, vinegar, honey, sour cream, milk and garlic until smooth. For a thicker dressing, omit the milk. Stir in the blue cheese crumbles. Serve immediately, or store in the fridge in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
For the Salad:
1 head Iceberg lettuce, well cleaned
Diced tomatoes
Chopped scallions
Candied Pecan Pieces
Bacon, crumbled
Cubed Avocado
Make sure your lettuce is very cold. Pull it from the fridge just before serving and work quickly to get it on the table still cold.
Remove the root end from the bottom of the head of lettuce. Slice the lettuce half, then into 4-6 wedges (depending on your preferred size).
Top with your favorite toppings and drizzle with homemade Smoky Bleu Cheese Dressing.
You can make your cupcakes unique just by using a few signature extras.
This recipe originated in 1855 and was popular back in the 60’s.
It is still one of my all time favorites even though I never had a taste for it growing up.
Here is a link to the highest ranked page of this blog with over 100,000 hits.
We love these cookies and remember you can do them with chocolate wafers too.
Chocolate Covered Oreos
Petite carafes are great for serving
individual portions of wine and look beautiful on the dinner table.
I’ve looked for the perfect one for well
over a year. Ended up that my local restaurant had one all along and sold it to
me last week. Just goes to prove that the neighborhood you live in offers the
simplest of solutions. Just ask your local chef.
Now…back to the hunt for my next
kitchen got-to-have!
Looking
A Lot Like Christmas
Frozen
Pizza
Wisma worked for over a year to
perfect this pizza recipe. It’s a lot like a flatbread and in this case with a
little tomato sauce and mozzarella. All ingredients are locally sourced.
Love it? You be the judge. I'm a huge fan of the white pizza/
Emile
Henry
Speaking of pizza, I bought a new
pizza stone. Did I need one? No. This was definitely a splurge…but worth it I
might add.
I was convinced that I needed one
after I had two pizza’s cooked on the stone at my neighbors and then went home
and cooked one on my old pizza stone. The difference in taste was astonishing.
French brand Emile Henry is made of Burgundy clay which evenly and slowly
distributes cooking heat to the center of the stone. The pizza is cooked evenly
and not even the edges were overdone.
Best
$49 I’ve spent lately …less my 10% cooking class discount and $25 gift
certificate, I was out of pocket $19.
Makes
a great gift for anyone that is a pizza lover like me.
Creative
Photos
Photo Sculptures are a fun way to
display your best-loved photos - especially in the kitchen.
I look at this one every day of my
son when he was young. It never fails to make me laugh and feel like he is
ready to jump out and give me a mega-hug when my recipes turn out less than perfect
the first time around.
He’s
been doing a lot of hugging lately.
Pillivuyt
When I
write about products, it’s on my own dime. I either like them or I don’t and no
one can pay me to think otherwise.
Centuries
of trend-setting designs has put Pillivuyt porcelains in my kitchen.
Try it
just once and you’ll be convinced that with great results in baking, this is
the only dish to use in the oven.
Goose
Island Vanilla Cream
Getting the best out of the vanilla
bean? I LOVED this soda….and I NEVER drink soda!
Pumpkin
Cheesecake
I’ve tried at least a half a dozen
recipes and not one was even close to Gerhard's version.
I know...lot's of whipped cream and light on the pumpkin.
Bon Appetit!
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