Gutsy Cook April Recipe line up is posted

April 05, 2013 by Monica in Cooking Club, Gutsy Cooks Club

And we start again - new cooks, new format and new recipes!

April’s Gutsy Cook Recipe line up is posted and ready to be cooked.

Want to join us?

Once a week we cook a recipe from the Gutsy Cook choosen cookbook/magazine recipe.

Since this is my month, we are cooking from 2 favorite cookbooks of mine - MAD Hungry and MAD Hungry Cravings from Lucinda Scala Quinn. You guys remember these luscious Braised Short Ribs

They have become our go to short rib recipe.

We are big fans of Mrs. Scala Quinn around the M+P house. So I have high hopes for the choosen recipes, my kitchen will be hopping the next 4 weeks.

Tomato Rice Salad Stack in celebration of Florida Tomato Month

April 02, 2013 by Monica in Appletizers & Snacks, Entertaining, Quick Meal, Rice, Salad, Sponsor

A couple of weeks ago I was approached by a representative from the Florida Tomato Committee in order to participate in their blogger outreach program. The Committee funds research and development projects and marketing promotions that focus on maximizing Florida tomato movement, including consumer and marketing research and customized marketing programs.

In celebration of Fresh Florida tomato Month in April, they were looking for blogger to develop an original recipe celebrating the Florida tomato.

Pan de Mej [Pani de Mie] Sweet corn buns

March 25, 2013 by Monica in Baking, Desserts, Family Cookbook

This past weekend I stayed at home and decided Sunday my oven was going to go into overtime. I had the bug to be in the kitchen and do some major cooking. And when our big baby – Rufus (the dog) started to bark at 7:00am to be let out, I took that as a sign that I needed to put on the apron and get to work.

I started by fixing some baby zucchinis (more on that at a later post) then moved over to do some potatoes that turned into a hot pocket (yeah I going to share that one too). But, after all that savory cooking I knew I needed to end the day in a sweet note.