Italian-Style Smoky Garlic Bean Dip Recipe and Saucy Mama Giveaway!
Posted: February 28, 2012 Filed under: Contests, Food, Giveaways, Recipes | Tags: appetizer, basil, beans, cannelli beans, challenge, cheese, cooking, easy, foodblog, garlic, garlic mustard, giveaway, healthy, italian, low-cal, mustard, olive oil, parmesan, recipe, roasted pepper, roasted red peppers, skinny mama, snack, tomato, vegetables 23 Comments »***** Voting is open for this contest. Please follow this link and click “Vote” when you get there! It just takes one click!!*****
If you see me walking under any ladders, opening any umbrellas indoors, crossing paths with any black cats, or breaking any mirrors, stop me. Please.
I really don’t care how you do it. Call out my name. Yell and scream at me. Tackle me, even. Just make sure you stop me.
Because I am having quite the streak of good luck lately… and I could get used it.
What am I talking about, you ask?
Well, first there was the Soup Challenge, for which you all so kindly voted my Chickpea Minestrone into second place, and now I have my chance to compete for the judges in two weeks.
Then there was the interview on Flavorful World, where Anthony had such wonderful, glowing things to say about Food for Thought that I was blushing reading it!
And then yesterday I found out that had I won the internal poll of the Marx Foods East Meets Delicious contest for my Green Bean “Fries” and Asian Veggie Burgers!
I’m on a roll baby! I think a trip to Vegas another contest entry is in order!
As luck would have it (heh) Saucy Mama is hosting the Skinny Mama Cooking with Mustard contest right now. And I’m a contestant ;)
For this challenge, bloggers are charged with creating a diet-friendly, quick, easy-to-recreate recipe using at least one of the Saucy Mama Mustards. They sent us a variety of mustards, including Saucy Mama Tarragon Lemon Mustard, Dijon Mustard, Champagne Honey Mustard, Chipotle Mustard, Smoky Garlic Mustard, and Suzie’s Yellow Mustard.
I decided to make my very own “100 calorie pack” of Italian-Style Smoky Garlic Bean Dip using – you guessed it – the Saucy Mama Smoky Garlic Mustard!
Green Bean “Fries” and Asian Veggie Burgers with Star Fruit Relish
Posted: February 19, 2012 Filed under: Contests, Food, Recipes | Tags: adzuki beans, american, asian, beans, brown sugar, cayenne, cooking, eggs, flour, foodblog, fries, garlic, green beans, greenbeans, marx foods, millet, mochi rice, mushrooms, onion, orange, recipe, relish, rice, rice vinegar, scallions, sesame oil, soy sauce, star fruit, sticky rice, string beans, veggie burger, zucchini 29 Comments »
Is there anything more quintessentially American than a burger and fries?
Think about it. I bet you can’t name one thing.
Ok, well maybe life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and all that jazz…. Oh yeah, and jazz. And baseball. Definitely baseball.
Let me rephrase.
Is there any meal more quintessentially American than a burger and fries?
Nope. Nothing. I’m glad we agree.
So when it came time for me to come up with a meal for the Marx Foods East Meets Delicious Recipe Contest, it only seemed fitting to embrace the “east meets west” theme by incorporating the markedly Asian ingredients into the ultimate American meal.
My mission, if I chose to accept it: create two original recipes using at least four of the samples provided by Marx Foods (samples included adzuki beans, maitake mushrooms, mochi rice, dried star fruit, organic millet, hijiki.). The recipes must be for one appetizer and one main course.
Endive and Bulgur Salad With Poached Eggs
Posted: February 16, 2012 Filed under: Food, Recipes | Tags: balsamic vinegar, bulgur, cooking, easy, egg, endive, foodblog, garlic, mushroom, olive oil, parmesan, pepper, poach, recipe, salad, scallion 12 Comments »
Now, I’m not one to brag.
Ahem. Please, no comments from the peanut gallery.
As I was saying. I’m not one to brag. But this year I had not one. But two. Yes, two Valentines.
The first, of course, was my wonderful fiancé, Jake. He treated me to a delicious pre-Vday brunch at Norma’s at Le Parker Meridien on Sunday, and surprised me with beautiful pale pink roses on Valentine’s Day itself! I certainly am a lucky girl ;)
(Side note: anyone looking for brunch in the NYC area, I highly recommend Norma’s.)
And my second Valentine was California Vegetable Specialties!
Ok. I know that’s not a person, per se, but I still count it. After all, they did send me a Valentine! A beautiful bouquet, in fact. Of endives!
Now anyone that knows me knows that I love presents. Especially surprise ones. And especially ones related to food.
So when the box unexpectedly arrived at my office, full of beautiful, fresh endives arranged in a charming bouquet? Well, let’s just say it was love at first sight.
I knew the only way to truly honor my new Valentine was to make something delicious out of the colorful veggies.
So I searched high and low, and finally found the perfect recipe to showcase the beauties in all their glory.
Double Stuf Oreo-Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
Posted: February 13, 2012 Filed under: Food, Recipes | Tags: baking, brown sugar, butter, chocolate, chocolate chop, cookie, cookies, cooking, dessert, eggs, flour, foodblog, oreo, oreos, recipe, salt, shoprite, sugar, vanilla 12 Comments »
Can Double Stuf Oreo Cookies get any more outrageously over the top and delicious than they already are? I’ll give you a hint: YES.
Check out my latest post on ShopRite’s Potluck Blog for the recipe for these Double Stuf Oreo-Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Homemade Soft Pretzels with Jarlsberg Dip
Posted: February 6, 2012 Filed under: Events, Food, Giveaways, Recipes | Tags: appetizer, baking, butter, cheese, cooking, dip, egg, flour, foodblog, giveaway, oil, party, pretzel, salt, snack, sugar, yeast 26 Comments »
Ok, people. Listen up. I am about to give you a gift.
A huge gift.
What I am about to give you. Is an excuse. To eat. CHEESE.
That’s right. Cheese.
Lots and lots of cheese. An entire month’s worth of excuses, in fact. For cheese.
I mean, not that anyone should need an excuse to eat cheese other than the fact that it’s ah-mazing. But if you do, here it is: Kitchen Play’s ”29 Ways to Leap into Jarlsberg Dip!“
Over the course of this month, 29 bloggers are giving you serving suggestions, recipes, and fun ways to enjoy the new Jarlsberg Original Cheese Dip. There have already been five great suggestions (well, hello, Jarlsberg Creamed Spinach). And, now, here’s your sixth:
Use it as a dip for homemade soft pretzels!
Fact: big, chewy pretzels are the perfect vehicle to get this delicious cheesy dip delivered straight to your face.
