Greek Recipes

Cajun Week Day 4! It's day 4 of Cajun Week with Peter from Feed Your Soul Too and I. I wanted to let you guys in on a secret. I rarely if ever use my slow cooker. O.K. I do use it on the Holiday's to keep my collard green warm, but other than that...it sits in slow cooker jail most of the year. Until today...my friend Ashley at Center Cut Cook made the prettiest slow cooker pork chops I've ever seen. That was all the convincing I needed, to take her recipe and "creolize" it people!  I started off my making up a spice rub. Then I lightly floured the pork chops, and don't forget to season that flour. Next, I browned the pork chops in olive oil for about 2-3 minutes per side. Finally, I transferred the pork chop to the slow cooker and sauteed onions and peppers and poured that over the pork chops. After 7-8 hours on low, it was time to make that gravy people! I strained the broth from the slow cooker, then I added it to a saucepan, make a cornstarch slurry and ...

image provided by staples Today is another beautiful, albeit a very chilly day in the desert...it was 45 degrees earlier today...and yes people, it had me confused...lol. What I am not confused about is the Google Nexus 7 gift that the wonderful people at Staples sent me to try out. First, I will not tell a lie...I am addicted to technology, just as much as I am addicted to cheese! I look for a few things in my gadgets...they must be easy to use, have a clear screen with high resolution, ability to re-size my images on the screen, battery life, and GB.   I told you I was a technology addict. The Google Nexus 7 has all this and more. Look how clear the screen is and I love the fact that you can minimize or increase the photo size easily.  This is a food bloggers dream, no more carrying my laptop downstairs to cook. I just bring my Google Nexus 7 and I have everything I need at my fingertips... and look at all the goodies that are programmed into the Google Nexus 7. 1.2MP fr...

Cajun Week Day 3! Hey everyone, guess what, it's Days 3 of Cajun Week, and Peter from Feed Your Soul Too, and I are just getting warmed up! In honor of the last day to enter the Sucre Macaron Giveaway (entry below) , I decided to create something sweet today! I am taking my Southern Tea Cakes to a whole new level people! Yes...and it includes the use of Chocolate and Pecans...it's a southern thang! I am not sure if I informed you when I made my Lemon Glazed Teacakes a while back, how my teacakes came to be...well it all started with my mother! We had a teacake-off, and I won...yes, she can bake pretty much any and everything...but she couldn't understand why my teacakes were perfect...my words...not hers...lol. The secret people...yes it's a secret...use two kinds of sugar...and chill the dough...overnight if you have time. Then allow the dough to sit out on the counter for about 20 minutes before you roll it out...Oh...and the use of a biscuit cutter for that perfect...

Hello everyone! All two of you that might still be waiting for me to post again on the blog. I am so sorry for taking such an extended leave of absence – I feel terrible about neglecting this space, especially because my only excuse is that I've been busy with work. This would be completely legitimate if I was genuinely snowed under, but that hasn't been the case. I pretty much have the standard amount of work that anyone else has to deal with. I only have to look at dedicated bloggers like Veggie Mama who works and has two small children, and Liz over at I Spy Plum Pie who also works and posts almost every day, and I have to confess that my real problem is just laziness. I mean, it's not like I spend every waking hour working. I spend many waking hours just sitting around thinking about dumb stuff, procrastinating about the housework, and worrying about things that I can easily fix with just a little motivation. Blogging is something that I do enjoy, but like other thin...