'Summer'

Everyone loves themed cupcakes for special events and holidays….atleast I do but I have a few simple ideas to make cupcakes even more festive and cute for any occasion.
1. Instead of baking cupcakes like any other individual, you can put the batter in cake cones and bake them on a cookie sheet. These cupcakes are [more...]

A walk down through the county fair is not for the faint of heart or weight watcher. Everything is battered and deep-friend — Oreos, Ho-Ho’s, Snickers, Milky Way, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups…even Pepsi.
But this year at the Great Indiana State Fair, all those deep-fried goodies are also free of trans fat.
This is practically unheard [more...]

Summer without barbeque is unthinkable. Summer without wine is boring. Mix wine pairing and barbecue together, add some friends, and you’ve got the ideal all-American get-together.
While cooking meat, poultry or fish over an open pit fire is prevalent in cultures around the world, America has made its own finger-lickin’ contribution to the gastronomical world with [more...]

Raise your hand if you’ve come home from work only to find a big box of home grown zucchini on your front porch or worse — crammed into the mailbox.
It’s that time of the year when zucchini is harvesting and people are going out of their mind with what to do with it. Not only [more...]

Some foods just go with summer. Watermelon comes to mind as does corn on the cob and of course, the rootbeer float.
I remember as a kid my dad would make rootbeer floats with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and we would sit out on the porch at night cooling off.
Since I no longer drink [more...]