Cooking With Love

Thread 3 grapes onto each cocktail pick and freeze until ready to serve, at least 2 hours. 12 seedless green grapes 1 large lemon, zested and halved Coarse Sugar 1 1/4 Cups White Grape Juice 3/4 Cup Vodka Ice In a shallow bowl, mix together lemon zest and coarse sugar. Moisten the rims of martini glass with the lemon. Dip the rim of the glass into the lemon sugar. Squeeze the juice from the lemon into a pitcher and add the grape juice and vodka. Fill a cocktail shaker with

One of my husband and I's favorite appetizers are these Heavenly Beef Jerky... It's an amazing twist on Thai food and American beef jerky that just melts in your mouth with flavor. What you need: 2 lbs of Steak (better quality the better the taste) 2 TBS ground coriander 3/4 TBS ground fennel 2 tsp white pepper 3 TBS crushed garlic 5 TBS fish sauce 5 TBS soy paste, 3 TBS soy sauce, 6 TBS palm sugar, 1 tsp sugar, 1 tsp salt, 1 TBS lemongrass. Mix all ingredients and massage in

When you're craving the spice and healthy at the same time but don't want to over indulge? My Buffalo Chicken Strips will meat your every desire! You can purchase the chicken strips already cut or feel free to cut your own with chicken breasts. To save time I like to purchase the strips. If you are a griller like me, you can go to the grill or use a grilling pan over your stove to get these amazing grill marks! It's a great way to caramelize your meat and keep those juices l

2 TBS Lime Juice 2 TBS Sugar 12 mint leaves 1/4 Cup Rum 4 TBS Club Soda Muddle the mint & sugar together and put in your glass, pour in lime juice, rum and top with club soda. Stir and serve over ice! If you want to mix it up you can add fruits like blue berry, strawberry, etc.. :)

Pre-heat oven to 350*F and prep your ingredients. 4 TBS Butter 2 TBS fresh minced garlic 2-3 Cups diced or shredded cooked chicken 4 Cups of cooked rice (I love wild rice) 1/4 Cup all purpose flour 1 tsp salt 1 tsp pepper 1/2 Cup White Wine 2 Cups Chicken Broth 2 Cups shredded cheddar cheese 1 TBS fresh thyme chopped or 2 tsp dried thyme Butter your dish, melt 4 TBS of butter in a medium sauce pan over medium-heat, stir in garlic and cook for 1 minute, whisk in flour, chopped

First start with marinating the chicken in a bowl with 1 cup of rice wine and soy sauce with 1 TBS of salt. Get out your dutch oven and use veggie oil about 2 inches in the pot (this will be about 6-8 Cups depending on the size of your dutch oven). Cut your chicken to the sizes you prefer and coat in 1 Cup of flour. Slowly put in the cooking oil and make sure it's bubbling when you put it in the oil so you know the oil is ready. If it's not bubbling when you put chicken in

2 cups "00" flour is the best though for a silkier dough. ¼ teaspoon salt 3 large eggs plus 5 egg yolks, beaten 1 TBS Olive Oil Flour for dusting to not let it stick together and rolling out. Put flour and salt ion a counter and create a mound with a VERY big well in the middle. Add eggs and yolks, and mix with hands or wooden fork for a minute until dough comes together. Knead the dough for 7-10 minutes and poke the dough with your finger, if it springs back it's ready. Sa

Sometimes in life it's the things you make from scratch that will create that perfect look to any table or mantel. I got all these floral stems from Hobby Lobby and Michael's when they have their sales to get stuff to make cute crafts like these. What you will need: foam block - I use the green cause it blends better with the plant/flower stems but since you're covering it up it won't matter too much. moss - I get the variety pack of the different colors of moss to use a fil

Red Meat Sauce Layers: In a large pot cook 1 1/2 lbs of ground beef until brown. Drain if there's a lot of grease from the beef, if there's not much cause you used a 90/10 or higher then you can leave what grease in there. To this add 1 diced onion to the pot and let it cook for a few minutes before adding 48 oz of marinara, 5 cloves of minced garlic, 2 TBS fresh oregano, 2 TBS fresh thyme (if you're using dried, use only half, cause tried is more concentrated) and 1 bay le

This is one of my favorite cakes to make. Spice Cake, but in the fall I like to add pumpkin puree to create a pumpkin spice cake! Mix all dry ingredients together in a bowl. 3 Cups Cake Flour (if you don't have cake flour it's just 1 Cup of all purpose flour mixed with 2 TBS of cornstarch to create cake flour) Sifted! 2 tsp Baking powder 1 tsp nutmeg 1 tsp ground ginger 1/2 tsp ground cloves 1 TBS cinnamon 1/2 tsp salt -- If you can't find ground cloves use a mortar and pest

Studying abroad is definitely an experience that I believe everyone should do. This has helped familiarize myself with the different cultures and beliefs from all over the World. While I studied abroad I was able to live in this gorgeous castle in Grantham, England where they actually filmed the movie " The Haunting " in. I was able to travel to France, Ireland, Scotland and Spain and see the most amazing things. Stonehenge, the Roman Baths, St. Pauls Cathedral and so much