A quick and easy dessert.   I’m a couple of days late for a Cinco de Mayo dessert but what the heck, this will be good any time of the year. Chocolate and bananas are made for each other, a match made in heaven; and chocolate, bananas, topped with cinnamon sugar tortillas, grilled and served [...]

Sometimes you feel like a nut! Sometimes you don’t!     That’s one candy bar commercial that always rang true with me. Sometimes I did feel like a nut (literally) and other times I just wanted the creamy coconuty piece of candy without the almonds. Almond Joy and Mounds candy bars are sister bars but [...]

Lemon dessert perfect for Easter dinner . Lemonlious!   Why is it when Spring and Summer starts to show it’s pretty flowers, newly leafed trees, singing birds and light rains we think of things like lemon, asparagus, and beautiful green lettuces. Maybe it’s to purge our bodies of all those foods we consumed during the [...]

Can a classic be improved upon? I’m monkeying around with the bananas.     Can a classic be improved upon? It certainly can. There’s really not a change here; it’s just in the plateing of the dessert.  Very seldom do I find a recipe that I don’t end up tweaking to suit our taste. How [...]

KISS ME, SWEET TALK, BE MINE, HUG ME, TRUE LOVE, SOUL MATE     When you were a kid (unless you are my age maybe you didn’t do this) didn’t you just love Valentine’s Day. You got to make your special box to take to school so everyone could deposit a valentine card in it [...]