BBQ — Barbecue — Bar-B-Q Shrimp However you choose to spell BBQ, it still is not going to describe this dish. On our recent trip to new Orleans, my daughter, Alexis, and I took a cooking class at The New Orleans Cooking Experience. Chique Collier taught the class and I think this may be my [...]

I just wanted something easy and light for dinner tonight.  I love making anything with pasta  and seafood and we do get beautiful seafood here in Texas any time of the year. Scallops and pasta are a perfect combination for a light dinner and this recipe fits all my criteria for quick and easy. Today while [...]

“Peanuts! Popcorn! Cotton Candy! Corndogs!, getum while they’re hot.” Now that is what I use to hear at our county fair. Our small town in Southern Missouri (Caruthersville) was the county seat and we had a county fair every year. President Truman even went one year for the festivities. (I was a baby then, of course.). [...]

Like Bubba Gump, I love shrimp prepared just about any way. I have boiled shrimp for shrimp cocktail, bar-b-qued it, ceveched it, grilled it, kebabed it, baked it, butterflied it, creoled it, scampied it, sweet and soured it, foo yunged it and Shrimp and Gritted it. So if there is a way out there I [...]

Another www.daringkitchen.com challenges and I’m pleased with the results. The 2009 Daring Cooks challenge was hosted by Simone of Junglefrog Cooking. Simone chose Salmon en Croute (or alternative recipes for Beef Wellington or Vegetable en Croute) from Good Food Online. I’m really getting into these challenges. This one is the “cook’s” challenge and they are [...]