Chocolate Tart with Chocolate Glaze and Chambord Raspberries
…especially when the raspberries are soaked in Chambord Liqueur!
Drunken Raspberries!
Recently my sister shared this recipe with me. She prepared this dessert for their Valentine’s Day celebration. Albeit it was a few days after Valentine’s Day – but better late than never. Her new puppy had spay surgery on Valentine’s, plus she had worked that day and the dessert just didn’t happen. Continue reading “Chocolate Glazed Chocolate Tart”
Chocolate Covered Strawberries with a twist…Bourbon
Years ago we decided it’s not worth the hassle to go out on Valentine’s Day. After a few disappointing meals, very long wait times and crowded restaurants, we’ve opted to have a nice meal at home. This year it was cold and dreary so we dined in our pajamas! You can’t do that in public. Well, I guess you can but we choose not to.
For dinner we had fresh Mediterranean 
salmon, asparagus and quinoa. But the highlight of the meal was the dessert – strawberries dipped in chocolate bourbon sauce then rolled in finely chopped walnuts. A couple of weeks ago I made Chocolate Bourbon Cake and I had a small amount of leftover icing that I had drizzled over the cake. I put it in the frig in a small, sealed container thinking I would find a way to put it to good use. It was just too good to throw out! Continue reading “Valentine’s Day Chocolate Bourbon Covered Strawberries”
A four-day itinerary of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail
It is one of the most enjoyable things we’ve discovered, obviously, since we’ve done it a few times. We’re planning to do it again this year and will probably do it every other year or so until we can no longer make the drive. We live in southern Illinois, just east of St. Louis, so the drive to Louisville, Kentucky is only about four hours.
We combined our first trip to the Bourbon Trial with another stop we’d wanted to do for a very long time.
Healthy overnight oats made with soy milk.
These overnight oats are mixed up the night before 
and placed in the frig overnight. Then the next morning you have a quick, nutritious breakfast ready and waiting. You could make them the same morning that you plan to eat them but they would need to sit for 1-2 hours so that the flavors can meld. Also since you will be using Old Fashioned oats, they will need to soften up a bit. Continue reading “Soy Milk Overnight Oats”
Palindrome Day February 2/2/2020
A lot of twos. Groundhog Day, Super Bowl Sunday and, much, much more.
So, I’ve examined the number two and its impact on our lives on this the second day of February, 2020. We’ll start with Ground Hog day. This year Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow so that would indicate an early spring. Here in southern Illinois that would seem the case. It’s in the mid to high sixties today – a great day for a wedding. Continue reading “02/02/2020”
Spicy turkey chili made with home-canned tomatoes
Most of the time there is not a recipe, we just add what sounds good and use ingredients we have on hand.
Paul was always the chili cook until more recently. I wasn’t working and he was working full time and it just made sense for me to do the cooking.
Recently, since he retired he made ‘his’ chili. It was good as always but he kept asking me what ingredients he had used years ago. There again, no recipe. Continue reading “Turkey Chili”
