Ninja Food Processor

The Ninja Food Processor performed extremely well when Consumer Reports put it through their tests and I cannot imagine any greater recommendation than that.  They called this small appliance the second best blender and the top food chopper, making it a most excellent choice for our kitchen and yours, too.

You have to love that this unit is economical priced as it is on sale at Amazon and don't forget that Amazon will ship it to you for free.  Order your Ninja from Amazon.

Brenda

What's Your Favorite Summer Salad Recipe?

There's nothing that says summer to me more than a summer salad. Whether that be a crisp green salad, a potato salad, a macaroni salad or even a fruit salad, enjoying salad is one of the pleasures of summer for me although I do, of course, eat salad all year long.

It is a nice bonus, of course, that my family LOVES a salad, too because then not only am I feeding them but I am usually feeding them nutritious food for even when I make pasta salad, I try to make sure it is loaded with fresh vegetables.

How about you? Do you love salad? What's your favorite kind of salad?

Brenda

Quick Link:

Order your copy of Angela Liddon's Oh She Glows Salads cookbook here on Amazon.

Grasslands Leprechaun Irish Coffee Recipe Coffee Mug

Perhaps I'm a bit late for St. Patrick's Day on March 17, but then again perhaps I am not. If you love Irish Coffee, you'll drink it any time of the year.

I stumbled across this fantastic Leprechaun Irish Coffee recipe mug, which I think is smashing and I just had to share with you. This ceramic mug is by Grasslands and features a high-gloss finish (and a wee leprechaun on the handle.) It measures about 5 inches by 3 inches and holds 13 ounces of your favourite hot beverage including but not limited to Irish Coffee. Don’t miss the fact that it has the recipe for Irish Coffee printed right on the back...

And did you know that Irish Coffee has all four food groups? Alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.

See you
at the pub!

Quick Links:

Order this Irish Coffee mug and the matching accessories from Amazon.
Pick out a great Leprechaun movie to watch with the family.

The Big Cook Cookbook Review

It's National Frozen Food Day. This is one holiday that my husband will not clamor to enjoy the way he does when it is National Chocolate Cake Day or National Banana Bread Day. 

We're not big fans of prepared frozen food because of the extra ingredients, calories and sodium often found in it.  I try not to buy too much convenience food but I will admit to buying some. However, the frozen food that we really, really like is homemade and we're having a bit of fun with this somewhat hard-to-find cookbook: The Big Cook.

The Big Cook was written by Deanna Siemens, Lorelei Thomas and Joanne Smith. It is one of those books that, when used according to plan, will allow you to prepare 200 meals in a day. I've never done that but I have tried a few recipes from this cookbook and love how it enables me to go to the freezer and remove a package with a meal already prepared.

My son's favorite of the recipes we have tried is the hamburger soup and I apologize, Ian, for not making it the last time you were home from university.  Ian loves homemade soup and really dislikes the cafeteria soup at his university so a hot bowl of hamburger soup would have been a great meal when he was here for reading week, but I digress.

THE BIG COOK is available here, on Amazon.  If you are looking for a guide to help you "fill your freezer with delicious, nutritious main-course meals" you should consider this cookbook.


See you 
in the kitchen!
Brenda

The Looneyspoons Collection Cookbook Review

It's been since November 25, 2011, that we have been using and LOVING the new Looneyspoons Collection cookbook by Janet and Greta Podleski. While every meal that we have eaten since then has definitely NOT come from a cookbook (that would be too amazing), the meals that we have had from a cookbook have mostly been from The Looneyspoons Collection and, without exception, they have been delicious.

Perhaps my favorite recipe is cunningly called Thai One On and is an "exotic sweet potato and coconut soup with shrimp." The next time we try it, it will be without shrimp, to better suit my husband's dietary needs. However, if you like Thai cuisine, you will want to try this soup.

More suited to my husband's requirements is the Salmon Cowell recipe for grilled salmon in an orange-ginger marmelade. YUMMY. The doctor says to eat fish three times a week. If we had this salmon recipe every time, that would be no problem.

We've enjoyed the Hot Fudge Monday, a "heavenly fudgy cake smothered in a hot, chocolatey sauce." Really a pudding cake by another name, it was delicious and it was my grown sons' first experience with the interesting phenomenon that is pudding cake.

Finally, we took the Merry Cherry Cheesecake to my brother and sister-in-law's home as our contribution to dinner one night just before Christmas. It was lighter than the traditional no-bake cheesecake and it was lemony, too. The recipe was perfect for a crowd, feeding nine of us with leftovers for the hosts after we departed.

We love the educational tidbits strewn throughout the book as well as the cartoons. To see a few of them, why not 'like' our Facebook page, Culinary Favorites From A to Z, and share the fun!

Would we recommend The Looneyspoons Collection? DEFINITELY. We've loved the cookbooks and the recipes by Janet and Greta Podleski since their very first cookbook was released. 

Want to add The Looneyspoons Collection to your collection? You can buy it directly from Amazon by clicking right here. 

See you
in the kitchen!
Brenda


Quick Links:
Order your copy of The Looneyspoons Collection from Amazon.com.
Order your copy of The Looneyspoons Collection from Amazon.ca.