This is riff on a Bobby Flay brunch dish, but some of his flavors just aren’t to my taste. So I changed things. This dish is perfect for a brunch or a tea; it combines some familiar item in a different package. I hope you like it. 4 ounces crab claw meat2 hard boiled eggs2…

It’s vacation season, and many people are sitting by the pool with a tropical drink. Well not me. I’m in the kitchen making a tropical drink into a dessert. Pina colada is some summer flavor, but only a little boozy. So here’s a new take on a bread pudding that mimics a pina colada’s flavor…

This was one of my Mom’s favorite breakfasts. Right there with crab cake Benedict; she would ask me to cook this whenever I visited. Now, lamb kidneys are hard to find, so it was rare for me to make. Happy Family Ranch just “processed some lambs, so I called dibs on the kidneys.(I was the…

I had this dish at Osteria Cicchetti in Wilmington, North Carolina and loved it. (They also had to the best cioppino I have ever had, but more in that in a later post.) This is ideal for summer, and the grill is a perfect place to toast the bread, but your broiler will work great…

Bacon is great. Everything is better with bacon. So bacon would work with chocolate and chili, right? Guajillo chilis are more fruity than hot although you do get a little back heat. Semi-sweet chocolate mixes well with the fruity notes and the smoky bacon. Brings these to your next BBQ pot luck. 1 pound thick…