Entertaining Tips

cream cheese dill pickle rangoon

The dill pickle craze still seems to be going full tilt, so I’ve been figuring out new ways to incorporate them into easy, delicious recipes to share with all of you. Dill pickles! Dill pickles! Dill pickles! You see them popping up everywhere in all sorts of unexpected places, like… Dill pickle pizza, dill pickle…

sweet pickle tea sandwiches

If you like sweet pickles, and if you like cucumber sandwiches, I’m betting you’ll love these. You can make these with sweet pickle slices or dill pickle slices and they’re great both ways. I made mine with Wickles spicy sweet pickles today for tea time and they were so good. Just use you’re favorite pickles…

five minute funfetti cake

Five minute funfetti cake! It’s true! You can make a cake in only 5 minutes in your microwave. I know it sounds too good to be true, but I decided to create a recipe for five minute microwave cake yesterday. I knew I didn’t want to use a cake mix, and that I wanted it…

smoked almond pesto

Hello friends! Do you just LOVE pesto? I do and I use it whenever I can. I like to add it to mayonnaise to create a delicious sandwich spread, and sometimes I just use it in place of mayonnaise. It’s great added to cashew cream and slathered on pasta for pesto “alfredo” like I made…

crock pot walking gyro bar

Hello friends! How are you all enjoying summer? Is is hotter than the blazes where you are? Minnesota has been unpredictable, but that’s pretty standard for this state. 100 degrees one day, chilly the next, and on a sunny day the storm clouds might start rolling in just in time to disrupt your beach day.…

The Union Square Cafe’s Bar Nuts

Looking for something delicious, and fancy schmancy to add to the menu for your next cocktail party? These are so good and so addictive. I like to make up little cellophane bags of them and send them home with guests as party favors. They also make a nice hostess gift. This perfect bar nut recipe…

birthday cake popcorn

One of my friends gave me some yummy, gourmet “birthday cake” flavored popcorn for Christmas and it was SO incredible I was determined to create a copycat version. This tastes like funfetti birthday cake! It’s buttery, and the white chocolate, flavorings, and sprinkles make it taste like frosting. This popcorn is fast and easy to…

chocolate brownie batter hummus

Hello, Friends! Are you ready for a healthy, delicious, amazing dessert idea? You may have seen chocolate hummus at different stores like Trader Joes, Aldi, and specialty food stores and wondered what in the heck it was. The first time I saw it in the store my first reaction was NO. Beans and chocolate? No…

cinnamon maple butter

Hello, Friends! I made up a big batch of cornbread to go with our Thanksgiving feast this year, and this delicious cinnamon maple butter to slather on top of it. It was the star of the show! It was the easiest thing I made, and of course it got all the attention. Hee hee. Figures,…

cafe tables and afternoon tea

Hello, Friends! What have you all been up to? Have you been enjoying the last bits of summer and the beginning of Fall? Jeff went on a business trip for four days so I was on my own in our big, old house. I decided to make it a creative, productive four days and did…