tr.v. dev·iled, dev·il·ing, dev·ils or dev·illed or dev·il·ling; 'To season (food) heavily.' Ah, Bacon & Sweet Pickle Stuffed Eggs, you never seem to disappoint, what with your smooth filling of sweet pickle bits and smoky, salty BACON. Unsure if this method is necessarily a classic, but it is darn sure tasty. This easy Bacon & Sweet Pickle Stuffed Eggs recipe calls for sweet pickle...
Recipes
The Diabetic-Friendly 'Jamie Deviled Egg'
The Diabetic-Friendly 'Jamie Deviled Egg' is the result of time spent researching and cooking up diabetic-friendly dishes to soon try for my niece, Jamie. So right out of the gate, let me just say The Diabetic-Friendly 'Jamie Deviled Egg' is healthy, visually appealing, and DOWNRIGHT DELISH. For those of you who will squawk when I...
The Deviled Egg
If there is one food that is guaranteed to show up at almost every southern get-together, I’d place my bet on it being the Deviled Egg. Each of these four Deviled Egg recipes is available by clicking either the images or the links embedded and highlighted in the text. Kick off the festivities with this...
An Iced Apricot Bourbon Fizz
A chilled summertime bourbon cocktail using fresh muddled apricots, simple syrup, and elderflower liqueur. Guaranteed to aide in keeping you chill during this, the summer of quasi-continued self quarantine, An Iced Apricot Bourbon Fizz. To all my male readers, this is NOT a girly drink. It is Bourbon through and through. Ladies, I softened this...
All Hail The Sloppy Joe
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 Messy, yummy, kid-friendly perfection - all hail the Sloppy Joe! Okay all of you busy soccer moms relentless in your continued search for fast, easy, and adaptable recipes, All Hail...
Coosaw Island Creamy Cold Crab Dip
A visit to the Lowcountry of South Carolina will change your outlook on life. Yes, I said 'life.' An icy cold beer and a bowl of Coosaw Island's famous cold crab dip will hasten that new found clarity... An icy cold beer and a bowl of Coosaw Island Creamy Cold Crab Dip will put you...
Oven 'Sun-dried' Tomatoes
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 A bumper crop of cherry tomatoes makes for sweet, scrum-delyicious Oven 'Sun-Dried' Tomatoes to be used on everything from homemade pizza to chicken cutlets in tomato cream. Best part is,...
A Summertime Sherry Colada
Sherry, an idiosyncratic Spanish wine whose tradition spans 3,000 years. I am just going to refer to it as a Summertime Sherry Colada because I really do not know what else to call it, other than to describe it. AND IT'S GOOOOOD. Seldom do I get excited about shaker drinks because in this household, I...
Chive & Cheese Cocktail Swirls
A super easy appetizer that makes a pile. Chive & Cheese Cocktail Swirls are EASY 'at-the-ready' happy hour snacks I keep on hand for when I shake up a cold libation with family and friends. Pillows of pure deliciousness. This idea is not new. The variations for this have been kicking around for years, and...
Fruit Galette with Salted Honey
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 Seems to me these delicate summer fruits all come in at the same time, leaving me no choice but to cook 'em all up together...a wildly imperfect sugared masterpiece. A...
3 Ingredient Buttermilk Biscuits
A no-fail Southern buttermilk biscuit recipe that will have them thinking you are a pro, even if this is your first time ever making biscuits. Weekend hot breakfasts don't get any simpler or more delicious than luscious 3 Ingredient Buttermilk Biscuits, brushed to perfection with sweet cream butter. Feed your crowd with pleasing and belly-filling...
Crusty Dutch Oven Baked Bread
Homemade bread fills the belly and is pleasing to the senses. During this crisis, baking has reduced my daily stress and provided much comfort. Crusty Dutch Oven Baked Bread is ten minutes of preparation that ultimately produces two big loaves of warm and crusty comfort. During the three and one half hour rise time, I...
Chicken Cutlets with Sun-dried Tomato Cream Sauce
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 The beautiful thing about cooking Chicken Cutlets with Sun-dried Tomato Cream Sauce in one pan is that you have only one pan to clean. A cast iron skillet is the...
How To Make A Crustless Quiche
Regardless of the fillings you choose, the ratios are always the same, resulting in a perfect crustless quiche. A frequent question I receive in the Not Entirely Average in-box is how to make a crustless quiche. Well, how to make any quiche, really. This is honestly a more recent inquiry. It appears to be hand...
Brooklyn Egg Creams and Classic Black & Whites
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 The peculiarity of the matter is such that an egg cream contains neither eggs, nor cream... Brooklyn Egg Creams and Classic Black & Whites are both spectacular singular indulgences....
Classic Roasted Tomato Crostini
Classic Roasted Tomato Crostini is every good reason to buy a beautiful crusty French baguette. Classic Roasted Tomato Crostini is every good reason to buy a beautiful crusty French baguette. I am not sure if anybody else is tired of eating, but I know for me, quarantine has meant cooking. And not only cooking for my...
A Perfect Margarita Cocktail
A Perfect Margarita Cocktail quenches the thirst like no other. The weekend is nearing so I ask, ‘what is your cocktail plan?’ A Perfect Margarita Cocktail begins with a fantastic Blanco tequila and bunches of fresh limes. We do not fool around here on weekends, we go straight to Costco and grab the biggie bag-o-limes....
The Manhattan Cocktail
The American 1860's Tincture Fashionable Still The Manhattan Cocktail is a highly gratifying and appropriate ‘get-together’ potion if ever there was one. Link to some of my other cocktail recipes, including my most popular cocktail post for PIRATES PUNCH! THE SPICED BLOOD ORANGE SOUR THE SOUL TRAIN A POLYNESIAN SNOW ANGEL A PERFECT MARGARITA COCKTAIL...
Best Chicken and Dumplings Recipe
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 Chicken and Dumplings is a comfort food classic of rich stock, delicate chicken, a trilogy of sweet vegetables, and tender homemade dumplings… I absolutely cannot wait to share today’s...
Chocolate Raspberry Tart
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 This stunner of a tart showcases the raspberry like no other, seductively mingling with soft chocolate ganache that has been heightened with a trifling glint of almond. Think this looks...
