Chocolate Cake in a Mug My wife’s sister Judy sent us four gorgeous mugs with zip lock bags filled with what looked like instant coco powder. There were also little packets of chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, crushed candy cane and cinnamon chips. Hmm, I thought, this looks interesting, but what is it? Caught up […]
How About Some Bread Pudding About Bread Puddings By contributing food writer Mark R. Vogel Various pudding recipes, especially bread pudding, have been traditional Christmas dishes since the 19th century. Before discussing bread pudding we must first illuminate what pudding in general is, and that’s the real challenge. According to the culinary encyclopedia Larousse […]
How to make the best Tiramisu you’ve ever tasted! My wife and I picked up this recipe at a cooking class at Deer Valley, UT when we lived in Park City. The class is really more of a night out to dinner with lots of wine (although my pregnant wife couldn’t partake) plus fun cooking […]
Just Peachy – Peach Cobbler That Is This summer, my wife, daughter, dog Zoe, and I got in the car and took a trip up to Utah’s Famous Fruitway that is located along a 10-mile stretch of Northern Utah’s Highway 89 between Ogden and Brigham City. There we found approximately a dozen fruit stands that […]
Don’t be scared by the word “Soufflé”. I remember when I first started cooking and someone suggested making a soufflé I thought, “No way. Sounds too fancy and difficult to make.” Loosely translated, soufflé means “full of air.” That doesn’t sound so difficult, does it? In the food world, one of the best ways to […]
Geoff’s Perfect Double Chocolate Chip Cookies I’m not one for calling any recipe “perfect” (unless it has a dramatic sound to it). I think calling any recipe perfect has more to do with an individual’s tastes and preferences. However, my friend Geoff, a novice home cook who loves to make desserts and now has […]
New Orleans Style Bananas Foster I wanted to share with you my adaptation of a Bananas Foster recipe because it was much easier to make than I thought it would be and maybe you’re looking for something to serve at one of your holiday dinners. The ingredients are simple to prep and the cooking technique […]
Key Lime Pie is my favorite dessert so this is one of my favorite recipes. My family and I were in sunny Florida around the time of hurricane Irene and even she couldn’t dampen the wonder of Disney. We were at the resort because my wife was attending a business conference and wanted us to […]
My Daughter Make Me A Milkshake – Yeah! When I arrived home this morning after a visit with Meg to the Farmer’s Market, I was greeted with a banana caramel milkshake my 14 year old daughter prepared for me. She was thumbing through a teen magazine, saw this inviting concoction and decided she had to […]
Jenni’s Go To Recipe for Chocolate Cake You have heard me say time and again that I’m not much of a baker but hope some day I get the bug to create beautiful desserts. My oldest daughter Nell does love to bake and her younger sister Maddie loves chocolate cake. So I asked my friend […]
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How to Grill Your Turkey on a Gas Grill
Something Different – Grilling Your Turkey I wanted to share with you a novel way we cooked our turkey one year while we were still living in Park City, Utah. We grilled it on the barbecue. Now I’m sure many of you are saying to yourselves, “RG, get real. We’ve been grilling our bird for […]
Turkey Buying and Cooking Tips With Thanksgiving right around the corner, I thought you might enjoy talking turkey including some tips on choosing a bird and how to cook it. You would think cooking a turkey is not that big a deal but looking at all the articles in the current November issues of cooking […]
Moist Thanksgiving Turkey Tips
How To Roast A Perfectly Moist Turkey A whole turkey, perfectly cooked, juicy in thigh and breast and richly caramelized all over is a thing of beauty, but it is, indeed a rare bird. Turkeys are large, they have a big hole inside them. They are thick in some places and thinner in others. They […]
