Baseball season is back everyone…   Here in Cleveland we are all praying for a good season or better yet, we hope we are in for an AWESEOME season!!!  GO TRIBE! For those of you planning on being regulars at the ballpark this season you of course are not only look forward to awesome games, but [...]

So we’ve just gotten through the Easter holiday.  Some of us are still full from all the food we ate … but that could be a whole other post.  I have come to enjoy the many traditions of the Easter season.   Some of the most common are the fun Easter basket, full of candy, chocolates, [...]

We wish you a very Happy Easter.  Full of family, friends, lots of food… and especially lots of Easter eggs and candy!!

For those of you who read about the salad club I’m a part of at work, we have added soups to our every other week get together.  I decided to create a soup that was fitting for our wintery weather here in North East Ohio.  So, even though it’s technically spring, take this opportunity to [...]

  When I was a little girl my dad used to take the family to this wonderful restaurant almost every Sunday.  It was called, El Parador.  Literally translated  “The Stopper”.  Basically this was “the place to stop and eat”… so yummy.  Our lunch was always the same.  Rotisserie chicken right off the spit, avocado salad, [...]

I love Garlic!  Everything I cook has a little bit of garlic in it.  Minced, chopped, sliced… any way that it will best fit the dish.  Growing up my mom normally used the garlic powder or garlic salt. When I first got married, my mother-in-law introduced me to fresh garlic.    After we would get home [...]

OMG!! (For those of you that may not be into instant messaging or texting or twittering, that means ‘oh my god’.)   If you haven’t been to Maggiano’s Little Italy in the Beachwood Mall YOU HAVE TO GO AND EAT THERE!  Let me stress that again – GO EAT THERE! So of course you as me [...]

Who doesn’t love Peanut Butter?   If you’ve followed my previous posts, you’ll know that I grew up in Venezuela.  Now in the early 90’s it was hard to find a lot of American imported foods, but we were lucky enough to have peanut butter available in the local grocery store.  Most people when think of [...]

What snack is better then potato chips or popcorn?  I’d say it’s the Corn Nut.  Did you know that Corn Nuts date back to 1936. A gentleman by the name of Albert Holloway invented this wonderful snack. They were sold in his tavern as a bar snack, much like peanuts are set out at bars [...]

So, when I say Fast Food what comes to your mind? Let me list a few that come to my mind: Wendy’s  MacDonald’s  Arby’s  Taco Bell But mostly, when someone says ‘fast food’ an image of a hamburger and French fries come to most peoples mind.  Am I right folks?  So I said that you [...]