I have never had a chance to celebrate Mardi Gras in NOLA, so my only Mardi Gras experience comes from working at Showboat Casino in Atlantic City when I was in my early twenties. The casino’s tagline was, “The Mardi Gras Casino” and from the minute you stepped on property the goal was to take you …
I absolutely love potatoes. They are a blank canvas that is just asking for so many wonderful flavors to enhance them. That’s probably why loaded baked potatoes are so popular – bacon, cheese, sour cream, and chives – what’s not to love?! With the cold and snowy weather we’ve been having lately, as well as …
I absolutely love blueberries. They are one of my favorite fruits, and I have yet to have them in a way I don’t like, but my favorite has got to be when they are baked into blueberry muffins or coffee cakes. Unfortunately, many homemade muffin recipes produce dry, dense muffins, with little flavor. That is …
