Cinco de Mayo is a great excuse to celebrate seafood in May. This simple recipe can be prepared quickly and you can vary the seafood used in it to your liking. I used half scallops and half shrimp but one pound of shrimp, scallops, crab, or any combination of the three is perfect for this dish. You can also adjust the spiciness of this dish to suit your taste by using mild ...
Farm Fun at the Berry Stacks at the St. Augustine U-Pick Farm
A very long time ago, I worked at Epcot, Disney's Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow. While there, I wore the famous Excruciating Polyester Costumes Of Torture and Every Paycheck Came On Thursday. It was a lot of fun—I was fresh out of college, and Disney was absolutely awesome about letting their employees work in a variety of different capacities. I was in Guest ...
Easiest Biscuits Ever
My great-grandmother Tiny (the actual name on her birth certificate was "Tiny Margaret Keach") died before I was born. She was an incredible woman that had 11 children, raised 9 to adulthood, helped run a very successful family farm, made all of her children's clothes, and managed to cook and create amazing dishes that still cause people to drool when they remember ...
Breakfast Focaccia Biscuits
My Mema used to make the best sausage and cheese biscuits every Christmas. I can remember the absolute chaos in her kitchen as she and her three daughters (one being my step-mother) created the amazing feast for our Christmas meal with at least a half dozen rowdy kids running around enthusiastically. Some of the foods they prepared came from the garden on their farm. In ...
How to toast coconut—or nuts—easy trick in the MICROWAVE!
It has happened to me a hundred times. A dish is almost done— just needs one more tiny thing and it will be perfect! I decide to add a few nuts or toasted coconut but want the best flavor so...I pop them in the hot oven for a few minutes only to be overwhelmed by a cloud of smoke a short while later. If, like me, you tend to get distracted and slightly overdo the toasting ...
