West Coast Deviled Eggs

Easter is the beginning of Deviled egg season.  What you've never heard of Deviled egg season?!  Seriously? Well now you have (wink).  As soon as the days get a bit longer, and we start getting more beautiful sunshine, it's time to start hard boiling those eggs and filling them with a dollop of deliciousness!  Here is a recipe for one of my all time favorite Deviled eggs.  I have many I really love, but this one is unusual and very tasty.  The shallots give the eggs a sweet, mild, oniony flavor and they also add a nice crunch. The sun-dried tomatoes add a sweetness and tanginess.  The capers bring a nice mild briney-ness.  The anchovies add a depth of flavor and a bit of salt.  I never tell anyone that these have anchovy paste because some people automatically think they wont like them because they're squeamish about anchovies.  No one I've served these to has ever guessed the anchovy paste was in there.  They really do NOT have any hint of a fish taste   I hope you consider making this recipe for opening day.  Easter!  Of course!!!  If you don't celebrate Easter, no worries!  You can choose any day you like for your opening day.

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Quick Mexican Chicken

This is one of those homey, easy to prepare, delicious dinners I love for a midweek meal.  Everyone in my family is happy when I serve this.  It has lots of chunks of chicken, veggies and a mild yummy tomato sauce.  I serve it over rice to make sure you can sop up any extra tomato sauce.  This recipe is also really good for you.  The chicken is cooked in the tomato sauce instead of being sauteed  first so there is no extra oil.  The veggies get all soft so your kids will hopefully eat them with out even realizing they are in there(you could probably sneak extra in if you like).  I think this is even better the next day if your lucky enough to have some left over.  Next time your busy, but still need a quick and tasty meal, try this one out!

Chicken Marsala

This has been a really fun week at our house.  Last night, we made Chicken Marsala with our twenty something year old son and his friends.  I thought this would be the perfect time to try out a new recipe.  It was from,  The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, and I have to say it was totally fabulous.  Everyone loved it.  This recipe relies on sweet Marsala to create a delicious pan sauce that isn't diluted by, the often used, addition of chicken stock. The sauce has a generous amount of sliced mushrooms and pancetta.  It was absolutely perfect.  We're fighting over the few left overs for lunch.  They all may be stronger than me but I'm a heck of a lot feistier!  LOL. 

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Lemon Coconut Bars

I'm so excited that it's Spring!  The longer days of sunshine just put me in a good mood.  While I was blog surfing, I saw these beautiful bar cookies and I thought these would be the perfect spring treat.  Fortunately, I have a houseful of twenty year olds home for spring break, so I can make a few extra things without worrying that it will be just hubby and me eating them.  I was also lucky enough to have Miss M here to help me make them.  These bars turned out to be really delicious and incredibly easy.  They were a lovely combination of  lemony sweet and tart and I was surprised at just how wonderful the coconut was in these bars.  It added an extra dimension of flavor and a nice textural element.  These are just the right treat to welcome spring! Enjoy!!!

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Magic Middle Peanut Butter Cookies

Oh! My! Gosh!  I mean  seriously! I think I should rename these cookies to Danger Will Robinson Cookies.  They are sooo delicious they are truly dangerous.  They are soft, moist, chewy, and way yummy! I stashed mine in the back of the freezer hoping to forget about them for a bit.  No chance and they're even fabulous frozen.  You have to try these.  They have officially gone on  my favorite foods of all times list.  Bet they'll go on yours, too.

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Coconut Cupcakes

Yesterday was a big day for me.  My baby, my sweet son, turned 20! Yikes! How in the heck did that happen?!?  I mean, who is old enough to have their youngest child turn 20?  Evidently I AM!  Once I got over the horror that he was no longer a teenager and I was no longer able to tell people I was in my late 30's (with any hope of them possibly believing me ) we had  a lovely day.  Hubby and I drove up to spend the day with him.  We walk around his college campus, ate lots of good food and, and most of all, enjoyed the wonderful person we are both lucky enough to call our son.

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Pork Tenderloin with Caramelized Pears

This week, I was lucky enough to stumble upon this little gem of a recipe, while looking for a new way to prepare pork tenderloins.  I love pears so this recipe  called to me. The original recipe had you slicing the pork and browning those individual pieces.  I thought, why bother, because to me it seemed like a whole heck of a lot of extra work and increased my chances of easily drying out this beautiful piece of meat.  Well, I have to say that with the changes I made, I absolutely adored this recipe!  Even hubby was over the moon about it.  Its fairly easy to prepare as a week night meal but it is definitely worthy of company or a special occasion.

This recipe is at my new site. Hope to see you there :) I've posted a lot of new things.

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Steak Tacos

This is a family favorite.  The original recipe came from Bon Appetit but has evolved over the years to suit our taste.  It is a great week night meal because it doesn't require any marinading time and once you have the steak sliced it cooks fairly quickly.  I serve these tacos with all the usually things like shredded cheese, sour cream, lettuce and whatever else suits my mood, but, to tell you the truth, they are so nicely seasoned you easily could serve them without all that stuff.  In fact, when my son was still living at  home, I had to watch the pan closely or he would eat half of it before it got to the table! ( I always let him have a few bites before I "notice" so he could think he was mister sneaky! ).

This recipe is at my new site. Hope to see you there :) I've posted a lot of new things.

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