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Salsa Soup Recipe, Yum, Yum

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Every month I get the Martha Stewart Everyday Food cookbook and I usually glance in there at all the pretty pics, tear out a few “maybe” recipes and then toss the book on my counter. Honestly a lot of recipe books carry foods or spices I don’t regularly keep on hand so unless I plan [...]

Easy Butter Pound Cake Recipe

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I always tell everyone I cant bake. The truth is I nearly burned my house to oblivion in a cooking accident,  but thus far I have only just managed to burn bakery items. In all honesty, I can bake, I can cook, but I have a horrible time concentrating on the end result. Translation: I [...]

Charlotte the Chef!

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I am big on copycat recipes. I love the salad dressings at restaurants, the special sauces, the breads, the dipping, and all the fresh spices! I am a decent cook (not so much in the baking department) but I can cook up a mean piece of chicken if I feel like it. The other night [...]

Oscar Party Recipe Ideas

Ever since I finished up my Top 100 Mom Blogs of 2009 I realized how utterly overrun with “stuff” my blog was. Don’t get me wrong. I liked it. I loved it even. It just wasn’t very “reader” friendly and lets face it, without you, this blog is nothin’ but a place I put up  [...]

Homemade Pretzels

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Charlotte and I are not talented cooks. Nothing ever looks right, but we have fun. The other day we made Homemade Pretzels. Do not be fooled, this is harder than it looks. Here is the recipe we used: Ingredients 1 1/4 cups water (approx 105 degrees) 1 tablespoon yeast 1/4 cup brown sugar 2 cups occident flour (bread flour) 2 cups [...]

We made our first pie.

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[private] The day before yesterday Charlotte, Chris, and I were watching some pie bake off on TV (our lives are thrilling) and I thought, oh, this is easy as …pie. Can you believe I have never made a pie before? We even had to buy a pie plate. That’s pathetic. I figured nothing to it [...]

Tasty Thursdays-Sweets For Your Sweetie(s)

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This week, you get to share in some of the sweet treats we enjoy each Valentine’s Day in the SuzanneSez household.  To me, it’s important to spend the holiday showing those around me that they are loved. My boys get small gifts, Ed enjoys a favorite meal, but honestly? They all look forward to dessert. [...]

Tasty Thursday-Big Game Treats

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First off, thank you for all of those lovely comments last week. It was so incredible to get some immediate feedback to the recipes I shared. There are a few recipes in the works based on your requests. This week, I was torn on what to write about. Do I continue to give more recipes [...]

Tasty Thursday

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Written by Mommy Blogger, Heather Happy Thursday! This weeks theme is COOKIES! The Holidays are the perfect time for baking. With the temperature dropping there is nothing better than being in my kitchen whipping up a batch of fresh cookies. Here are some recipes that are sure to get the “Mmmmm” factor from the family! Peanut butter [...]

Tasty Thursday: Reducing your Risk

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I am sure we are well aware that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. As October is coming to a close I wanted to focus this weeks tasty Thursday on different foods that can actually reduce the risk of developing breast cancer. First lets look at different types of foods and their benefits to keeping you healthy [...]