Mexican Cornmeal Baked Chicken Wings With Pace Picante Salsa

Coating for wings:

2 1/2 pounds chicken wings
1/4 cup cornmeal
1 envelope taco seasoning mix
2 teaspoons dried parsley flakes
3/4 teaspoon salt

Directions

 In a resealable plastic bag, combine the ingredients. Add chicken wings, a few at a time, and shake to coat.

Place in a single layer on two greased cookie sheet style baking pans. Bake at 350° until the wings are crispy or on the grill  if you live in an area you can grill all year.

Salsa sauce:
1 jar Mild Pace Picante Salsa
2 to 3 tablespoons minced cilantro
1 1/2 to 2 tablespoons lime juice
salt and pepper

Take 1/2 cup of picante salsa add lime juice. Serve with chicken wings, pour sauce directly over wings, or use as a dip,  garnish with cilantro.

Italian Cream Cheese Herb and Parmesan Mashed Potato Recipe

If you're looking for the creamiest mashed potatoes ever, this is the recipe you're looking for.


Perfect for any meal, great on a shepherds pie and spoon licking delicious.



I have used this recipe over and over for the last 30 years and it's the best-mashed potato recipe ever.


During the last few years, we have tried other ways to prepare them, and these are truly the best tasting.


They are so good, they don't need gravy or to be doctored up in any way.


One other tip, sprinkle the top with a delicious favorite shredded cheese and broil the top for a loaded style mashed potato and even sprinkle them with crispy bacon!


The best ever, believe me!

Cannoli Tarts Recipe

In a hurry, and don't have the cylinders to make cannoli shells? No problem using a cupcake tin we got you covered with these easy copycat cannoli tarts they're so easy and delicious that you're going to be completely happy with these little gems in taste.

With a little Marsala wine and butter on the pastry, a delicious cannoli filling with ricotta cheese, and mini chocolate chips, these easy tarts have a homerun flavor for the classic favorite Sicilian Italian cannoli pastry.

Cannoli are usually shaped in log form and filled with rich ricotta cheese filling, these filled little tarts are about the easiest replicas you'll ever find.

A baked pie shell molded in cupcake tins, and much faster and so simple that require no standing over a hot stove frying those cylinder-style shells.

They really are a big hit after any big Italian dinner.

You can make the pie crust ahead of time and just fill them later too when needed! How fun to be able to serve these at a shower, wedding reception, or gathering.

Moist Cranberry Orange Bread

This easy, one-bowl moist buttery cranberry orange loaf uses fresh orange zest and fresh coarsely chopped cranberries. No mixer is needed and it is the perfect holiday quick bread!.

This easy quick bread is bursting with fresh cranberries and fall flavors then drizzled with an optional orange zest icing, a must make during the fall season.

The moist crumb bread gets its texture from buttermilk to keep it soft and buttery bursting with a sweet and tart flavor.

Using all simple pantry ingredients this super easy holiday/fall loaf will be the hit of the season in your home with family and friends.

I love how versatile this basic batter is you can add just about any fruit you prefer to it but this is the prettiest gift-giving loaf around holiday time.

If you happen to be a cranberry fan also try our Cranberry Fluff and Amaretto Cranberry Sauce both are favorites for us cranberry lovers!

The best part about this recipe is it's done all in one bowl and can be made into loaves, cupcakes, or mini loaf pans.

Scroll down to get this printable recipe.

Chicken with Creamy Parmesan Sauce

If you have a busy schedule then this Chicken with Cream Parmesan Sauce is one of the fastest one-pan skillet meals and is done in less than 30 minutes.

We have suggestions below to even make it to the table using store-bought premade ingredients to make your meal in minutes and so delicious!

If you do have the time this creamy Parmesan sauce is terrific even dipping your bread in with breadsticks so you want to take advantage of every opportunity to make it from scratch from time to time.

Pour this delectable sauce over pasta, rice, potatoes, or just a slice of bread, the meal is really spectacular and the kids even ask for a second helping.

See the most straightforward ways and tips for a fast meal for your family in no time in our printable recipe card at the end of this post, just scroll down to the bottom and hit print.

Johnny Cakes Island Style St Maarten and Bahama's Recipe

Baked or Fried this is a Carribean style donut, but served as breakfast with lunch or dinners on the Island!

Baked Breadcrumb Topped Tilapia in Wine Butter

This is an easy-baked flaky fish topped with buttery crunchy breadcrumbs poached in a wine butter.

The fish can be substituted for any white fish or even chicken using this topping and changing the baking time.

If you love a crunchy buttery breadcrumb topping this will be perfect for just about any meat your family loves.

Scroll down to our easy-to-read recipe, hit print and ads will go away.

Individual Simple Spumoni Baked Alaska

This is a delicious semi homemade Baked Alaska. You can either buy the cake and the ice cream or make it all from scratch.

I love mine with sponge cake homemade and I make a semi homemade Italian Spumoni Ice cream. Broiled meringue on top gives it a unique elegant flavor for this dessert.

Tomato Sauce Guest Post with Curt

Traditional Sunday Sauce "The Next Generation", is my son's Curt's version! This has three kinds of meats, boneless fried spare ribs (shown), Italian homemade Sausage and Italian Sunday morning meatballs inside this bubbling pot of wonderful sauce. A very thick, delicious sauce, with fresh pureed plum tomatoes, fresh herbs and lots of meat, slowly cooked for a minimun of two hours.

Easy Orange, Lemon, Lime Zest and Freezing Fresh Herbs Make Your Own Recipe

Fresher, fabulous zest you can make that lasts for  months!

I use alot of fresh herbs and fresh fruit zest in my recipes. I just wanted to share this method with my viewers. I not only love the freshness in the zest here,  the smell while you making this is a breath of fresh air in your home as well!

Here's the easiest way to make this perfect addition to many of your fabulous meals your making with orange, lemon, lime or actually any herbs as well.

Directions:
Wash your fruit or herbs first. Dry them off.
Take a hand grater and grate the fruit making sure you don't go into the whites of the citrus, this is the bitter part.
Then make your piles of zest, place on wax paper or a freezer proof plate.
Freeze the zest for three weeks. This will dry it out. It is now ready to place in a glass container. Keep in a dry cool dark place in the cupboard or refrigerator. This lasts up to 6 months. Do not get this into sunlight the zest will fade although is still flavorful, it won't look nice.

Mint, basil, parsley, dill, thyme oregano all freeze well~

Herbs
You can follow the same method for all green herbs, however, I freeze it after washing and throw the herbs into freezer bags and freeze until needed.. You can  also freeze the herbs  in ice water in ice cube trays and just use a cube in your stews, soups etc. Leave it in the freezer until needed. I don't dry and bottle the herbs...

Nothing better than fresh from the freezer when it's winter time!

Hope this has been an informative and helpful way to use that citrus up and preserve herbs, your going to use more of it now that you aren't paying so much for these wonderful additions to your cookies, cakes and entree's. Enjoy!

Nutella Bread Pudding Nutella is The Latest Food Craze for 2011

Nutella Bread Pudding!
This is the craze for quite some time and still as popular as ever  in 2011 

Nutella Bread Pudding
12 slices Egg Bread or 12 slices Texas Toast Bread, at least 1 day old

1 1/2 cups Nutella
2 cups light cream or half and half or whole milk
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons hazelnut liqueur
1 cup sugar
4 large eggs
Preheat the oven to 350°F Grease an 8-inch square baking dish with unsalted butter.

 Make 6 sandwiches with the bread and Nutella. Cut each sandwich into 8 small squares. Pile the sandwich pieces into the prepared baking dish..

 In a small saucepan, combine the cream, salt, and vanilla and cook over medium heat until warm.  In a large bowl, whisk together the sugar and eggs. Slowly add the cream mixture, stirring constantly to make sure the eggs do not cook.  Pour the mixture over the bread and cover the dish with aluminum foil.

 Bake on the center rack of the oven till brown and crisp on top, removing the foil after about 20 minutes. The finished pudding will be golden brown on top.

 Serve with whipped topping....and drizzle chocolate syrup on top. Enjoy!

No Knead Artisan Bread

Artisan bread is a style of bread with a short shelf-life bread that is usually made and eaten the same day for the perfect full fresh taste it gives.


The bread requires virtually no tools done by hand in minutes and rises with very little work.


This is all homemade from scratch but you can use all store-bought and can really be made into any shape you prefer


The bread can also be used for toasting leftover and delicious with a dab of your favorite preserves or melted butter spread on it


Scroll down to check out our easy instructions in our printable recipe card.

Banana Foster Rum Cake

Banana Foster Rum Cake is one of those fancy cakes you really like to make for a special occasion like a birthday or anniversary, It's all made with love and from scratch.

As a bonus recipe, in the recipe card below we also include a the Real Banana Foster Dessert recipe for those who want to experience the dessert and not the cake which is super fast and easy but both recipes are off the charts delicious.

The cake is made with simple pantry ingredients like butter, sugar, salt, baking soda and powder, and bananas but the flavor comes from the bananas and rum combinations that are simply decadent.

When is a holiday celebration, this cake is certainly impressive piled high with either whipped cream or vanilla cream then topped with sliced bananas it's one your family and friends will remember for a very long time.

Being the cake is made from scratch it will be a little more dense, but certainly not dry with the layer of bananas on the bottom.

The first time I had this cake was on a cruise, and I had to try and recreate it, this cake was actually better than the cruise cake!

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Veal Saltimbocca Recipe

Well, this is our family version of the Veal Saltimbocca Recipe...as you all know there is no real right or wrong way to cook, my preference is always with mushrooms, and those are never found in the authentic version...I just love the mushrooms with this dish leave them out if you dislike them and usually served on a bed of spinach.


I also love making a homemade noodle recipe to serve alongside this dish, just add butter on the noodles a little grating cheese, black pepper, and some crushed garlic..you can adapt this any way you like and mix in a little of the sauce. It's delicious!