The Domestic Kitchen

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Imperial rice~ creamy comfort food This is one of my favorite dishes. On occasion, my Cuban neighbor will bring me some… and I graciously thank her and run to my kitchen to devour it.  Of …

I have to say I’m one of those people that spring clean in January. Something about the New Year makes me want to purge the excess clutter. Watching “hoarders” makes me want to do that, …

  I debated jumping on the blogger bandwagon and doing a “best of” post… so, that’s why I’m very late doing it. I couldn’t decide.  Anyway, I started to go through all of my pictures …

gingerbread truffles~ a great way to recycle cookies Yes… I said recycle cookies. There’s a lot you can do with store bought cookies to make them divine. Like pulverize them. Yum.

eggnog pancakes~ festive breakfast bites These were breakfast today… so this picture is really fresh.  Taken just 35 minutes ago, to be exact.

cherry vanilla nougat~ think of it as chewy ice cream This is a new addition to my cookie/candy platters & boxes this year…every year I  give out an assortment of sugar cookies, gingerbread men, fudge, …

For the past few years, I have been trying to find that perfect stuffing… similar to my moms, but homemade. She’d always doctor up a box, which was yummy- but…. I wanted to think outside …

potato trees~ a fancy way to dress up your ‘taters It’s nice to get a bit fancy around the holidays… take an otherwise “plain” side dish and present it in a way that people exclaim …

butter mints~homemade version of the melt in your mouth minty buttery treat Butter mints… I have to admit, if I’m at a restaurant and they have a dish of these on the hostess stand, I …

black bean dip~and searching for lost items The other day my in-laws arrived in town. I had an idea floating around in my head to make some black bean dip from this Christmas recipe book. …

el cheapo gift ideas~ an array of inexpensive but awesome gifts! So… I realize that this economy sucks, and mass produced presents are sometimes not as meaningful as you’d like them to be; so here …