Right off the start I will admit that I didn’t go into this recipe with an open mind. I’ve probably mentioned before that I am not really a fan of tomato sauce-y kind of dishes … and with chicken, even less. I actually made up the chicken mixture a day earlier than we ate it, […]

The Barefoot Bloggers selection this month, chosen by Susy of Everyday Gourmet, is Birthday Sheet Cake. We don’t eat a lot of dessert-type foods, and I’m not a cake fan at the best of times, but I decided to make it just for the fun of it, and tomorrow I will share some with the […]

This weeks Craving Ellie in My Belly recipe was chosen by Jessica at Johnstone’s Vin Blanc. I realized as I read through the recipe that although I have heard often of Waldorf Salads, I have never actually made or eaten one! I’m not sure how that came to be … I suppose it is not […]

I seem to be preparing and eating a lot of dishes with peanut butter based sauces these days …. and I don’t mind at all! Trends seem to go in waves in the blogging world. I was thrilled to see that our Craving Ellie in My Belly event this week, chosen by The Tortefeasor, was […]

This will be my first post for Barefoot Bloggers, a twice monthly event that features recipes by Ina Garten (The Barefoot Contessa). The recipe for this period was supposed to be posted yesterday, but a typical pounding jungle storm cut our satelite service for the day, so I’m a bit late. The recipe was chosen […]

Can anyone guess what this is? Hint: its really old and yes, it belongs in the kitchen.

We don’t eat salads nearly often enough. Salads are not at all popular in the jungle. Soups are, surprisingly for this hot climate, almost universally served instead of salads. When salads are served here, they are usually salads that aren’t based on any type of lettuce or greens … salads like carrot salads, beet salads, […]

About 30 years ago I developed a recipe for bran muffins and for carrot cake that were so great that I have not only made them unchanged ever since, but I’ve made them and sold them here in my little jungle community. However, I’ve never tried the carrot cake as muffins, and this recipe for […]

Bread Baking Day is hosted this week by Hefe und mehr.It has been an interesting process preparing a post for Bread Baking Day this month. After a busy month getting back into the “flow”, I began the process late. Then, as I discovered later, I had been reading outdated information, and thinking that this month […]

I wanted to participate in Bread Baking Day (BBD) this month and a week ago I checked online to find the topic and somehow I got the idea that it was “small breads” (now that I look closer, I see that “small breads” was on the menu for August 2008!). So, I made small breads. […]

I began participating in the “Craving Ellie in My Belly” event so that I would be motivated to create and blog at least one new recipe each week … and now I am making these recipes because they are so incredibly delicious! Every one I have tried so far has been a taste sensation at […]

I’m a bit behind on my posting of my Craving Ellie in My Belly recipe this week … the small amount of computer time I can eke out while visiting family and old friends goes rapidly just by checking and answering the most important e-mails. This week’s recipe, picked by Tessa of Handle the Heat, […]

I’ve just discovered “Bread Baking Day” and since I use only home baked breads instead of store-bought (Guatemala is tortilla country), I thought this would be a great incentive for me to play around with different breads instead of cooking the same tried and true recipe week after week. For the month of May, the […]

Fiddleheads are a local delicacy that appears fresh on the market for only a short time each year. They are a type of fern that grows in the shady bogs and marshes in the spring when the water levels of the rivers and creeks goes down. My mother is from the Miramichi River area of […]

A journey to southern New Brunswick would not be complete without a feast of scallops … and although they are sweet and delicious when freshly shucked and raw (the way we used to eat them on the boat when my Uncle John had scuba dived for them) or just sauteed in butter, one of my […]

This is my week to choose the recipe for “Craving Ellie in My Belly” and since I am visiting Mom in New Brunswick, Canada, I decided to make something that would be native to this area and not easily obtainable in the jungles of Guatemala. Something that involved seafood seemed like a natural, so I […]