Appetizers
- Baked brie
- Brie stuffed mushrooms
- Buffalo chicken wing dip
- Chorizo, bean and cheese nachos
- Flatbread pizza with arugula, goat cheese, roasted red peppers, zucchini, mushrooms, and truffle oil
- Garlic knots
- Pizza dip
- Taco bites
- Toasted baguettes with goat cheese, basil, and shallots
Soups and salads
- Arugula and grapefruit salad with shallot vinaigrette
- Broccoli cheddar soup (Panera style)
- Chilled berry soup
- French onion soup
- Matzo ball soup
- Mixed greens salad with goat cheese and strawberries
- Potato and cheddar soup with bacon
- Roasted garlic and brie soup
- Taco soup
Main Courses
- Bacon wrapped beer can chicken
- Bacon wrapped chicken breasts stuffed with goat cheese and spinach
- Best damn vegetable lasagna ever
- Buffalo chicken macaroni and cheese
- Cajun grilled burgers
- Cajun grilled salmon
- Grilled lamb chops with tangerine-rosemary rub and grilled vegetables
- Grilled sirloin steak with blue cheese-chive butter
- Fried chicken with cayenne and paprika
- Jambalaya with shrimp and andouille sausage
- Low-fat spinach fettuccine
- Moroccan chicken
- Pasta with goat cheese sauce, chicken, mushrooms, and asparagus
- Pasta with roasted butternut squash, sage, and creamy pumpkin sauce
- Pepperoni pizza ravioli
- Plank grilled salmon with garlic basil butter
- Pizza dough
- Popcorn chicken
- Portobello mushroom burgers with chipotle mayo and onion rings
- Pulled pork with beer
- Sauteed salmon filets with onions and lemon cream sauce
- Spaghettios pizza
- Spinach and artichoke pizza
- Steak au poivre
- Sweet and Spicy Chinese takeout chicken
Side dishes
- Asparagus with French vinaigrette
- Bacon wrapped asparagus bundles
- Baked artichokes with lemon and basil
- Cajun grilled veggies
- Cauliflower mashed potatoes
- Comfort food broccoli casserole
- German potato salad
- Herbed fingerling potatoes
- Spaetzle dumplings
- Vegetable lo mein
Desserts
- 4th of July layered berry cake
- All grown up cupcakes: chocolate and dark beer cupcakes with irish cream frosting
- Amazing ginger cookies
- Banana bread
- Biscoff cupcakes with biscoff buttercream
- Brain cupcakes
- Cake batter rice krispies treats
- Candy cane cupcakes
- Candy corn sugar cookies
- Chardonnay white bundt cake with chardonnay glaze
- Chocolate covered peanut butter stuffed pretzels
- Homemade zebra cakes
- Monkey bread
- Peach crisp
- Peppermint bark
- Pumpkin spice cookies with cream cheese frosting
- Turtle sugar cookies with buttercream frosting
xylito
First off I want to say fantastic blog! I had a quick question that I'd like to ask if you do not mind. I was curious to find out how you center yourself and clear your head prior to writing. I have had trouble clearing my mind in getting my thoughts out there. I do enjoy writing but it just seems like the first 10 to 15 minutes tend to be wasted simply just trying to figure out how to begin. Any ideas or tips? Thank you!
Sarah @ a Dash and a Pinch
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you like the site. As for your question...well, that's a doozy. I have always been a "writer" of sorts, but only when my brain feels up to the task! As a result, I have typically done my best writing at odd hours (my novel was mostly written between 8pm and 2am). As for blogging, I sometimes find myself stumped when starting a post. I find that it helps to organize my pictures before I begin, and sort of get an idea of what I want to say. It helps me recreate how I felt when I made a certain dish, or tried a new food...I just do my best to bring the flavors alive on the page.
I hope this gives you a little bit of an idea as to my method, if you have any more questions or want to talk more, let me know!