Peppercorn Crusted Filet Mignon with Balsamic Red Wine Sauce

Peppercorn Crusted Filet Mignon with Balsamic Red Wine Sauce

We splurge on filet mignon a few times a year, it’s the most expensive cut of steak because it’s incredibly tender and you can only get about 9 filets per cow. Instead of buying the filet mignon piece by piece, we always get the entire tenderloin and spend the time to...
Chocolate and Coffee Cupcakes with Coconut Frosting

Chocolate and Coffee Cupcakes with Coconut Frosting

A couple of months ago, I asked Julie of The Little Kitchen for recipes involving coffee and she responded with a very enthusiastic, “YOU MUST MAKE THESE CUPCAKES!”  As if her insistence wasn’t enough to convince me, her recipe was titled,...
Steak with Whiskey Mushroom Sauce

Steak with Whiskey Mushroom Sauce

For our family, if there ever was a PERFECT cut of steak, it would be the bad-boy Porterhouse steak. It’s big. It’s massive. One giant hunk will feed our family of four. But before I get into our love for Porterhouse (because I’ll get carried away...
Fish with Citrus Caper Sauce

Fish with Citrus Caper Sauce

We planted a few citrus trees in our backyard 7 years ago, but shhhh….don’t tell anyone in my neighborhood watch program because technically us homeowners in this lovely planned community are not allowed to plant anything that’s not on THE LIST OF...
Baked Jalapeno Bacon Poppers

Baked Jalapeno Bacon Poppers

It’s taken me thirty-ahem-something years to try a jalapeno popper for the very first time. Poppers have always been one of those things that just didn’t seem so appealing – I blame it on bad crab rangoon, which has certain similarities to the...