Whew, I’m posting this month’s cocktail just in the nick of time! Only one more day of January left. January’s (what’s left of it) cocktail is the Blood Orange Martini. I’d never heard of a blood orange martini until someone on facebook asked about a recipe. That got me searching for […]
Month: January 2012
Healthier Lemon Blueberry Bread
Healthier Lemon Blueberry Bread is made with heart-healthy olive oil, reduced sugar, and enveloped in a lemony glaze. August 2021 Update After buying a bunch of blueberries on sale, I decided to revisit this recipe and give the post a makeover with new photos and everything. I’m not a big […]
Tweaking a Recipe: Chicken & Sweet Potato Stew
I am a recipe “tweaker.” It’s an addiction of which I will never be cured. I don’t want to be cured. I can’t help myself. I take a look at a recipe that sounds good and I immediately start ripping it apart and putting it back together. I guess I […]
Spinach Goat Cheese Muffins
Recipes just don’t come from nowhere. They have to start somewhere. Usually with an another recipe, sometimes two recipes. I started with this recipe for Makeover Rosemary Muffins from Taste of Home. A savory muffin with goat cheese sounded wonderful, especially with soup or stew. But my husband doesn’t like olives. What […]
A Cranberry Pecan Inspired Dinner
I’m always looking for new chicken recipes and I came across this recipe on Food.com. It’s actually a Kraft recipe called Creamy Chicken and Cranberry-Pecan Wild Rice. It looked easy enough for a weeknight dinner and had some of my favorite ingredients: cream cheese, pecans and cranberries. It turned out really good! […]
Herbed Vegetable Quinoa Soup with Swiss Chard
I’m not going to lie, I need to lose some weight. My love for food and sweets has caught up with me. I think I eat a pretty healthy diet, I just eat too much of it. As for the sweets, I just love baking. I think I love the […]
New Year’s Spaghetti Dinner
I’m almost caught up with my blogs. We’re up to New Year’s now! For the past few years we’ve been having an “appetizer dinner” for New Year’s Eve. I got kind of tired of that, so we just had a frozen pizza and a bottle of ChocoVine instead. Hey, it was […]
Cornmeal and the Simple Things in Life
Live Simply print by Karen Tribett, image from allposters.com I love cornbread. It’s probably one of the oldest, most original of American foods. It always makes me think of pioneer days or the old west. It’s a tradition as old as this country. When I make recipes with cornmeal, especially […]
Slow Cooker Turkey and Its Leftovers
Slow Cooker Turkey Breast from Taste of Home I feel like I’m so behind in my blogging! I took a week off between Christmas and New Years. I decided to take a break from work, from cooking, from photography, from pretty much everything. Well, I tried to take a break […]
New Name!
Double Chocolate Banana Muffins from Food.com Welcome to Delicious as it Looks (formerly Cooking and Cocktails with Dianne)! I had this great idea for a blog name about a month after I came up with the Cooking and Cocktails title. I decided to ignore it for a while, but the […]