Regional Midwest Recipes/Seasonal Nana Living
When life hands you over ripened bananas, make banana bread. Can’t you just smell it? No? Come a little closer. Careful. It’s hot. Okay, obviously you can’t actually smell it, but trust me, it smelled amazing. This was tonight’s product of over ripened bananas sitting […]
What’s more Italian than homemade meatballs and sauce? Homemade meatballs and sauce is the ultimate comfort food. If I don’t have it for a while I begin to crave it something awful. When my kids were little, Sunday was usually a consistent pasta day with […]
The Rubik’s Fruit Cube. Have you seen it? More importantly, can you solve it? It’s beautiful! It’s a watermelon, kiwi, and feta cheese appetizer. I’ve been been pulling my hair out trying to google where this originated. I ran into it on a facebook page […]
These orange creamsicle cupcakes brought back memories of me as a child chasing down the ice cream truck to get an Orange Creamsicle. Ohhhh, the nostalgia of ripping open the wrapper on a hot summer day and biting into the cool creamy vanilla ice cream […]
Hydrangea Rose cake and matching cupcakes. Flavor you ask? Pink Lemonade with Raspberry preserves filling and pink lemonade butter cream frosting. Update: 07/17/11. Finally, I’m posting the tutorial on the cake and cupcakes. I had this almost typed and posted once, and it disappeared into […]
Lemon blueberry cupcakes are the perfect spring & summer treat. Layered with a lemon cream cheese frosting sure to make you fall in love with this cupcake. Fruit is synonymous with summer. Don’t you think? On a sweltering hot summer day it’s the perfect relief […]
Ok. How cuuuute are these? Not just because I made them. Because frankly, I found the idea while perusing cupcakes online. That’s what I do in my spare time. Some people social network, some read, some Pinterest, I spend hours upon hours looking for new […]
My boyfriend and I grill about 3 to 5 nights a week. Meat just has a better flavor when it’s done right on the grill. Now that summer’s almost here it’s time to fire up those grills. Living in south Florida it’s always like summer […]
Need a quick last minute summer dessert to take to a party or family get together? One of my absolute favorite summer fruit is strawberries. Luscious and bursting with the juices of summer the only thing that could make it better is chocolate! All you […]
Remember school hamburger gravy? Now you can make it at home ladled over mashed potatoes, just like the classic school house gravy dish the lunch lady used to serve you. Hands down was one of my favorite lunch days at school. School hamburger gravy made […]
I live in sunny South Florida. I'm a middle-aged 50 something mom of 2 grown kids and nana to a beautiful granddaughter and grandson. I love making food from my Pennsylvania Dutch heritage and the regional foods I grew up eating in the Midwest, specifically in the Northeast Ohio Mahoning Valley and Trumbull County area. I love food, cocktails, and social media. In no particular order. To learn more, visit my About page.