Rosemary Bacon Potatoes

Rosemary Bacon Potatoes

After years….and years in the restaurant business, you pick up a few tips, tricks, and some really great recipes.

This is one of them……having baked potatoes on the menu in a restaurant you tend to have left overs……what do you do with them??? Rosemary Bacon Potato! At a restaurant I worked at the Chef took left over baked potatoes and made little individual packets of these potatoes. We called them Granny Potatoes at the restaurant. They were a huge hit….folks loved them. Continue reading “Rosemary Bacon Potatoes”

Calico Beans

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We all have a member of our family that always brings the best food to all family gatherings. For me that person is my Aunt Marcella. She always brings the best food! She is know for her homemade bread( which makes the best toast in the whole world) and she always , always has cookies. Everything she makes is homemade and made with love…….and I love her!
Years ago….I’m not sure if she will remember this or not, she used to make this bean dish called Calico Beans. I loved it!!!! Continue reading “Calico Beans”

Bacon Maple Sticky Buns

If I start giving glowing praises to bacon, I would be redundant ………so be it then!

Bacon Maple Sticky Buns

Bacon is well…..delicious strips of juicy pork, fried…..thats right… I said fried….into crispy crunchy heaven, Whether it’s sweet or savory, bacon is a perfect food!

In the not to distant past though bacon had a bad rap.
In the 1980s powerful health and diet trends transformed the food industry. Based on evidence that saturated fat and cholesterol were at the cause of everything from heart health issues,to obesity and cancer. Eating lean became the a call to arms, and fat phobia was born. Continue reading “Bacon Maple Sticky Buns”