Creative Culinary: Needed a quick condiment for sausages in a photo featuring rosemary couscous. Combined brown sugar and whole grain mustard with Traveler's Apple Ale. OK, someone needs to bottle this stat!
Creative Culinary: Pearl Couscous with onion, garlic, rosemary and lemon. So simple. So delicious!
Creative Culinary: French Onion Soup. My favorite recipe from an iconic store in my hometown of St Louis. Good even before the French bread and cheese!
Creative Culinary: I am not allowed to hold him but this is his spot when I'm working. At my feet. Thinking we might have some attachment despite his efforts to show otherwise!
Creative Culinary: Chicken tenders with panko and ghee are amazing. Dipped in sauce of honey, whole grain mustard and Sriracha? No words.
Creative Culinary: Posting on a friend's site this week. Dug out one of my oldest cookbooks and my treasured metal pie tins. There will be bananas, caramel and bourbon...I'm going Southern!
Creative Culinary: Making Dulce De Leche for a favorite old recipe from Southern Living. Have never felt comfortable heating a can of condensed milk in a pot. Mine goes in the oven in a pie tin inside another filled with water so I don't spend an afternoon worrying about
Creative Culinary: Don't let the sweet face fool you; he is sitting next to the third phone charger he has destroyed! Waiting for a treat. Which I gave him.
Creative Culinary: One of those nights. What's for dinner? I don't know, what's in the fridge that needs to be used. Mushrooms, snowpeas and green onion with black truffle butter from @EpicureanButter. Perfect!
Creative Culinary: Homemade Naan for #ProgressiveEats. #ontheblog now!
Creative Culinary: I knew I would struggle with 'builder' plants but thought I was really ready for a smaller yard and less work. I was wrong. The smaller yard I can handle but those 7 measly, boring plants? Now replanted with 25 bushes, grasses and perennials. More like i
Creative Culinary: @spiceroots and I made Homemade Naan and Galauti Kebabs. Finally time to eat!
Creative Culinary: Making homemade Naan slathered with homemade ghee. Amazing! Such fun with my pal @spiceroots.
Creative Culinary: Margarita Pound Cake. Highly addictive!
Creative Culinary: Barbecue Chicken Pizza with Bacon. Um um good!
Creative Culinary: Salted Caramel Bourbon Shake. Sorry you didn't get here in time. ALL MINE!! #ontheblogtomorrow
Creative Culinary: Latest mint julep for #derbyday. Brown Sugar and Vanilla Bean. Crazy good. #ontheblog on Friday!
Creative Culinary: Remember my little buddy Spot? He came to visit with mom. Little guy was tired!
Creative Culinary: Crispy Leeks. Let them not go the way of croutons.
Creative Culinary: The plus and minus of being a cocktail blogger? Plus - Bulleit is delivered at 9:30am in time to use for Friday Cocktail post. Minus - New FedEx guy says, 'Your morning booze fix?'
Creative Culinary: Making a fancy Francois Payard macaroon and chocolate ganache cake for #ProgressiveEats this week. But for the kids? Let's see if they like Mounds Bar Rice Krispie Treats!
Creative Culinary: This. Enough for four. I didn't get this posted yesterday because I was too stuffed to move! Strawberry shortcake from @tedsmontanagrill
Creative Culinary: I'm gone for one day and it's like Boozy Santa was here. My favorite? These Rabbit Chilling Stones for cocktails on the rocks.
Creative Culinary: OMG Salted Caramel Shake. Ice cream, Jack Daniels, salted caramel and whipped cream. Oh yes you will see this on the blog! Soon, very soon. @tedsmontanagrill
Creative Culinary: Canyon Creek Burger with cheddar, bacon, jalapeno, blackberry jam and fried egg. Died and gone to Heaven. I mean Ted's. @tedsmontanagrill
Creative Culinary: Cubanos. Yes I credit @jonfavreau and the movie 'Chef' for why I made these. Gracias Jefe!! #ontheblog
Creative Culinary: Offset Campari's bitterness but don't ruin the complexity? Done and done. Lime, raspberry liqueur and IPA beer. All credit to @pamelawiznitzer.
Creative Culinary: I love the cows near me. They always wave. ;)
Creative Culinary: Testing new @tillamook ice creams for a boozy treat means lots of questions. Cinnamon Horchata with Rum? Salted Butterscotch with Baileys Salted Caramel liqueur sauce? Malted Moo Shake with bourbon? Last but not least? Can I drive??!!
Creative Culinary: Espresso baked doughnut with Baileys Caramel Liqueur and Espresso frosting. Oh My Good!