Miss Jess is sick and not stepping foot in her kitchen to experiment with more Gluten-free until she can actually taste the results. She’ll be back next week with something I’m sure will be yummo!  In the mean time, here’s my modified version of Guy Fieri’s recipe.  He stuffed the breasts with the artichokes and sundried

Please welcome Nan Dixon,  a two-time Golden Heart finalist and a self-confessed contest junkie.  Her heroines spend a lot of time in the kitchen and therefore so do her heroes.  If Nan’s not typing on her laptop, she’s usually in her kitchen or watching the Food Network.   Nan lives in Minnesota and writes contemporary romance, and has fabulous

We have a new domain name and website:  www.chickletsinthekitchen.com !  We’re still ironing out the wrinkles, but the new site will have far more flexibility and features.  Coming in the days and weeks ahead will be a page with up-to-date grocery coupons available for printing directly from the Chicklets, links to awesome recipe sites, and manufacturers websites.  We’ll also

Cat told me late yesterday that she had a book to give away to a commenter. So guess what, Tina? You’re our lucky randomly-generated winner. I hope everyone had a fabulous Tuesday. I made monte cristo sandwiches for dinner with Thing 1. We didn’t deep fry them or eat them with jelly, but they were

Thank you Abigail and Lis’Anne for inviting me to be a Chick on Chicks in the Chicken, I’m very excited to be here.  Recently, I’ve gone gluten-free. I started it because my sister read something that suggested it could help with migraines. What I discovered is that going gluten-free has helped me a lot more

The chicklets are off to a wonderful little U-Pick farm this morning.  If you have nothing on your agenda today, go to Pick Your Own and find a farm near you.  Scroll half-way down the page for directions on how to use the site. It’s a beautiful day in our neighborhood!  I hope it’s sunny and warm

Loosely translated, this French expression means take a husband and his country comes with him. In my case, this was definitely true when I married into a French Canadian family. I had to rethink a lot of my mother’s style of cooking to adapt to my husband’s tastes. Before we go too far, let me

my stories are in some way related to the Tidewater area. So when Elle Cosimano, an up-and-coming YA Thriller/Suspense writer, invited me to go on a writing retreat with her to a cabin in Virginia Beach, I eagerly agreed. The cabin we rented turned out to be a lodge. And it came stocked with everything

When I picked Thing 1 up from school yesterday, he told me we had to find a dish from Canada to bring to school TODAY for a tasting party. Apparently the sheet that he got last week which explained all this got lost in the depths of his backpack. Each kid picked a country that

Since the only way Husband likes blueberries is in muffin form… you guessed it! I suspect there will also be pancakes in our future. Oh, and oatmeal with blueberries, walnuts, and vanilla. NOM NOM NOM.