Chicken Avocado Quesadilla

I love quesadillas. One of the best things about these little tortilla sandwiches is how adaptable they are. Cheese only. Chicken and cheese. Bean and cheese.  Roasted vegetables and cheese. Potatoes and cheese……
What kind of cheese? The options are endless; cheddar, jack, pepper jack, bleu cheese, fontina, swiss, Parmesan, queso blanco….
In search of an early [...]

Cherie Burbach & 21 Simple Things You Can Do To Help Someone With Diabetes

Today my good friend, Cherie Burbach, author of 21 Simple Things You Can Do To Help Someone With Diabetes, is stopping by Grab A Pan to tell us a little bit about her book. The purpose of the book is to help people who are unfamiliar with diabetes to better understand the disease, in order [...]

Yogurt Pancakes with Chocolate Chips

Have you had the opportunity to check out the Food Network magazine?  The May 2010 issue comes with a little  50 Pancake and Waffle recipes book. My daughter, Sarah, and I were looking at it last night and we decided we’d like to try both the yogurt and the chocolate chip versions. I remembered that [...]

Sierra Nevada’s 30th Anniversary Celebration Brews

I love beer. I live about a mile, as the crow flies, from the Sierra Nevada Brewery and Tap Room. In addition to their well-known Pale Ale, Sierra Nevada carries a number of beers year round including Porter (my favorite), Stout, Kellerweis, and Torpedo Extra IPA. When I go out, I get the Filtered Wheat, [...]

Review: Vega Whole Food Vibrancy Bars

I’m a runner or to be more accurate, a recently re-committed runner. I run mid-morning, when I’ve got the kids off to school, my work email caught up, and Supernatural is on. (I like running while Dean and Sam fight monsters. It’s my thing.) 
Running at this point in the morning can bring up some issues [...]

Korean Tacos

This morning I attended the 6th grade Pancake Breakfast fundraiser at my daughter’s school. While there, I chatted with my friend Kelly about his ramen recipe (recipe and photos to follow at a later date) and asked if he’d ever tried Korean Tacos. He had not. I haven’t either and after seeing a Facebook friend’s [...]

H2Organics Nutrient Enhanced Water: A Review

I’ve tried a few of the new flavored waters out there. Some are tasty, but some too sweet, some are high in calories, which is not something that I want in a water. 
My kids and I got to try some samples of  H2Organics Nutrient Enhanced Water for review. These waters are made with a “multi-filtered [...]

Recipe: Homemade Taquitos

Here’s another recipe that starts with the slow cooker Mexican chicken  that I told you about a few days ago.  If you don’t  have time to make up the chicken in the slow cooker, you can cook 3 chicken breasts (or equivalent amount chicken thighs) on the stove top or use a pre-cooked roasted chicken from your [...]

Mexican Spice Mix Recipe

I love to make  Mexican food. It’s my favorite kind of food. I use a dry spice blend in most of my Mexican cooking. It’s very adaptable. You can use it with chicken broth for an enchilada sauce (add a touch of tomato paste if you like a tomato-y sauce), use it to season taco [...]

Frontera Chipotle Salsa – A Review

Chips and salsa. A classic combination… and one I’m enjoying this evening. Yum.
I picked up a jar of Frontera Gourmet Mexican Salsa in the Chipotle flavor a couple of weeks ago. The salsa was developed by Chef Rick Bayless – he modeled it after a salsa he tasted in Veracruz. It has this wonderful smokiness [...]

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