Low Carb Pancakes -YUM

Easy 2 ingredients – Low Carb Pancakes!I love this easy, delicious, low carb pancake recipe. If you are on a low carb diet and really miss pancakes you should try this quick 2 ingredients recipe! These taste like banana pancakes with a light airy consistency.Ingredients for 1 serving (2 pancakes):1 egg1 bananaThe directions are just […]

Potato Gnocchi

Chef’s Table at Hearth Restaurant in VA Beach

Great food, fun to watch. Attention to detail elevates the food & your dining experience. Mike took me to Hearth Restaurant in Virginia Beach for dinner several weeks ago. I had been anxiously waiting for the opportunity to eat at this fairly new restaurant known for its wood fired New American cuisine with a southern roots flair. It’s located […]

Love Pizza & Hate Cauliflower?

One of the things I miss most on my low carb diet is bread. But now I have a wonderful substitution to share with you! There are several secrets on the Internet to delicious cauliflower pizza dough and bread, but my altered one is the BEST! Some of the suggestions are true, like making sure […]

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Best VA Beach places to watch the Super Bowl!

2016 Super Bowl 50 – VA Beach! It’s fun going out and rooting for your team with fellow fans and not having to cook or clean-up afterwards. If you want to go out and watch the Big Game in Virginia Beach, I’ve got a list of the BEST places to go for watching the Super Bowl.  Plus I have two […]

Trader Joe’s Overlake Red Wine $5.99

Is it possible to get an exceptional red blend wine for $5.99? That was my question for Trader Joe’s 2013 Overlake Red Blend wine. The Overlake Red Blend is 70% Zinfandel, 20% Syrah, 5% Barberra, 3% Malbec and 2% Petit Verdot.  This is a light red wine, take a look at my photo below. It shows […]

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Virginia WineFest 2016

33 Outstanding Wineries – all the wine you can taste – $30, plus 62 other vendors! This is the best WineFest show I’ve attended at the Virginia Beach Convention Center. I went this past Sunday and was afraid that the Saturday event would have depleted their stock but my fears were cured by the abundance […]

The question we ALL ask ourselves every day…

What’s for dinner? This one question always spurs more, like what’s in the refrigerator? What can I eat that’s delicious, easy and healthy?  It’s usually a verbal ping-pong with Mike until I end up cooking something from my memory database of Pinterest. But sometimes (ok more than sometimes) I don’t want to cook, I want […]

3 Sparkling Wines & Champagne for New Year’s Eve

Want a Champagne or sparkling wine for New Year’s Eve but are unsure of what to buy? My 3 favorite sparklers by taste & sweetness!   True Champagne only comes from the Champagne region in France, but you will see the champagne method used on wines made elsewhere. You can tell the area by the “c”. […]

Spaghetti Squash

AMAZINGLY Delicious :)

I never thought I would say a Spaghetti Squash recipe was amazingly delicious! But this low carb gluten-free dish tastes incredible. I guess it’s all the scrumptious ingredients 🙂  Nothing tastes better than

Christmas Wine Game

Christmas Wine Game 3 White Wines & 3 Red Wines It is always fun to try new wines with a blind wine tasting game. So for all you wine lovers here is an easy tasting game for your holiday party. You can keep it simple by having folks only mark the wines they like and […]