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Grilled Hatch Chili Mustard Coated Bacon Wrapped Shrimp with Dill Mustard Dip

June 9, 2013 by Candace Reid 1 Comment 723 views

I was recently chosen as one of only 25 bloggers to try new flavors of Saucy Mama mustards and create a unique recipe. I had to make an appetizer and it had to have BACON! And of course the mustard. I chose to use the Hatched Chili mustard as the main flavor. It didn’t take me long to decide on what I wanted, and that was a couple of delicious bacon wrapped shrimp. With the saucy addition, it made a powerful impact! I made a super easy recipe that will make a good 14-15 shrimp, depending on size. Heck if [...]

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Friendship Dairies Debuts Free Sample Food Truck with Rocco DiSpirito {Giveaway}

May 15, 2013 by Candace Reid 19 Comments 482 views

Rocco DiSpirito is going to be handing out some delicious free samples from Friendship Dairies (located on Eastern Seaboard) and if you are lucky and get to try some, here is what will be dished out! I wish i lived in the east, so many great chefs over there! The mobile mixer truck will be serving free 5-ounce Friendship Fit to Go™ 1% Low Fat, 1% Low Fat Pineapple, and 4% Regular cottage cheese samples. Taking a more innovative approach to traditional toppings, Friendship is offering mix-in options including Instant Wasabi and Granola Glee. Chef Rocco DiSpirito brings two new [...]

Filed Under: Brands, Food

Peaches and Cream Tartlets with Grandma Hoerner’s Natural Pie Filling

April 5, 2013 by Candace Reid 2 Comments 7,259 views

When an old blogging buddy asks me if she can send some delicious all natural pie filling for me to try and talk to my readers about, I of course will say yes. Not because it is pie filling but because this great person has been a blogging friend of mine for a long time and knows that not only am I an aspiring chef but also that I much prefer organic and real food. Grandma Hoerner”s is a company that applies home cooking logic to providing delicious goods to the consumers. They cook things like jelly’s, pie fillings and [...]

Filed Under: Brands, Desserts, Featured, Tasty

Calphalon and an Iron Chef

March 15, 2013 by Candace Reid 4 Comments 739 views

When I was at the International Home and Housewares show last weekend, I had the pleasure of being invited to a private party being held by Calphalon. Now let me stop you right here and tell you that Calphalon is THE MOST FAVORITE brand that I work with but also my FAVORITE cookware by far. I’ve reviewed a lot of cookware in my nearly 4 years of blogging but my Calphalon cookware still reigns supreme! (right align pic of badge) Before other guests arrived I got the honor of meeting and talking to chef Symon and he is just so [...]

Filed Under: Celebrity Chefs, Food, Travel

Ain’t No Party Like A Cake Boss Party…

March 15, 2013 by Candace Reid 2 Comments 714 views

Last weekend during the International Home and Housewares show in Chicago, I had the esteemed pleasure to be invited to the private party featuring the launch of the new Cake Boss “Cakeware” line. This is a line, launching this summer, is made for people like me, the home chef trying to break into the professional side of being a pastry chef. Baking pans and fondant tools are center stage for this collection. When I was at the party we got to hear inspiring words from a surprise guest, Rachael Ray! And she introduced the one and only Buddy Valastro! Later [...]

Filed Under: Food, Travel Tagged With: Celebrity Chefs

Food for The Croods – Coming To Theaters March 22nd

February 25, 2013 by Candace Reid 7 Comments 2,018 views

If you want to know which movie will be the must see movie this Spring, then look no further… THE CROODS is coming to theaters March 22nd!!!! Dreamworks Animation’s The Croods is a 3D comedy adventure that follows the world’s first modern family as they embark on a journey of a lifetime when the cave that has always been their home is destroyed. Traveling across a spectacular landscape, the Croods are rocked by generational clashes and seismic shifts as they discover an incredible new world filled with fantastic creatures — and their outlook is changed forever. The film stars the [...]

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My First Cake Pops

February 12, 2013 by Candace Reid 5 Comments 804 views

Inside Valentine's Day Cake Pops Serendipity Mommy

I know, I know, I am way behind the curve of the cake pops trend but what can I say, I try stuff when I am good and ready, LOL I recently bought a Babycakes Cake Pop Maker from Younkers sfter a couple food blogger friends of mine said they really love it. Knowing I didn’t want to make them by hand with frosting etc. I FINALLY gave in and got me one and I do like it! It is very easy to use but the only thing I don’t like is that the round shapes look more like a [...]

Filed Under: CAKE Tagged With: Baking, Cake Pops, Valentine's Day, Wilton

Surprise Inside Valentine Cupcakes

January 27, 2013 by Candace Reid 11 Comments 8,986 views

This delicious post is going to be a little different. I wanted to share a decorating cupcake post as opposed to a recipe for cupcakes since A) I already have shared my go-to scratch recipes for cake and B) I am trying a new direction, sharing tips with you that will involve time savers. In this instance? Cake mixes and frosting flavor. All you need is the extras to make the cakes and patience. I used my regular butter cream frosting recipe but used 1 cup of shortening instead of 2 sticks of butter. Cake mix flavors were French [...]

Filed Under: CAKE, Food, Recipes

Rudi’s Organic Bakery Toast-A-Gram Giveaway

January 9, 2013 by Candace Reid 589 Comments 6,243 views

Rudi’s Organic Bakery has launched a fun new Facebook App that lets you create your own face in a piece of toast. You know, like when they found Elvis’s face in toast? Same idea only you can send your toasty face to your friends on Facebook! And check out my toast! Its my kids! In celebration of the new year, Rudi’s asked me to give away a fantastic prize pack! This prize pack is worth $100 and includes: Toaster, Bread Box, Stonewall Kitchen Red Raspberry Jam, Rudi’s apron, Justin’s Chocolate Hazelnut Nut Butter To enter this giveaway: Leave me a [...]

Filed Under: Current Giveaways, Food

Cupcake Cuteness with New Cool Whip Frosting

December 22, 2012 by Candace Reid 345 Comments 5,782 views

Super cute, right? I recently was asked to try the new COOL WHIP Frosting and because we always order cakes with that topping I was excited to know that they are now packaging the good stuff to sell to me! The flavors are chocolate, vanilla and cream cheese…holy yum! I grabbed what I saw at my store, chocolate and vanilla I saw the cutest Wilton holiday cake decorations so I snagged em. One was what they called a hot coca set with a candy-like snowman that is supposed to float in hot cocoa. This gave me the idea to make [...]

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Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls with Spiced Ginger Icing

December 6, 2012 by Candace Reid 39 Comments 2,687 views

As a food blogger I get many offers to try new things. Never in my life had I even HEARD of whole wheat stone ground PASTRY flour. I know my flours, my start in culinary school was in a baking class. Nevertheless, Hodgson Mill asked me to come up with a recipe using their flours. I couldn’t quite figure out what I would make but decided to use my regular cinnamon roll recipe and add a few ingredients As i was waiting for my rolls to rise I took the time to look at the packaging and ingredients. I knew my flavors [...]

Filed Under: Desserts

BLACK FRIDAY DEAL: Cook’n Recipe Organizer Software 75% Off!!

November 23, 2012 by Candace Reid 1 Comment 1,399 views

I was lucky enough to receive a copy of Cook’n Recipe Organizer software as part of my swag from Brandcation, Pensacola. This software is perfect for the chef in the house that studies and saves hordes of online recipes, because it has a nifty feature that lets you plug in the URL and it will pull the recipe into the software for you. You can add your own recipes by hand too. I LOVE this software for use at home. As you can imagine, 2 years in culinary classes and business classes I have a nice collection of recipes started [...]

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