Try a delicious take on traditional smoked pecans! This easy-to-follow recipe creates the perfect sweet and savory snack.

Spiced Dry Fruit Cake (Decadent Indian Fruitcake) is a MUST during holiday season. It’s filled with dry fruits like walnut/pecans, dried berries, dried plums, chocolate bits, juice, coffee and leaves you craving for more. To take this a notch up, I’m adding fresh orange rind to just pop the flavors and making it more divine.

Now THIS is how you write up a recipe… don’t the pecans look cute? Head over to the awesomely cool Sketched Out to see it full size, and read the recipe!

Yesterday after a fun-filled 4th of July celebration, I came home and sat down to put my feet up and watch the new Cooking channel.  I had recorded the Indian Cooking show and thought I’d see what they had prepared.    They were featuring  curries, which I love and will prepare some day this week (stay tuned!), […]

While my children are napping and a big pot of gumbo is simmering away on the stove, I’m daydreaming about the creamy dreamy pecan pralines I made earlier today. Tomorrow is Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, and I thought we’d go ahead and celebrate a day early since my husband has to work tomorrow.  In honor […]