I’m almost caught up with my blogs. We’re up to New Year’s now! For the past few years we’ve been having an “appetizer dinner” for New Year’s Eve. I got kind of tired of that, so we just had a frozen pizza and a bottle of ChocoVine instead. Hey, it […]

  Live Simply print by Karen Tribett, image from allposters.com I love cornbread. It’s probably one of the oldest, most original of American foods. It always makes me think of pioneer days or the old west. It’s a tradition as old as this country. When I make recipes with cornmeal, […]

  Slow Cooker Turkey Breast from Taste of Home I feel like I’m so behind in my blogging! I took a week off between Christmas and New Years. I decided to take a break from work, from cooking, from photography, from pretty much everything. Well, I tried to take a […]

  Double Chocolate Banana Muffins from Food.com Welcome to Delicious as it Looks (formerly Cooking and Cocktails with Dianne)! I had this great idea for a blog name about a month after I came up with the Cooking and Cocktails title. I decided to ignore it for a while, but […]

  I was going to try to write this blog before Christmas, but as usual, things got busy and I ran out of time. So hopefully you can file this away for next year. Or you can still make it now. I think you can still eat holiday food, listen to […]

 I recently decided to purchase my own domain name. While I like the current title of my blog, I thought of an even better one. This one is shorter and catchier, in my opinion, and I’ve been thinking of changing it for a while. I thought the new year was […]

 I ran across this article the today from the Huffington Post: The 10 Types of Foodies. Of course I clicked on it because I know without a doubt that I am a foodie, but didn’t know there were subtypes of foodies! Well, I know I’m not a Snob or a […]

 Dear Reader, Eggnog Russian Since it’s the holidays, I thought I’d take a more personal approach and write this blog post in letter format. Don’t worry, this isn’t one of those braggy Christmas letters. No, this letter is about my favorite things: Food and Drink! So let’s get to the […]

  About a month ago, I got a great idea for a new recipe: Banana Gingerbread. I figured I’d take my favorite banana bread recipe, replace some of the sugar with molasses, add some spices, and I’d be good to go. Not so fast! It turns out the molasses makes […]

  Mom’s Almond Spritz with Frosting As part of the Allrecipes Allstars/Brand Ambassador program, we were asked to participate in Cookies Across America. Cookies Across America is a program to make a difference in your community by donating cookies. While I didn’t have time to host a cookie decorating party, […]

  This isn’t a very long post. I just wanted to quick share my favorite fudge recipe. For years I made an old marshmallow creme recipe and I always loved it. Then I tried a recipe from Nestle for Peppermint Fudge and was really impressed with it. It was made very similarly to […]