This cake recipe was submitted to Tasty Kitchen by Tanya Hollas, and the second I saw it I knew I wanted to give it a try someday. I mean…cake? With tomato soup? How delightfully different and rebellious. Here’s how it went down.   Here’s what you need: Tomato Soup (yes, you heard me), flour, sugar, [...]View Post →

  This week, our featured member is Rebecca, who not only is a food blogger but also a part-time cooking teacher, occasional caterer, a writer of a food and family column for the Traverse City Record-Eagle, an avid do-it-yourselfer in the kitchen (as evidenced by her Homemade Cultured Buttermilk seen above), and a homeschooler of [...]View Post →

  If you celebrated Easter this past Sunday and served a centerpiece ham, you must have leftover ham sitting in your fridge. By now, you’re probably a little tired of the usual: ham sandwiches, egg ‘n’ ham, ham casserole, etc. Or perhaps you’ve already banished the remaining ham to the freezer?!   So yesterday, Erika [...]View Post →

April is National Grilled Cheese Month. I think you’re all with me in thinking there aren’t enough excuses to celebrate any concoction that involves gooey, melted cheese and something buttered and slightly crunchy. So today, we’re all about grilled cheese sandwiches in various forms. And since they’re traditionally served with a nice bowl of tomato [...]View Post →

I first made Tasty Kitchen member The Noshery’s Individual Scalloped Potatoes during a day last year when I had some guests over to cook. We selected two Tasty Kitchen recipes to make together (you can read about the fun here) and wound up loving these nifty little layered potato dish, made in muffin tins. So [...]View Post →

Today we’ll meet a lovely young lady with a desire to cook quality food (like the Rosemary Thyme Spread in the photo above) for her family of seven: her dad, mom, three sisters, one brother, and herself. She’s not only multi-talented and generous with those talents, but as a bonus, she also has quite the [...]View Post →

  Many of you who are the organized, early planners probably have your Easter feast all figured out already, down to napkin colors, wine selection and which unlucky person has to sit next to crazy Uncle Teddy.   Then there are some of us who frantically throw things together at the last minute, hopping around [...]View Post →