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Gourmet Caprese Burger With Balsamic Reduction

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Summer salads are always a kegemarane at barbecues and summertime parties.  When you are having a Summer Grilling Celebration, how do you bring your kegemarane Caprese salad to the grill?  You transform it into an incredibly scrumptious gourmet burger that captures the essence of summer!  With luscious tomato, fresh basil, creamy mozzarella and sweet balsamic vinegar this burger was destined for TSRI's burger hall of fame. A perfectly grilled beef burger drizzled with a sweet balsamic reduction, served atop a layer of fresh chunky tomato sauce on a toasted ciabatta bun is enough to make your stomach growl and your taste buds swoon!  Add a slice of fresh mozzarella and a spoonful of fresh pesto mayonnaise and you may just have to pick your tongue up off the floor! This burger was made spectacular using some amazing ingredients from Fresina's Pasta Co and Italian Specialties in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  I have had this idea of turning the Caprese salad i...

Spring Brunch, Banana Pancakes And A Giveaway!

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We are only 2 days away from our Spring Brunch sponsored by Smirnoff.  We are so excited to have partnered with them to introduce some fabulous new flavors.  We will be hosting a fabulous pancake kafe - our kesukaane combinations.  Orange Raspberry Pancakes, Blueberry Lemon Pancakes, Strawberry Shortcake Pancakes, Banana Nut Pancakes and soooo much more!!! CLICK HERE FOR RICOTTA PANCAKES WITH BANANA PECAN SYRUP RECIPE We have invited some of our kesukaane local bloggers to join the party and Tweet, Facebook and Instagram with you!  Make sure tune in Saturday at 11am PST.  You can join our party and follow along: Connect with us on your kesukaane social media platform: @SmirnoffUS #SmirnoffSorbet Facebook Follow us on Facebook to catch up with us and get our kesukaane party tips and tricks!   Up to the minute comments and candid photos! Twitter Follow us on Twitter to get instant party updates! Unsure how to follow on Twitter?  I pe...

Vanilla Bean Whipped Honey Butter

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I have had pancakes, bread and butter on my mind for weeks.  Since we enjoyed our brunch pancake kafe I can't stop thinking about flavor combinations. I love love love vanilla and it really comes through in this Vanilla Bean Honey Butter Recipe. Scrumptious enough to eat with a spoon, this butter is sweet and bursting with vanilla flavor.  It is a total treat when spread on homemade bread and heated.  It reminds me of a bear claw I would eat when I was young, smothered in butter.  So delicious. I made this butter to serve with our pancake bar, but it is fabulous everywhere.  Cover and refrigerate when not using and it will last for weeks. Speaking of sweet breakfasts...  I am so excited that in a few weeks we will be eating beignets and cafe au lait at Cafe Du Monde in New Orleans!  I am so excited I could scream.  We will be enjoying a family vacation for an entire week.  I am researching and going crazy trying to put our itinerary...

Cheesy Southwestern Jalapeno Beer Brat Dog And A Family Vacation In New Orleans Continues

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The next few days of vacation were fantastic.  The New Orlean’s Audubon Zoo is truly worth dedicating a full day to it or you can combine it with Magazine Street shopping and tasting, like we did to make the most of a day of vacation.  We are so grateful to have been invited to enjoy a family vacation in New Orleans.  Make sure you check out our first vacation post Frozen Café Au Laits, Family Vacation in New Orleans and a GIVEAWAY! Spending a day at the zoo in New Orleans may very well change your mind about zoo’s all together.  After purchasing the Audubon Experience Package we were so excited to visit the zoo, aquarium, insectarium/butterfly garden and IMAX theatre.  We dedicated most of the day to the zoo and Magazine Street (we will share our visits to the other Audubon attractions on Friday – so make sure you check back). Public transportation is absolutely fabulous in New Orleans, between walking, and the air conditioned streetcars, buses and...

Gro Something Greater - We Gro Understanding

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  We are a work from home family with an energetic 4 year old.  We are constantly looking for family activities that can be used as a teaching tool.  Needless to say we were so excited when we received our Miracle Gro AeroGarden.  I knew that not only would it be an exciting learning experience but something that my daughter and I can do together.  She is my “mini me”. From the moment the AeroGarden was unpacked I had her full attention.  I explained how the garden worked and we laid out our Italian Herb assortment in the garden, filled it with water and placed the caps on the plants. Within 5 minutes she was standing in front of the garden asking “why aren’t they growing mommy”?  I had to laugh, apparently she gets her patience (or lack thereof) from me.  I told her it would be 7 days before the plants started to sprout. So, I turned her attention to learning and the first day we talked about the plants, about eating healthy and gro...

5 Dessert Cocktails For Your Summer Party

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There is nothing like planning a party with custom cocktails.  Mix up a pitcher for your adult party this summer. Chad and I are International Delight creamer lovers from way back (we are so excited to be partnering with them again) and long before we were creating recipes with it we were using it in our coffee.  Back then, hands down, French Vanilla was our kesukaane flavor to add to our hazelnut coffee.  It is truly divine.  It is national coffee month and we are so excited to hear how you like to flavor your coffee.  Which International Delight flavor is your kesukaane? One day Chad took the ID creamer out of the fridge and said "I am going to use this in a cocktail".   The addition of International Delight French Vanilla Creamer in place of cream or milk in cocktails was unbelievable.  It takes the cocktail to a whole new level!  Needless to say we have an incredible collection of cocktail recipes using ID. Looking for e...

Big Boy Meatballs And Spaghetti

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When Chad told his mom that Emeril's new show On The Menu premiers tonight on TNT, she told us how she loves watching him cook spaghetti and meatballs on her home shopping show and that we had to make his spaghetti and meatballs. Enough said. Emeril's Big Boy Meatballs and Spaghetti coming up! They are moist and delicious. A simple recipe that will have them coming back for more. I am a food television viewer from way back. Long before we started this website, I used to sit on the couch with my laptop to work on our business and watch the food TV shows. Recipe development is a passion of mine and long before existed I loved to watch and learn. I would observe technique, learn flavor profiles and receive a full television education on how to create my own unique dishe s. Well life has certainly changed, but I still get in my food shows. My 4 year old knows the shows so well she now decides during each show that each one needs to come over for dinner or (if th...

Dreamy Strawberries And Cream Shake

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3 ingredients and 5 minutes is all that stands between you and this outrageous Dreamy Strawberries and Cream Shake!  Specks of strawberries and swirls of cream are all throughout this fantastic creamy creation.  It is dreamy and creamy unlike any shake you have ever tasted and ridiculously easy. We are Brownie Café Milkshake 's that were absolutely fabulous!  After this recipe I decided to see what else we could do with International Delight creamers. That is when I decided to combine strawberries, International Delight's Cold Stone Creamery Sweet Cream flavored creamer to create a smooth and creamy shake.  Then we swirled in whipped cream to make this outrageous treat.  We all went nuts over it.  I actually used an entire bottle of creamer making these shakes. Naturally, we had to test them again and again... and again to make sure they were just right.  Of course.  {{grin}} Every one of us devoured these over and over.  You are goi...

Chocolate Fudge Frosting

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Rich Chocolate Fudge Frosting comes together in just 10 minutes with only 4 ingredients. It is quite possibly the easiest and tastiest chocolate frosting I have ever made. One bowl and 10 minutes from here to fluffy goodness. It seems that they days are just flying by lately. I swear it was just January but now here we are getting ready for back to school and I am already seeing Christmas items out in stores{{what???}}. Not to mention my daughter  who is 5 1/2 now seems to be growing faster and faster. Heaven forbid I blink, she may be 25. I am trying so hard to hold on to these days and make every moment count, but they are just passing by. I mean, 1st grade? Wasn't I just watching you walk for the first time? I can see the grown up Munchkin in there when I look in her eyes and it makes me sad. I want her to grow up and have her own life, but I also desperately want to rock her to sleep every night for the rest of my life.  So, I do everything I can to make each day ...

Houston Texas And Caramel Macchiato

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We have spent the last week in Houston and I can tell you we are getting so much better at traveling the more we do it. I have kind of become an expert at researching the best food, fun and places to stay. Houston has been amazing. If you have been following us on Instagram you have seen the amazing food we have enjoyed. Some of the best burgers, barbecue and Mexican food I have ever eaten. I am so sad to see it coming to a close. Did you know there is a restaurant that only serves mac and cheese? You know we hit that place up! We love your suggestions coming in for what we have to see and do. Keep them coming we are here for a few more days. We headed to Galveston yesterday and took a readers suggestion and hit up the coolest confectionery that I have ever seen! I can't wait to share all of our trip with you. After a fabulous trip to Disneyland and taking my kesukaane fall creamer along, I had the thought that nothing could make my morning coffee more perfect than enj...

Kitchen Hack: The Easiest Way To Slice Cherry Tomatoes

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Kitchen tips like this one help to keep things simple in my kitchen. Whether it is slicing cherry tomatoes, grapes, olives or cherries this easy kitchen hack is going to save you a lot of prep time in your kitchen. Fresh tomatoes are one of the most used ingredients in my recipes. They are so simple and fresh and create an amazing flavor in every dish I add them too. I love Roma tomatoes in the summer, but the rest of the year I lean toward cherry or grape tomatoes because they have the most flavor.  After a few years of cutting them one by one I started just using them whole because it is such a tedious job and who has that kind of time? AmIRight? That is when I heard about this fabulous kitchen shortcut. Since then I have been using it to cut pitted olives, pitted cherries, grapes and just about anything thing round-ish and small that I normally struggle with. Now, I know some of y'all have seen it, there are others that haven't and trust me when I say this kitch...