Monica’s World Famous Chicken Salad

May 27, 2012 by Monica in Bread, Chicken, Entertaining, Events, Salad, Sandwiches, Savory

This chicken salad has been in the making for quite a few years now. When I worked in downtown Miami, many years ago, our offices use to order most of our catering with Perricone’s Marketplace & Café.

And my favorite sandwich in the menu was their World famous Chicken Salad. Their version is prepared with golden raisins, roasted pine nuts, granny smith apples, basil, poached chicken breast and a touch of mayo.

When I moved away, I always missed the sandwich and so, there was nothing to do but try to duplicate it.

And as cooks we know that unless you know the actual recipe, duplications may work against you or for you.

In this case, Perricone’s recipe was a jumping point for my own world famous chicken salad.

Sunday Afternoon Tea Party

May 02, 2012 by Monica in Decorating, Entertaining, Events, Miscellaneous, Sponsor

I believe we should all celebrate more often. Not just weddings, anniversaries, milestones and other major moments, but the everyday opportunities – the change of seasons, a new job or just the fact that I love cake! As I always like to point out, when opportunity knocks, answer the door and offer it some food and drinks!

And knock it did.

A few weeks ago I was approached by the marketing group for Donsuemor and told that they liked my collaboration so much during their “Dessert a day” campaign, they wanted to know if I would be interested in partnering with them once more. They, along with Davidson’s Organics were looking for a few bloggers willing to host a tea party and use their respective products as part of the event.

They did not have to ask me twice. I jumped at the chance.

GCC: Menu 1 - Baked BBQ Wings and Potato Skins with Cheddar and Bacon

October 03, 2010 by Monica in Chicken, Cookbooks, Cooking Club, Entertaining, Gutsy Cooks Club, Main Courses

And the inaugural post for Gutsy Cooks Club has finally arrived!

A couple of months back I decided that I needed a kick in the butt with my savory cooking. I was finding myself baking more and more, but my savory cooking was taking a back seat. I needed an incentive, and thus the Gutsy Cooks Club was born. As of today, we have a total of nine Gutsy Cooks and that talent pool is awesome, I can not wait to see what we cook up.

Some have been blogging for a bit, some started their blog when they joined us, but all of us have the same goal, to cook, learn and to share our experiences. You can too, by going here and seeing the roll call and visiting each of their blogs.

The month of October menu was decided by yours truly, and I got to come clean.With over 1,000 recipes in The Illustrated Kitchen Bible Cookbook to choose from, it was HARD, very, very hard to narrow them down. So I did the next best thing. I simply closed my eyes, open a random page and picked by placing my finger in the page. Where ever it landed, that was the recipe of the week.