Cucumber Bites

I don't know if I have admitted this before, but I am addicted to www.pinterest.com. I am on the website daily looking for new recipes, wedding inspirations, DIY crafts, and much more. 


I was looking for a new recipe and I found one for cucmber sandwiches minus the bread.  I made these for a pot luck, so I decided to do a vegetarian stuffing.  The thing that I learned about this appetizer is that IT MUST BE SERVED THAT SAME DAY.

What you will need:

Cucumbers... peeled and sliced about two inches thick
1 block of cream cheese.. softened
garlic salt
dried dill weed
minced sweet onion
minced red pepper

I took a teaspoon and scooped out the center of the cucumber slices.  I left a little bit at the bottom to hold in the mixture. 

I mixed together the cream cheese, onions, and red pepper.  I added the garlic salt and  dill to taste.   I then scopped some of the mixture into the cucumber slices. 

Just think off all the possibilities with this recipe! You could use chicken salad, crab salad, tuna fish, or add different stuff to the cream cheese mixture!

Remember- these are better the day of your event.  The cucumbers get soft overnight.

As always- stay safe, love one another, and keep cooking.

Gluten Free Peanut Butter Cookies ..borrowed from Becca

Since, I have changed my diet, I haven't been baking much.  This is normally because when I find a recipe that I do like, I do not have all of the ingredients in my cupboard.  When Becca came over Thursday, I was really excited to learn a new Gluten Free recipe.


Here is her Peanut Butter Cookie recipe.  I believe that she got it from www.allrecipes.com, so thanks to the invidiual on there as well.


2 cups of Peanut Butter( 1 crunchy and 1 smooth)
2 cups of sugar
4 eggs

Mix together all the ingreidents and place scoops of batter on a cookie sheet.  Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. 

You can add other nuts and or chocolate chips to the mixture.  Becca and I made chocolate chip designs on our cookies. 


Many people at the pot luck the next day were raving about the cookies.  Maybe Greg will earn back the title of cookie monster again!

As always - Stay safe, love one another, and keep cooking!

Food Allergies

I just have to rant for a second about my allergies.  When I first was diagnosed with all of food allergies, I was happy because I had more knowledge of what was making me feel horrible. 

Normally, we (G. and I ) eat at home and I know the restaurants that have Gluten Friendly options.  It is just really frustrating when you are at a restaurant and you tell them that you are ALLERGIC to iceberg lettuce and then they give you salad made out of iceberg lettuce then garnish your plate with half a head of iceberg lettuce... :(


Oh, the joys of food allergies.  I am working on some new recipes.... I will be posting very soon.

Amazing weekend!

I have shared part of my life with people before, but I have never went real in depth on my blog.  From 1993 to 2004 my parents owned and operated a 11 greenhouses.  My sister and I helped my parents.  While I may not have appreciated it then, I do now.   I feel that with my parents business I gained my work ethic, knowledge about plants, customer service skills, and much more.   I can go to other green houses and tell what a plant is(for the most part) without looking at the tag.

So when Red an Alpha E Active asked me to help her with flower bed in the front of the house, I was ecstatic! We went to Meijer picked up some plants and started around 9:30 am working.  We pulled rocks and garbage out of the soil, added some more soil and nutrients back into the soil, and then used some bricks to edge the flower bed.  Then we planted and transplanted some of the flowers that we in other flower beds. I took out all my stress and aggression on the dirt, but then used my nurturing caring side when I planted the flowers. I had pollen and dirt everywhere and I LOVED it!


I felt like a new calm had taken over and everything was right in the world.  G. noticed this and said "our next home has to have at least one flower bed, because he hasn't seen me this happy".

The four day Holiday weekend is just what I needed.  I did some house work, went to some garage sales, relaxed, played some video games, had dinner with my family, and spent some time with G.   Lately, we have had an amazing time together! This weekend we talked about the future and our "plan" for it!

I have some more recipes coming soon ... I just have to revamp them a little bit!

As always stay strong, love one another, and keep cooking!

My "Food" Inspiration

Martin K. Czeiszperger

Family is very important in my life.  Throughout the years I have lost three of my four grandparents.  My Grandpa Czeiszperger and I were quite close.  He is my food inspiration! Grandpa did most of the cooking in their household and my Nana did the baking.  I don't remember when Grandpa starting showing me how to cook, but I will never forget what he has taught me.

I never liked venison, steak, lobster, roasted cauliflower and etc, but because of him I have took on the life motto of " Try something once, if you don't like it, than at least you can say that you tried it".  He would eat Kimchi (fermented cabbage and what not) and I would smell it and walk away. One day I decided that I would make him happy and give it a shot.  I don't think that I would eat it again, but I can say that I have tried it.

  My grandpa taught me how to make and use a Mirepoix.  This is a mixture of chopped Celery, Onions and Carrots.  Every time he cooked something that required a mirepoix - he wanted me to help him chop the vegetables and put the meal together! I MISS THIS!  I would give anything to have one more conversation, cooking lesson, or just even hear his amazing laugh.


He used to make this spaghetti Carbonara with bacon and my sister and I would lick the plates clean.  He would always try and convince Nana to eat the spaghetti like Lady and the Tramp!   My grandpa was Hungarian. Nana and Grandpa would make Töltött Káposzta or as most people know it Stuffed Cabbage.  When I was younger the only part that I would eat would be the meat balls, I would push all the cooked cabbage off to the side of my plate and let one of my family members eat it.  Finally, I got brave, remembering what Grandpa had always told me, and I ate everything on my plate.  When I found out that I was allergic to beef, I tried making stuffed cabbage with ground turkey as the base of the meatballs and they were amazing!

A year after Grandpa passed away I went for a jog. I was crying and thinking about how much I miss him. As I was doing this, I tripped over a rock about the size of a lemon.   I picked it up and now it sits on the self above my oven.  When I am home alone I talk to it... trying to look for a sign from Grandpa on how to make some thing taste amazing.  Other times... I ask for advice and as creepy as it sounds, I always feel better when I talk out loud about what I need.

  Most of you know that I have gone gluten free, not by choice, but for health reasons. So I went grocery shopping earlier this month and I got Thai Rice Noodles. They have the Gluten Free stamp of approval on the box.   I did some looking online, but none of them sound that good.  I guess that I will keep looking until I find something that inspires me.

So if you have any recipes... let me know!

Stay strong, Love one another, and keep cooking

Good Friends, Good Food and a new recipe

So last Thursday we had friends over and together we cooked an amazing meal.  I cooked my normal, Crab Rangoons, and T. and J. cooked Egg Rolls.  They were amazing, easy, and didn't take very long at all to cook.


1 package of coleslaw mix
4 cloves of garlic -chopped
1/4 cup of onions - chopped
ginger paste - a couple of squirts - to taste
Gluten Free Soy sauce
Dash of salt a
Little bit of water
1 package of egg roll wrappers

Put the coleslaw mix, garlic, onions,  Soy sauce, salt and water in a pan.  On medium heat cook it until the cabbage is soft.  Then add the ginger paste and and mix.  Let it cook for 5 more minutes.

Then put some mixture in your egg roll wrappers and  seal.  You can use either water or egg to seal your wrappers.  We used water.  Then we deep fried them in corn oil.


As we were cooking we realized how many other vegetables and/or meat that we could have put in them.  We are also going to bake them next time so they are healthier! : )  So I think that there is going to be another Egg Roll party at my place. 

As always stay strong, love one another, and keep cooking. :)

I pledge....

I normally say " I can go for a walk tomorrow".  I have started drinking more water in the last few days and last night I felt really good.  After coming into work this morning and listening to the best Pandora station ever(90s pop radio) I have decided that I am just going to get up earlier every morning and go for a walk!    I even wrote it in my planner.


So stay strong, love one another, and keep cooking!