Hey Amy!

If you are spending the day at the spa instead of watching the Super Bowl with your family, this recipe is a great one to create in advance.  Or if you want your husband to get in the kitchen, it’s an easy one to begin his culinary career.  Don’t care for clams?  Substitute crab, shrimp [...]

I am not sure about your house but in mine we are on the countdown to the big day…Super Bowl Sunday.  Most homes around our nation will be planning not only where they watch the game, but what they will be eating while watching.  I leave the viewing portion of the day up to the [...]

As many know, I am allergic to shellfish but at one time was not.  I long for those flavors and embrace any recipe that comes close without using the deathly ingredients.  I have shared my ‘fake’ crab cakes previously and today I am sharing a way to savor the flavor of lobster without using lobster. [...]

It’s been awhile.  I have been silent for longer than I wanted to be.  It began as a short break, perhaps a few days to breathe as I plowed through some hiccups in life.  Then the days turned to weeks.  Suddenly, I was being inundated with emails from you, asking where I was.  Thank you.  [...]

I make this recipe with shredded zucchini so I can enjoy it and live.  I am allergic to shellfish and consuming it would kill me.  My mother years ago shared with me a fake crab cake recipe that substituted crab for zucchini and it was delicious.  So now any time a recipe calls for crab, [...]

This recipe is a great beginning to a dinner party.  Bisque of any kind is a light way to begin the meal.  I am never a fan of chowder or something equally as thick and rich to launch a meal.  I never seem to make it to dessert at those meals. As you know, I [...]

I can’t help but pine for all things lobster, crab and shrimp.  As you know by now, I am highly allergic and haven’t always been.  If one has had something and it’s taken away, one knows what one misses.  However, if one never had the taste, it would never be missed.  I miss those creatures [...]