Just showing off some things I made recently for the once a week get together we have here. Made two kinds of crostini from some rolls I previously made that I kept in my freezer. Some are topped with onion goat cheese with fresh scallions. The other crostini it topped with my fresh pesto, fresh marinated mozzarella and tomatoes, balsamic, and basil.

Next to that are sweet potato hand pies.

Here are cannoli (home made ricotta & home made shells) and more crostini with basil, pesto, marinated mozzarella cheese, balsamic, and parmesan

For the next gathering I made cookies and had leftover cannoli shells and cheese so I also brought some cannoli. The cookies were butter cookies, chocolate chip cookies, pistachio cookies, and peanut butter with strawberry jam cookies.

Made Brownies and Hasselback Potatoes with smoked mushrooms and crispy onions.

Spiced (5 spice & cinnamon) Butternut Squash filled crepes and bread crisps with spinach artichoke dip.

What I made this past month for gatherings and parties.

Just showing off some foods I made lately.

Up above are deviled eggs.

Above are Pate A Choux Pastries filled with vanilla cream topped with chocolate, chocolate pots de creme, and a cherry

These are what I call potato stuffed potatoes…..Basically mashed potatoes with an egg piped into hollowed out baby potatoes or parts of regular potatoes.

Brown Butter Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookies

Thought I’d feature some oldies but still goodies.

The FORKING Truth is that Facebook & Jetpack (a WordPress Plugin) wants a LOT of Money from food bloggers that don’t make a dime on their blog.

Recently I published a story on BBQ Mexicana. Facebook suggested me to pay them $91. for 385 views…….

Everyday they ask for a different amount of money for a different amount of views.

A few days latter-

Facebook asked for $168. for 11,149 views.

Then on another day-

Facebook asked for $147. for 15,465 views.

Jackpack doesn’t really ask for money on a daily basis but periodically they upset me.

Sometime in the last year or two I wasn’t able to “Like” other people’s blogs. They said I ran out of “free” likes and needed to pay them another $200. yearly to like other people’s blogs. Since I couldn’t “like” other people’s blogs many of those people stopped liking my blog. But also many of those people also discontinued their blogs…(I wonder why….only kidding)

I don’t know why or how but sometime latter I was able to “like’ blogs again but most of my old “blogger” friends are long gone now.

Now Jetpack wants more money from me again. They want $4.50 monthly so I can view my statistics.

I figure this is the reason why most people are switching to Pod Casts, You Tube, and Tic Tok.

I have to tell you I AM JUST SICK OF THIS! ……..(Thank You for listening…I feel slightly better now)

And this is what Facebook wants today.

And that’s The FORKING Truth

I make pizza and focaccia pretty often and everyone loves them. Today I made something different. PUMPKIN Pizza….to be exact Kobocha Squash Pizza. \

The topping went something like this-

1 roasted kobocha squash – skin, seeds, membranes, removed and the flesh mashed

2 tablespoons butter -mashed into the squash

2 tablespoons honey mixed into the squash

a pinch of iclmi togarashi mixed into the squash (this is very strong make sure you only use a SMALL pinch)

one apple sliced with core removed (maybe slightly less than a quarter inch thick Roasted with 2 tablespoons butter

2 tablespoons butter for roasting the apple.

pinch ground cinnamon to season the apple

a wedge of Appenzeller Cheese (a Swiss type cheese…looked like 5-6 ounces) cut in 1/4 inch slices

sage leaves

sprinkle olive oil

A little sprinkle of gruyere and parmesan for finishing

sea salt

pepper

Just bake this on to your pizza dough I did mine at 550 F for around 6 minutes but that was on a crust I just baked.

Even my husband said that this was very good.

Enjoy!!