Share Your Recipes and Win a Cookbook! I hope you are enjoying the recipes at Good Food Good Friends. I love cooking and sharing my recipes.  In fact I spend a great deal of time combing through cookbooks, magazines and the internet looking for great recipes and ideas. Blogging is lots of fun and a [Continue...]

These Grilled Prosciutto Wrapped Dates Stuffed with Goat Cheese are delicious and easy to make.  If you like you can prepare them ahead of time and just before your guest arrive grill them up. Ingredients: 12 dates, seeds removed 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar Crushed red pepper flakes 12 slices prosciutto 1/2 log goat cheese Extra-virgin olive oil [Continue...]

I love this Steamed Wild Striped Bass with Ginger and Scallions recipe.  It’s so easy to prepare and full of flavor.  I first made this recipe adapted from Food & Wine magazine a year or so ago.  I like to add fresh vegetables such as asparagus and shiitake mushrooms to make this a a one skillet meal.  After over indulging [Continue...]

I have been making this Pan Roasted Filet Mignon Stuffed with English Stilton and Walnuts from Emeril’s TV Dinners: Kickin’ It Up a Notch with Recipes from Emeril Live and Essence of Emeril for many years.  It’s a Christmas Eve favorite!  Also perfect for New Year’s Eve.  I like to serve this with a nice spring mix [Continue...]

These dreamy Bisquick cinnamon rolls are easy enough to make any day but special enough for Christmas morning.  Prepare them the day before so that you are sure not to miss a moment of Christmas morning. Ingredients: 2 tbsp sugar 1 tsp ground cinnamon 2 1/2 cups biscuit baking mix 2/3 cup milk 2 tbsp [Continue...]

I have just found this great new website where you can create lists of your favorite resturaunts or ones that you would like to try.  You can also write reviews about them.  The best part is that you can then share them with friends and see which are your friends favorites too!  Check them out at smorgie.com [Continue...]

I make lots of chicken wings during the football season, but they are usually of the buffalo varity.  These sticky chicken wings will remind you of your favorite chinesse buffet.  They are sweet, a little bit spicy and of course, sticky.  They come together fast, so they are perfect for last minute get togethers Ingredients: [Continue...]

The olives and feta cheese in this Greek Pasta recipe make it salty and creamy, along with the warm tomatoes and garlic make this an unbeatable combination. Ingredients for the Greek Pasta: 1 1/2 pounds tomatoes (about 3), seeded and cut into 1/2-inch pieces 1/2 cup Kalamata or other black olives, pitted 1/4 pound feta cheese, crumbled 3 [Continue...]

I love when you can put your single use appliance to a new use!  Have you ever thought of using your waffle iron to make brownies…. probably not.  But now that you have had a chance to let that idea run through your brain, I bet your mouth is watering.  Here is my favorite Fudgey Brownie [Continue...]

With so many make-up choices and so many promises to make you your most beautiful you out there, sometimes it can get very confusing as to what your best choices are. Everytime I do an internet search for advice, all I ever find are websites promoting their own products.  But I found this great new website that reviews all [Continue...]

Thanksgiving is the mother of all holidays when it comes to food.  We plan for it for months.  We talk about it for weeks.  And if you are successful with you meal, your guest will talk about it for days.  In honor of Thanksgiving, please join me, the Food Network and lots of other foodies at [Continue...]