For #TastyTuesday let's talk about eating around the world! Are you adventurous when it comes to your cuisines? I am...to a certain extent (no organs, no insects, no body parts...). So today let's talk tasty ethnic foods. These days, with the variety of restaurants and the variety on the grocery store shelves you can try ethnic foods and expand the worldview of your taste buds!  If you like to cook and like to try out new recipes, try out one of the ones on the link below. Or check out the many ideas on Pinterest.   Click here If you don't like to cook or don't feel brave enough to try cooking an international dish hunt down a restaurant in your local area to visit and try.

Comfort food! On this #TastyTuesday let's dish about comfort foods. I think most people have sweet ones and savory ones. I think it would be fun to have a get together where everyone brings their favorite comfort food to share. It would be such a random assortment of foods but it would be fun to enjoy them together! If it helps you to feel better about indulging in comfort foods here are some single-serving ideas... Click here

DIY mixes from scratch are more tasty than the stuff you can buy in the stores that have ingredients in them that you can't pronounce. Now I'm not making these mixes, I'm lazy, but I have thought about them. When I do buy a mix of something (cornbread, etc) I spend a lot of time reading the labels and purchase the one with the least amount of unintelligible ingredients - and there are the times I can even find mixes that have all okay ingredients! But back to DIY. Not only does DIY save money but it gives a fresher - tastier - flavor to your foods. I've often thought about whipping up baking mixes to have on hand so that when I'm struck with the mood to bake half the "work" is already done, maybe today - in honor of #TastyTuesday - I'll do just that! Here's some mix ideas which basically means I just did the Googling for you. *wink* All-Purpose Baking Mix (this can be used for any recipe calling for a biscuit mix - such as Bisquick) ...

In the summertime I love salads. And I love tasty dressings on those salads. So today let's talk tasty dressings. I confess, I'm lazy. I could make my own tasty dressings from scratch but well, as already confessed, I'm lazy. But I'm going to ditch my laziness and try to make some dressings from scratch. There's always the classic Ranch .  Good for veggie dipping, french fry dipping, and salads too! Lemon Vinaigrette   This one makes my mouth water just by reading the name of it. Blue Cheese Dressing   Blue Cheese is a favorite of mine, yuuuuuummmmmmmm. Honey Mustard Dressing / Vinaigrette Honey Mustard is a favorite of mine for chicken sandwiches/nuggets/tenders and I even like to dip my fries in it too! Well, and of course salad. *grin* Do you have a favorite dressing? If so, have you ever made it from scratch? I found this list of the 10 essential salad dressings Kitchn says we all should have. What do you think about the ones listed? Are there any y...

Got spices? One of the easiest, and best, ways to make food tasty is spices. I didn't understand this when I started cooking on my own. Salt and pepper were okay - maybe even Italian seasoning but anything past that was just too crazy for this chick to consider! Years ago - in what was, I believe, a totally different life - I sold Tupperware. And Tupperware had a few recipe books, one of the recipes I made and we loved it. But it called for this weird spice named "cumin" and I was like, "Uh, no." And we liked it fine without it. I had never tried this spice and I felt no need to go beyond salt and pepper. Then one night I made the recipe for company coming over and on a whim I decided to try the cumin. MIND. BLOWN. I couldn't believe I hadn't used it before. What was I missing by not using spices? So from that moment on when a recipe called for a spice I tried it. And a whole new world - of flavor - opened up to my fam and I. So #TastyTu...