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Big Flavor. Amazing Recipes.
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Thanks for stopping by my blog! I am ALL about a great recipe and BIG flavor. There are over 250 recipes here at Delicious Dishes. Each one tried and true. Keep coming back, this virtual cookbook changes weekly!
Melissa,
I think your photos are great and very helpful! Can’t wait to sample your newest creations!
Get this on Facebook. That we all of us can add it to our sites and get our friends to join. So we can become fans and more people will see.
Congratulations!! Way to go lady!! Have Fun and Kick some booty!!
Missy,
What a great blog! I’m so proud of you and with your simple step by step directions, you might make a cook of me yet!! Love you and miss you.
The recipes look so good it makes me want to cook! The pictures are so helpful. Can’t wait to see even more recipes
Missy, the site looks great! Congratulations! I’ll be trying some recipes, looks like many tasty ideas.
These recipes look great! I, too, NEED recipes. I can’t wait to try some of these dishes! Good luck!
Thank you, thank you for the pictures! I love how you give the step to
step instructions. I know your recipes are wonderful (I already have a few) and I can hardly wait to try some of these. Maybe I will finally get out of my cooking rut.
Brings back great Cal. memories.
russ gentile
Melissa – My daughter, Liz Kennedy, sent me your website – I Love It! This is exactly what I need to get through a recipe – the photography is great – the strawberries are sooooooo appetizing.
congratulation – keep it up.
How fun! I love your website and we plan on making your chicken parmesan tonight.
….I need to post that one!! Let me know how it turns out!
Wooo hoo, welcome to the world of food blogging, hope to see you at Camp!
This sounds like an insanely amazing weekend…..I would love to come!
I got your website through my sister-in-law, Michelle. it looks wonderful…I can’t wait to try the turkey wraps.
Not a comment about your fabulous recipes, but instead a question. When creating dough, like the one you used in your recent pizzas, what “warm place” do you set your dough in to rise? My kitchen has high ceilings and isn’t usually all that warm unless I am baking. I have tried putting it in the oven, but my cool oven is usually a bit cooler than room temperature. I once tried putting a bowl of bread dough to rise near the fireplace in the family room- a stupid choice, I found out, when you have a big dog! Any suggestions or clever tricks?
Yes. The trick is to put a hot bowl of water next to the rising dough. It creates the perfect environment for the dough to rise. Since there is no real warm place in my house, either, the microwave or oven is the perfect small place that can warm up easily with the hot/boiling water. Just don’t accidentaly turn on the oven! However, there will be no pesky animals!
Thanks so much for the Chicken Marsala recipe! You have solved my dilemma . . .now I know what to serve for our dinner party of 18. Do you have a particular marsala wine do you recommend?
Hi Dixie. I’ve made this dish several times for large groups. It is easy to make the chicken and sauce a day ahead of time. Just be sure to keep the chicken and sauce separate from each other. About a half hour before you are ready to serve heat up the sauce, then pour over the chicken. Place the chicken and heated sauce in the dish you are going to serve it out of in a 300 degree oven for about 20 minutes. It should be perfect! I serve it with butter and parslied egg noodles. Enjoy!
Looking for the recipe for the fruit salad with apples, cranberries, almonds, and ramen noodles with a vingarette dressing and cheese sprinkled on top of it.
Andie brought it to a scrapbooking event and said it came from your website but I can’t seem to find it.
Thank you
Sounds like Andie took it up a notch with my greens with bow tie pasta and red wine vinaigrette. She is a little rebel in the kitchen…I love it! I hope this helped, however you’ll have to ask her what she did….then I’ll post HER version! I love imaginative cooks!
Hi Melissa! Steve told me about your website and I LOVE it! I think it’s such a great idea that you post photos of each step. It’s incredibly helpful and I think you’re doing such a great job!
I have a request: is it possible for you to post the recipe of your stuffed mushrooms? They’re so tasty :]
It was great seeing you today! Hope to hear from you soon. Take care
Oh, Melissa…finally I visited your blog and I had such fun reading and picturing you in the kitchen. You have a wonderful gift from God and I love your humor too. See you at Bible Study!
Esther rocks.
Love, Carolyn
Hi again Melissa ~ I’m becoming addicted to your blog. Hey, is it ok to bake your carrot cake in one Pyrex 9 x 13 pan instead of 3 layers? It looks really REALLY good. Dixie
Hi Dixie,
Yay, someone’s reading my blog!
Well, I’ve never baked it in a 9×13, but I can’t think of why you couldn’t. Just increase the baking time and you should be fine. Let me know how it comes out.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Melissa
Missy? Is this you? LOL… Doug Salloway sent me your web site and told me this was you and he saw you on Sacramento TV… write me! You site is great and I’m almost glad you don’t live close in Colorado anymore `cuz I would be even fatter!
You look fabulous btw…
Hi Becky! Yes, this is me, Missy from Lamar. LOL How are you? Glad you stopped by to say hello….keep coming back, I’ve got lots more things to make!
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Hello Melissa,
Saw your segment on Goodday Sacramento the other day, it was great! I did see something on your table that I can not find the recipe for. Stefanie Cruz from Goodday showed a little cupcake on a stick that looked like it was dipped in chocolate. She mentioned that the recipe was on your website but I can not find it. I looked up cupcakes, mini cupcakes, looked in desserts, miscellaneous and just could not find it (am I looking in the right place?) Could you possibly point me in the right direction to where that might be?
Thanks in advance for your help and all the great recipes!
David (from Rocklin)
Hi David,
I just posted those cute little cupcake pops. Be sure to check out the website I mentioned. She has lots of great, creative ideas. Good luck and be sure to let me know if you made these great little pops. Good luck.
Melissa
Hi Melissa,
Thanks for listing that great recipe. Those look like fun to make! I checked out the website too and that is a cool one as well.
I will let you know how they turn out.
David
Hi Sweetie – I just watched you on the Sacramento morning show Doug Sall sent me – he put it on Facebook too for others – you look fabulous and your goodies look even better – so proud of you – You go girl!
Hello Mellisa,
Congratulations !I saw you on KRON4 this morning,and glad to find this web page. The Picture are a great help. I can’t wait to go home and make those scrumtious looking peanut-butter cookie.
Enjoy, and don’t forget to stop by again and let me know how the cookies turned out!
What a great picture!!
Thanks Russ!
Greetings from Ontario,Canada!
I just found your recipe for apple cake w/caramel sauce…I have been long searching for a “heavy white cake” receipe with a poured caramel sauce. I had a babysitter in the early-mid 60′s who used to make it & sadly she has passed on..she was a fabulous cook! Your pics make this look as close as I’ve ever gotten….Thanks!
Hi from Ontario! I’m so glad this recipe is what you have been looking for. My mom made this cake when I was growing up and now my family loves it, too. I hope you enjoy it!
Missy,
Wow, what a great blog. It is wonderful to see that you are working where your passion is in life. I am going to try a few of your recipes. The hardest part looks like it will be trying to decide which ones to start with. Who would of guessed that my favorite student would be on her way to being famous. BTW- Checked out your photos on FB, what a great looking family.
Melissa,
Love all the recipes we get to sample at the office and I am a big fan of your recipes. Hoping you will post the receipe for the pumpkin bread we sampled on Friday Sept. 24th.
The delicious pumpkin bread is coming next week. I spent an entire day in the kitchen yesterday so I have lots of delicious treats in store for you! Thanks for your support!!!!xxoo
Hi! The Golden Beet, Avocado, Walnut Salad looks great so I have to make it tonight! Also, I’m going to try both the Orange Piccata Chicken and Asian Steak with Bell Pepper Stir Fry later this week. I’m planning the whole week’s menu now and then going shopping, so maybe the evenings after work this week will be a little calmer. Wish me luck.
Delicious choices! I can’t even decide which one is my most favorite….they’re all so good. I ate the entire beet salad by myself : ) Good luck this week!
Hi,
I saw you on TV the other day. When I went to your web site I found it very difficult to find the recipe you cooked. The only way to find it, was to know the proper name. It was your Pesto Strata. Not in Breakfast or brunch. Couldn’t remember Strata and so after going through every category on the left list I still had no luck. Finally just by accident I say another recipe called french toast Strata and remembered the name. Is there a way to search all recipes without knowing what you call it.
Thank you
Hi, so sorry you are having a difficult time navigating the site; I am working with my web designer to make things a little easier. The strata that I did prepare on television is in the breakfast/brunch category. Not all the posts appear on one page and you have to scroll back to “older posts” at the bottom of the page to see them all. I did plug in strata and the recipe came up. I appreciate your feed back, I really want my site to be easy to navigate…it just all takes time and money:))
Melissa:
Do I dare cut your French Toast Strata in half using a smaller pan, of course?
I love your pictres and your comments. You really humanize the process.
Thanks,
Stephanie
Hi Stephanie,
Halving the French Toast Strata would be just fine….however, after you taste it you just might wish you had made the entire recipe. : )
Good luck,
Melissa
Melissa:
Thank you so very much for the bread and the information on your website. I love what you have done on this site. Ever looking for a helper with doing your parties, I would love to help. I use to work with two different caterers and loved it.
Melissa, thanks for sharing your cool recipies . Im going to share them with my family. They are food network junkies.
Merry christmas,
Kevin Lockhart, your optometrist.
Mel, beef stew looks wonderful, but i don’t own a crockpot. Can you still do the same thing in a regular pot? If so how long would it have to cook OR would it simply not work? Hope all is well! J.Lou
Hi JL, yes, you can cook the beef stew in a covered pot in the oven. Refer to the Beef Burgundy recipe cooking method and you’ll be just fine! Have that adorable husband of yours buy you a crock pot!
Hello,
I just found your website & it ROCKS!!! Do you have a e-newsletter sign-up for your recipes & info?
Thanks!