I love the Tid-Bit Toas-Tite.  I also love pigs in a blanket.  There’s nothing quite like them.  A little bite of food, all wrapped up in a neat little package.  How can you go wrong? Ingredients Pre-packaged crescent rolls Mini sausages (we like the Hillshire Farms Beef Lit’l Smokies, even though they technically make little….cows […]

In high school, I loved making baklava.  I loved working with phyllo dough.  There was just something awesome about the thin sheets you had to carefully handle and at the same time, smother them with butter.  The glorious way they bake up and taste both light and rich at once (although the richness is probably […]

Birthdays are full of presents, smiles, balloons, pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey, and your favorite cake.  For most of my birthdays, my mom has made my favorite chocolate cake recipe – Toney Jepsen’s chocolate cake, to be precise.  Toney was a friend of my great grandmother and her legendary cake recipe has been passed down through the generations.  On […]

A huki huki huki huki hukilau!  That’s right.  Boy and I are headed to Hawaii for a little spring time R&R.  We’re going to play at the beach, do some snorkeling, eat pineapple, and maybe even go to a hukilau.  So in anticipation, we wanted to bring a little island lovin’ to the Toas-Tite. Ingredients […]

There’s nothing quite like a great piece of pizza.  Crustiness plus cheese plus tomato sauce.  Delicious.  So of course we had to try out a Toas-Tite with pizza dough, making a toasty calzone type sandwich. Ingredients 1/2 c. raw pizza dough, divided into two balls 1/2 diced tomato 2 Tbsp. shredded mozzarella Pepper to taste […]

With Christmas trees, stockings, and eggnog all around, Boy and I are getting in the holiday mood.  We’ve been watching all our favorite Christmas movies (White Christmas, Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Carol, Scrooged) and listening to some solid Christmas tunes (like the very excellent 1996 Nordstrom holiday collection – yes indeed, I’ve been listening to […]

‘Tis the holiday season!  With Thanksgiving and turducken Toas-Tites behind us and Christmas a-coming, we find ourselves keeping with the celebratory theme with this week’s Hanukkah Toas-Tite.  So with a l’chaim and a happy Hanukkah (particularly to Girl’s step mom, little sister, and sister-in-law), we give you latke Toas-Tites! Hanukkah (or anytime) Latke & Applesauce […]

Today we’re taking a little break from our Top Toas-Tite series to bring you a special Thanksgivingy Toas-Tite for those of you who still have a few leftovers in the fridge (like we do). Boy and I spent a lovely Thanksgiving with my brother and his new wife in their home, along with her wonderful […]

For our third Improv Toas-Tite, we had the words warm, seafood, and blue.  Blue is a tough one.  There aren’t really that many blue foods.  Sure, there are blueberries…blue corn chips…needless to say, strictly “blue” didn’t leave us that many options.  Toas-Tites are also naturally warm.  So that wasn’t terribly tricky.  But now seafood…we couldn’t […]

For our second Improv Toas-Tite in honor of Top Chef, we had the words green, sweet, and fruit.  There are a lot of green fruits – kiwi, honeydew, avocado…but how many would do well heating up in a Toas-Tite with some kind of sweetness?  We decided to go a little more conservative on the green […]