Make use of those candy canes this holiday season by sprinkling them on chocolate covered pretzels. Check out my recipe Chocolate Covered Pretzels. In lieu of the sprinkles, just mash up some candy canes. I use the back of a large spoon and mash them inside the plastic wrapper.  Then pour the pieces into a bowl, and follow my recipe. The outcome as you can…

You are at a BBQ and your host flips the cooked chicken with the same tongs he used to flip the raw chicken. You A) eat it anyway, and say nothing. B) don’t eat it, and say something later that night or another day. C) as the host is cooking offer to wash the tongs to help out and at another time mention the dangers…

Vallata, Italy where my family originated As Father’s day is fast approaching, I can’t help but think about my father who passed three years ago. When I was little he used to call me Mariooch, hence the name of my blog “Mariooch’s Kitchen”. He would quite often say, “Mariooch mange cabooch”. I never really knew what it meant as a kid, I thought it was…