Chicken, Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pasta |
Chicken Cacciatore with Cubanelle Peppers The other day I took a drawer full of wilting veggies and made the most wonderful all-purpose tomato sauce out of them, it was so good but there was so much of it. That night I used half the sauce to make Garden Vegetable...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pasta, Veggies |
Admit it there has been a day when you have opened the vegetable drawer and realized that there is no way your family is going to finish all the veggies inside that drawer before they go bad. Especially since by the time most of us reach this profound realization the...
Food & Recipes, Salad, Side dishes |
Panzanella or bread salad is a traditionally Italian dish that normally celebrates the bounty of a summer garden: tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and more. It is also a clever and tasty way to re-purpose stale bread. In the fall and winter it feels silly to make a summer...
Chicken, Featured, Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Traeger Grilling |
My oldest stepdaughter is not quite the adventurous eater that the rest of us are but for her birthday I wanted to make a fun and kind of fancy dinner she would like. I found cute little Cornish Game Hens in 4 packs and Costco and decided that these mini extra tasty...
Chicken, Featured, Food & Recipes, Main Courses |
I love nectarines, they are by far my favorite stone fruit but buying them in South Florida is a bit like a box of chocolate, you never know what you are going to get (sorry about the Forrest Gump reference). Many times they go from under-ripe to rotten, never getting...
Chicken, Food & Recipes, Main Courses |
This chicken dinner is one time when being spineless is fabulous. This is a comfort meal if ever there was one. Juicy roasted chicken flavored with fresh rosemary and delicious potatoes that are basted with the chicken’s own drippings as they cook. It is easy to...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pizza, Traeger Grilling |
You can grill pizza on any BBQ, but I just bought a Traeger Junior Pellet Grill and it is awesome for grilled pizza. If you have always loved that little bit of char that wood burning ovens at restaurants can put on a thin pizza crust you need to try pizza on a grill....
Beef, Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Uncategorized |
Grilled London Broil with Drunken Onions My family loves nothing better than a big hunk of meat, so when I find London broil on sale I know it will fit the bill. Marinating and then grilling this large piece of meat results in a beautiful presentation with a nice char...
Food & Recipes, Side dishes, Veggies |
These black beans are a modification of an awesome one pot chicken meal that Emeril Lagasse has in his cookbook: Sizzling Skillets and Other One-Pot Wonders, chicken and black beans with chorizo. I loved the black beans that are the base of the chicken dish but I...
Beef, Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pork |
I have been making the same meatloaf with a sweet and spicy tomato and honey glaze for a while now, and I was getting sick of eating it even if my family was not. Thus I decided it was time for something new: pesto meatloaf. The cup of left over pesto from my last...
Chicken, Food & Recipes, Main Courses |
Around here we love a nice TexMex meal either at home or in a restaurant. Chicken fajitas are one of the favorites, but at $15-$20 per person eating fajitas in a restaurant is always kind of depressing. The chicken is bland or dry and the veggies over cooked, but...
