Food & Recipes, holidays, Main Courses, Pork |
This is a special meal, my bacon wrapped pork loin stuffed with walnuts and rice will rival anything you can find in a restaurant, use it to impress friends and family without killing your budget. The ingredients are humble and easy to get, and if butterflying the...
Appetizer, Dips and Sauces, Food & Recipes |
Six Fresh Salsas and Guacamole I lived in Texas for almost 10 years and when I left I learned that the fresh tomato salsa I got in every local Tex-Mex restaurant was a luxury that I could not live without. I set out to create not only a good basic salsa that I could...
Cookbook Conservation, Uncategorized |
My First Cookbook Conservation, Part II (read part I here) So now that I had re-discovered this treasure trove of good food and family history it was time to decide how to give it life again. First I decided it needed to retain its original look, so just retyping all...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pasta, Seafood |
For a date night dinner its hard to beat scallops and prosciutto over capellini pasta, its quick and easy and you have a great reason to start date night off with champagne toast. I think the little bay scallops that you can get frozen are a nice convenience seafood:...
Food & Recipes, How To, In the Kitchen, Veggies |
This time of year in Florida garlic is locally grown, fresh and cheap so I will be roasting garlic almost every week. When I roast garlic I do at least 4 or more heads because it tastes wonderful on bread or in pasta. It also makes a beautiful addition to an...
Food & Recipes, Salad, Veggies |
The creation of this grilled salad was the result of a strange collection of leftovers in my refrigerator: grilled veggies from dinner the night before, a tiny bit of pesto, and a bunch or sad looking roma tomatoes that needed to get used up. I am glad my less than...
Food & Recipes, Veggies |
I love grilled veggies, I love asparagus and we all know that cheese makes everything better. I have been seeing the large asparagus spears in the grocery store a lot recently and they were so tempting that I had to buy a package and play with them on the grill. I am...
Chicken, Food & Recipes, holidays, Main Courses |
For Christmas Eve this year there were a number of requests to not serve ham or turkey or prime rib but to do something a little different. I had a sudden idea that Cornish Game Hens with apricot and date stuffing would be fun since I only had 6 for dinner. Using a...
Food & Recipes, Side dishes |
Ten years living in Texas you are invited to a lot of pot-lucks and BBQs so you better have a go-to covered dish that a cowboy or a Dallas diva will enjoy, mine is Blue Cheese and Green Onion Grits. These grits are the prefect pot-luck dish, yummy hot or at room temp...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Soups & Stews |
Since I was a kid my one of my favorite holiday meals was the split pea soup that my mother would make after the party from the leftover ham bone. It is comfort food, a one dish meal that makes the whole house smell good and to me it tastes like the holidays. My...
