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...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Seafood, Uncategorized |
Living in South Florida we are lucky to often receive gifts of freshly caught fish from friends and family that are successful fisher-persons. As a native Floridian I know that you graciously accept the gift then wait until you get home to see exactly what you have,...
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...
Chicken, Food & Recipes, Main Courses |
After a weekend of eating lots of bad-for-me-food to celebrate my birthday I am back and on the straight and narrow path of eating what’s good for me, and this Basil Chicken with White Cannellini Beans is the prefect meal. Most healthy dinners do not really entice the...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Seafood |
This grilled shrimp with mango salsa and cilantro rice has now supplanted all others as my husband’s favorite grilled shrimp meal, it is light, colorful and so very tasty so I am happy to make it whenever he asks. This recipe was the result of my needing a simple fun...
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...
Appetizer, Chicken, Food & Recipes, Main Courses |
Indian Lime Spiced Chicken Wings These chicken wings are everything you love about tandoori chicken and crispy roasted chicken skin all in one bite. I love, love, love Greek yogurt as a marinade on skin on chicken, the flavor from any spices you mix into yogurt...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pork, Uncategorized |
These braised spareribs are very yummy and very simple meal to make. The red cabbage so colorful and flavorful, the flavors so big that you can use this meal for a dinner party but it’s so little work that you can throw it together on a week night. If you really want...
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...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pasta |
Pasta alla Vodka Plus I like a nice hot bowl of pasta with a rich creamy pink sauce once in a while, and alla vodka sauce is one of my favorite variations of the pink sauce. Adding the meat from a half a leftover roasted chicken and a pint of mushrooms made a lovely...
