Scallops and Prosciutto over Capellini
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:...
Quick Explanation: Roasted Garlic
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...
Grilled Veggie Salad with Goat Cheese and White Truffle Oil
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...
How to Chiffonade Fresh Herbs
After that trip to the herb garden or farmers market you have a bunch of delicate herbs like basil and sage. How to chop them is the next question. Chiffonade is the answer. Its easy and creates a thin confetti of green for you to sprinkle over a dish. First stack a...
Grilled Asparagus with Gorgonzola
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...
Cornish Game Hens with Apricot & Date Couscous Stuffing
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...
Blue Cheese and Green Onion Grits
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...
Mom’s Split Pea Soup
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...
Star Fruit More Than a Garnish
Here in Florida we get a nice selection of tropical fruit, like star fruit, given to us by our generous neighbors who have grown sick of eating the bounty of their own backyards. My most recent fruit present was a large bag of star fruit that the owner of the tree...
Chimichurri Grilled Shrimp
Here in Florida December is the start of grill season, and while the rest of the country is digging out from a pre-Christmas snow storm we are firing up the grill and lounging on the patio for a dinner of grilled chimichurri shrimp. Today’s trip to Costco yielded...
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