Winter White Bean Chicken Soup
In the winter with the holidays behind us its time to eat healthy and enjoy every bite. This bean soup with both kale and chard is perfect for a chilly winter night but you won’t regret it come bikini season. This meal is a hearty enough to keep everyone full but...
Pepperoni Baked Ziti
Yes it’s the middle of the holiday season and I am posting baked ziti, know why? Because it’s not a roast or ham or cookie recipe, I need a break. This ziti is a simple casserole dish that can travel to pot luck or feed a house full of holiday guests with only a...
Thanksgiving is Coming, Plan on Enjoying It
Whether this is your first thanksgiving or your twentieth, thanksgiving planning can make or break your holiday. I hosted my first thanksgiving at 19 years old in my college apartment and fed not only a rag-tag bunch of college kids but also a handful of their...
Meet Michelle…I firmly believe that if you passed high school chemistry you can learn to cook well, and I know that $50 at a grocery store will yield you more delicious food than $50 spent at most restaurants ever could. At my home the wine is good, the company great and the food is fabulous. There is no reason why it can’t be the same at your house! Together we can all cook better than most restaurants. Read More
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...
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...
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...
Anything Fruit Bread
What kind of fruit is sitting on your counter waiting to be eaten? Is it brown bananas, slightly mushy cherries, overripe strawberries? Save it from the garbage-can by making it into a fruit bread that is healthy and tasty. I gave up on just making banana bread...
Spinach and Basil Pesto
Growing Basil is not that difficult of an endeavor, trust me I have killed enough plants to know what horticultural tasks are within my capabilities, and I almost always manage to have a live basil plant back porch. But even with your own plant you can come up short a...
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