Dips and Sauces, Food & Recipes, Veggies |
Pickled red onions are a great condiment for anything from a taco to a sandwich. I love having them in the fridge to add a bit of zip to any meal. This is a quick refrigerator pickle, so not shelf stable or a fermented pickle. They will keep for quite a while in the...
Breakfast, Food & Recipes, Side dishes |
Sundays are all about brunch, and easy to make low effort dishes with lots of flavor are a must for any brunch lover. Whether you are recovering from a wild Saturday night or just lazing around the house waiting for football games to start brunch should be filling and...
Chicken, Food & Recipes, Main Courses |
Admit it you love prosciutto, we all do. It’s salty, rich and wonderful especially when it crisps up a little in the oven. Wrapping plain old basic chicken breast up in this porky goodness is a good idea but add some creamy feta chesses to the roll-up and it’s a great...
Appetizer, Food & Recipes, Seafood |
Mussels are probably the biggest value at the seafood market, at about four dollars a pound steamed mussels are a “fancy” dinner that will not even dent the family food budget. Do get your mussels at good fish market or other reliable seafood purveyor, for me Whole...
Featured, Food & Recipes, Side dishes |
Wild rice with mandarin oranges and grilled vegetables is such a simple side dish that is an ideal accompaniment to everything from beef to fish or chicken. The wild rice I use in this dish is a brown & wild rice mix that also has rye and wheat. Adding the woody...
Food & Recipes, Soups & Stews, Veggies |
Sorry about the missing step by step photos on this tasty tomato and carrot soup, it was not going on the site until I tasted it. Wow did I end up loving the curry flavor, such a healthy and light meal. I will admit I even made the family forgo any meat last night at...
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...
Appetizer, Dips and Sauces, Featured, Food & Recipes, holidays |
So this is the best homemade spinach dip ever. It’s hot and gooey, rich and cheesy, salty and creamy. Basically it is everything that spinach dip should be. My version evolved out of Emeril Lagasse’s recipe for spinach dip on the food network website, I took a few...
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...
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...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Soups & Stews |
Italian Wedding Soup is one of my stepdaughter’s favorites so when I was looking for a quick and easy soup to stash in the fridge for this weekend that everyone could nibble on I was thrilled to located everything I would need for it. I love fennel sausage in...
