Side Dishes

As side dishes go, Quinoa is the gift that keeps on giving.  Here I give it a little Mediterranean flair with leftover pine nuts and olives. This dish follows the basic side dish formula of:  Starchy Base + Something Crunchy + Something Herby + Something Acidic + A Little Bit of Oil. Though […]

Kid Friendly, Side Dishes

Brussels Sprouts have been quite the turnaround vegetable the past few years.  Quickly rising from bad childhood memories to the Number 1 side dish on nearly every restaurant menu in America.  In these Balsamic Roasted Brussels Sprouts, I use a two temperature cooking method to get them tender in the […]

Snacks

Everyone’s heard of 40 cloves of garlic chicken and thought “wow, that’s a lot of garlic!”  What if you took 100 cloves of garlic and made it into a buttery spread?  Read on and find out how easy it is to make. Mission: Find Recipes That Use a Lot of Garlic […]

Side Dishes

For the last couple of years, Quinoa was the standout kitchen grain.  Now overexposed by the food magazine and foodblog world, it’s been displaced by trendier grains like Freekeh, Amaranth and Farro.  So if you still have pounds of quinoa in your pantry, here’s a roundup of a couple my […]

Beef, Main Dishes

Beef Tenderloin is great.  What about oven roasted beef tenderloin that’s been rolled and stuffed with garlic and horseradish?  Well, that’s even better.  And it’s a one pan dish that’s really quite easy to do. The trickiest part of the dish is butterflying open the filet.  I could have taken […]

Main Dishes, Pressure Cooker

Who loves pulled pork?  Who loves waiting 8 hours for it to be ready in a slow cooker?  After somewhat successfully converting other slow cooker recipes for a pressure cooker, I set out to do the same with pulled pork. This wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. […]

Bacon, Main Dishes

I’m pretty sure it’s still trendy to wrap just about anything in bacon.  Plus, it’s hard to go wrong wrapping a pork tenderloin in bacon.  Add in lots of garlic and roasted vegetables, and it’s actually a fairly easy weeknight dish This caught my eye in a recent issue of […]

Soup

You might be wondering, ham and asparagus together?  In a soup?  If you’ve ever made grilled asparagus wrapped in prosciutto, then this will make sense.  I wasn’t sure at first either, but it’s a delicious soup   It’s also a nice sturdy, creamy soup.  But rather than loading it up […]

Breakfasts, Vegetarian

Quiche always sounds like a great idea.  Until I think about the pie crust that it’s usually made with.  I don’t think they’re the trans fat magnets they used to be, but they aren’t going to win any Healthy Eating awards.  Did you know that quinoa makes an excellent quiche […]

Breakfasts, Kid Friendly, Snacks

Apple Butter was always a real treat growing up.  What I never realized is just how easy it is to make at home.  And ironically, there isn’t any butter involved in the preparation. While thumbing through a popular cooking magazine, I noticed an advertisement for Vitamix blenders that included a […]