Cooking

Every cook changes their recipes, a little tweak here, a pinch of something new there, and before you know it, you’ve rewritten an entire recipe.
I first committed my tomato sauce recipe to paper about 6 years ago, published it online a couple of years after that, and when this site went up it was one [...]

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The other day at the store I noticed they had some ground lamb and decided to grab some, figuring I’d make a burger of some sort. I let the idea bubble in my head as I went through the store and decided I would most definitely want some slices of roasted lemon to go [...]

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My friend Jill pointed out this morning that due to my last name any toast I make is French toast, so we’re subtitling this recipe “Frenchy French Toast!” Jill also claims to have told me about putting orange juice in the batter over a year ago, this may well be true, but I had [...]

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Okay this is dinner in under an hour BUT most of that time is passive.
Roasted Butternut Squash & Panko Crusted Pork Chops.
Ingredients:
1 package pre-peeled and cubed butternut squash
1 package thin cut boneless pork chops (under a lb total weight)
Panko breadcrumbs
2 eggs
cup of milk
1/2 cup seasoned flour (flour with salt, pepper etc)
1 cup Safflower oil
1/4 [...]

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This morning I was catching up on reading other blogs and came across a recipe for Kale & Roasted Vegetable Soup. I thought it was interesting but have family members who don’t like kale, and it was also a vegan recipe, and I think we all know how I feel about Vegans, (they [...]

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Really easy curry, but with a note… I never use broth or coconut milk fast enough so I freeze them into ice cubes. I’m estimating approximately 1oz per cube* and converting back to ounces.
8 ounces (8 frozen cubes) of Vegetable Broth
4 ounces (4 frozen cubes) of coconut milk
1 Tablespoon red curry paste
1lb fresh spinach (cooks [...]

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Had a lazy weekend, spent Saturday at my sister’s house lazing in the pool, and when it came time to cook it was strictly “What’s On Hand” We were not about to ruin this day, with a run to ANY store.

Strictly what’s on hand Macaroni Salad

1lb tube or shaped pasta (elbow, ziti, rotini, penne, [...]

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This past Saturday I once again dragged myself into Manhattan to get myself some farm fresh, real ingredients for some healthy, wholesome meals.
The result was a Provencal style chicken with vegetables.
Ingredients:
One quart* of baby fingerling potatoes, cut into bite size pieces
8 Golden beets (small to medium in size), cut into bite size pieces
4 Roma tomatoes [...]

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1 bunch beet greens – stems removed, chopped, washed thoroughly.
1 small shallot minced – about 2 tablespooons
3 cloves garlic – minced
2TB olive oil
1TB butter
1TB creamy horseradish
3TB heavy cream
1/2 cup water
Salt & Pepper to taste
Sautee the garlic and shallot in the olive oil and butter until golden
add the greens, stir.
add the water and cover
Simmer on medium [...]

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