One Pan Spiced Pork Chops with Bacon is an easy, healthy and delicious way to celebrate seasonal cooking. We had all that cold weather, I started craving soups and stews and then wham! Awful heat wave. It is never hot enough to swim over my birthday at the end of September but this year it…
Middle Eastern Salata
This Middle Eastern Salata is a celebration of summer’s bounty as well as a gift that keeps on giving as the leftovers can be tossed with pasta to make an amazing pasta salad. Sammy and I made this Middle Eastern Salata together; salads like this are good practice for bigger kids working on knife skills….
Spiralized Calabacitas with Salsa Negra Glazed Chicken
Spiralized Calabacitas with Salsa Negra Glazed Chicken is a flavorful, Mexican-inspired dinner that makes the most of your zucchini harvest! It can easily be made vegetarian by using grilled tofu. My friend Kirsten, whose delicious Farm Fresh Feasts is super seasonal, can blog about things a year after making them (to make sure the reader gets…
Steak Salad with Romesco Dressing
Marinated steak is grilled to perfection and served over greens with roasted peppers and onions. A tangy Romesco dressing ties it all together. Affiliate links were used in this post to link to items I am discussing. I would not normally post about recipes from the same cookbook 2 posts in a row, but this cookbook…
Inverted Shepherd’s Pie: Ground Beef with Dijon Mustard and Veggies on Smashed Potatoes: Using Community Cookbooks
Inverted Shepherd’s Pie is a great option for when you don’t want to turn on the oven but are craving some comfort food! I owe you a refried beans post, but I am waiting on the publisher to send me (as is their preference) the recipe. So I am sliding this Inverted Shepherd’s Pie in instead.
Noodles and Veggies Stir Fried in an Asian Peanut Butter Sauce
Proof that the brain is a muscle like any other: since my surgery, i.e., since all these weeks of not really using my brain and just reading guilty pleasure regency romances (yes I admit it!), I have writer’s block. Maybe not big time true writer’s block, the way some long suffering novelist might get, but…
Mexican Pasta Bake with Ground Beef and Sour Cream: Using Community Cookbooks
Mexican Pasta Bake with Ground Beef and Sour Cream is the best of American comfort food livened up with healthy vegetables and Mexican herbs and spices. This next installment in my series using community cookbooks comes from the most wonderfully named little book: “…On The Border…By The Sea…” Cookbook Contributed by the Women of The…
Stir Fried Beef with Peppers, Mushrooms, Eggplant and Nam Prik Pao; Review of Everyday Thai Cooking
I don’t know why I thought we would have a mild, pleasant fall. After all, it was one of the coldest, wettest summers ever, so why should I expect the sun and warmth of late September to last? And of course it did not, the temperatures dropping all of a sudden to below freezing all…
Tortilla Casserole with Braised Beef in Beer and Salsa Verde
Tortilla Casserole with Braised Beef in Beer and Salsa Verde tastes like it takes a lot more work than it does. Simple to make, especially if you have access to good salsa verde, it is a reliably delicious one pot meal. I have made it many times over the last fifteen (!) years, enough so…