Food development efforts
I typically make a warm appetizer for Thanksgiving Day. Each year I try something a little bit different. In past years, I’ve made stuffed mushrooms, mini quiche, and mini tacos. This year I decided to make spinach stuffed puffed pastry. First, I preheated the oven to 400 degrees, While I was waiting for the oven […]
Earlier this week I posted a picture of this recipe I decided to make on the fly to Facebook and everyone said it looked SO GOOD. So I decided that maybe I should post it here for others to find and try to replicate. Ingredients 1 – 1 1 /2 pound pork tenderloin Flour, egg, […]
This past weekend was my birthday and I decided what I wanted most was to spend the day trying new recipes out. So I made a variety of appetizers recipes and celebrated by having family for a dinner with my experiments. The first recipe I decided to try was one for spinach and feta turnovers. […]
One of my “go to” foods when I want to make something ahead for dinner or to have as weekly lunch is quiche. I almost always have eggs, cheese and store bought pie crust on hand so I can quickly throw one together. Also because you can put pretty much ANY veggie or meat in […]
I made some pretty great things over the holidays but have been super bogged down and not able to write much. So I decided to do a so please holiday food recap with some recipe links. Christmas Day I hosted festivities at my house and made several things. For breakfast, I made buttermilk herb cheese […]
My last CSA box of the fall season include a green cabbage. It has been sitting in my fridge for a couple weeks while I thought about what I wanted to do with it. My biggest problem with cabbage is that as soon as you cut it starts to turn black from oxidation. This means […]
Every time fall rolls around my CSA box starts to include lots of squash. Typically this is acorn or butternut squash, but this year the box included kabocha squash. I’m never really sure what to do with winter squash. The fall el nino was 1 he was very willing to eat pureed squash. However, neither […]
I am always trying new recipes trying to find new things that will big hits for my family. My hope is to expand what I call the recipe rotation. I’m not a big fan of chicken. There are a limited number of ways I like it. Baked chicken with gravy, chicken pot pie, chicken Milanese, and […]
Nothing is more frustrating to a cook tyhan when the meal you planned goes sideways. This can happen for several reasons. Someone unintentionally eats one of your ingredients. WTF chocolate chips aren’t a snack! The dish itself fails. It tastes awful or burns or something truly awful You forget to thaw your meat The third […]
I am a sucker for the bargain meat bin at the grocery store, especially if it has any kind of lamb or veal or beef short ribs. More often than not I find some type of marked down lamb. From what i can tell, lamb isn’t particularly popular in the US. A few cuts like […]