Filet with a Port-Mushroom Sauce, Grilled Asparagus, and Rustic Garlic Mashed Potatoes
A fancy meal does not have to be challenging to prepare or take the better part of a week to cook. Fancy can be simple, yet elegant and prepared even after a long day of work. While those super elegant steak houses like to charge you at least 50 dollars for a quality filet and […]
Best Deviled Eggs This Side of . . .
While the summer picnic and BBQ season is quickly coming to an end, that does not mean that you cannot continue to enjoy the classic summer foods throughout the fall. Deviled eggs are a classic summer treat that are make an appearance at nearly every summertime gathering. Finding a party in the summer without deviled […]
Pumpkin Pinwheel Cookie Sandwiches
Halloween is just around the corner (although if you have been to your local big box store in the last week you might be convinced that christmas is next week!?). The temperatures are steadily falling and it wont be long before the leaves are changing to golden brown, yellow, orange, and red. This also means […]
Avocado Hummus: When East Meets West
While we are by no means experts on the wonderful dip that we call hummus, we like to think that there ought to be ways in which we can take it to a new level by making just a minor alteration to the standard protocol. Our avocado hummus is exactly that: it is hummus with […]
Hearty and Healthy Cream of Leek and Potato Soup with Caramelized Carrot Puree and Italian Sausage and Pancetta
A while back we posted a wonderful recipe for Italian Potato Soup with Leeks and Pancetta. That potato and leek soup is quite brothy with chunks of potatoes, leeks, pancetta, mushrooms and so on. With leeks now coming into season we have noticed a large increase in the number of leek soups appearing at local […]
Greek-Style Pasta with a Lamb and Cinnamon Tomato Sauce
My mother is in town for several days and we just so happened to have some lamb left over from some delicious burgers that we made the other night. She kept talking about a pasta dish that her mom (my grandmother) used to make for her as a kid that had lamb and cinnamon in […]
Chile and Lime Marinated Surf and Turf Kebabs
When we think about summer, we often think about burgers and hot dogs and grilling with friends and family. But, I think we tend to forget about another wonderful treat that is really easy to prepare with friends and cooks well on a grill: kebabs! A kebab is like a burger, its a platform for […]
Filet Mignon with Roasted Garlic and Tomatillo Green Chile Sauce
The other night, I was experimenting with sauces for wings and came upon something absolutely spectacular: roasted garlic and tomatillo green chile sauce. The combination of roasted garlic, tomatillos, and hatch green chilies was splendid. The tomatillos and the garlic help tone down the hatch chilies and create a mellow sauce that could be applied […]
Trio of Quick and Easy Pocket Appetizers
Here of late, we have been following a tailgating thing here and why stop now, especially with the first full weekend of college football in the books and the start of the professional season just days away now. One problem that many of us have with tailgating is that most foods are too big and […]