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Given A Basket of Ingredients: A Challenge to Make a Unique Salad!

Based on these cooking challenges currently on TV – a friend gave me a basket of vegetables and challenged me to make a unique side dish for his chicken with dill sauce entrée. IN THE BASKET: • Sweet Potatoes  • Small Zucchinis • Huge Spinach Leaves The two skinny sweet potatoes I sliced into rounds, […]

TONIGHT – Crêpes for Dinner!

With their round shape and golden color, crêpes are said to mirror the sun and hint at brighter days ahead, and honestly, we’ll take any excuse for eating crêpes. Yes, ]We Love Crêpes!  Recently we made-up a batch, then used the last of a roasted chicken (large dices) to add protein to our meal, then […]

Roasted Apples with Blue Cheese

This is an old-school dessert that’s worth resurrecting. It’s made with roasted apples, blue cheese, cinnamon, butter, and honey, and then served with some cream. INSTRUCTIONS Core the apples, slice short sticks of Blue Cheese and put in the center, add honey, cinnamon and butter. The cheese will melt into a buttery slightly sweet sauce, […]

Green Chili & Cheese Chicken

Green Chili & Cheese Chicken Thighs  First prep the ingredients for the green chili salsa using tomatillos, hot peppers, onions, salt, and home-made chicken broth, OR… buy green chili salsa at the grocery. (To make green chili salsa: roast the tomatillos and green chiles until blistered, remove skins and blend them with garlic, onion, stock, […]

Salt & Pepper + Paprika — Chicken Thighs

Salt & Pepper + Paprika — Chicken Thighs Using bone in thighs with the skin, sprinkle both sides with salt, pepper, and smoky paprika. Cook in a frying pan with a little oil for 8 minutes on each side. We threw in few small and quartered  Yukon Gold potatoes to cook along with the chicken. […]

A Sicilian Mother’s Traditional Meat Sauce

This recipe is from a friend, whose Mom still lives in Sicily. She refers to it as “Mother’s Meat Sauce”. We love making it and always follow the original recipe to the letter!  We have it as a spaghetti meat sauce, so good, we enjoyed making it often. Our friend does not keep this recipe […]