Dinner
One of Winter’s Delicious Chowders Is Just As Tasty When Chilled When most people think of chowder, they picture a snowy winter’s night, curled up by a fire, eating a bowl of chowder, their golden retriever curled up at their feet. A beautiful memory, most certainly. Chung-Ah’s delicious chowder recipe brought back my own chowder [...]
You Can Call Me A Cab, But Don’t Call Me Cruciferous, Darling! If you had to pick the most versatile, non-starchy veggie, which one would you pick? Green beans are pretty good, but you can’t mash them like potatoes. You can mash carrots, but you can’t put them in a casserole with cheese. You can make [...]
Is This Your Favorite Dish At This Restaurant? It used to be that if you wanted Southern comfort food cuisine, you had to visit your Southern relatives, or beg them for their recipes. Then in 1969, a quaint little restaurant opened in Tennessee. It was given the homey name of Cracker Barrel, and the rest [...]
There’s Nothing Fishy About This Delightfully Easy One-Pan Meal! I don’t think that I eat enough fish in my diet. I don’t think very many of us do. So that started me wondering why, exactly, this might be. Because I really like fish. The only time I was ever served a fish dish that I [...]
This May Not Be Your Grandma’s Lasagna, But It Sure Tastes Great! I often find myself craving lasagna. But it is such an ordeal to go through, making it at home. I will often order it when I go to one of my favorite Italian restaurants. Let them deal with all of that assembly mess [...]
This Isn’t Just a Copycat Recipe, It’s Better Than The Original! Soup has got to be one of my all-time favorite comfort foods. In fact, I don’t think I have ever met a soup that I didn’t like. So when I saw Amanda’s copycat recipe for the Olive Garden’s Zuppa Toscana, I knew I was [...]
You Won’t Be Chilly For Long With This Easy Stew Warming Your Belly! I know! I know! It’s waaaay too early to be thinking about soup and stews! But when I saw Amanda’s delicious take on White Chicken Chili, I just had to share it with you – she always has the best recipes! This [...]
You’ll Fall Head-Over-Heels For These Delicious, Easy, Quick and Healthy Wraps! Nguyet (pronounced “Wick”) is a cook I recently discovered when I was looking for wrap recipes to try. She really impressed me with this wrap she created, as I had never thought of pairing salmon and guacamole, nor have I seen it served together [...]
These Shrimp May Be Small, But They Pack A Big Punch Of Flavor! I can always count on Jen to have the most interesting and flavorful recipes. Time-after-time, she has come up with some of my favorite recipes, so I always check her site first, just to see what’s cooking in her neck of the woods. [...]
This Is Not Fried Rice, It Just Tastes Like It Might Be! Does it bother any of you when something new and different comes along and they try to describe it using a slightly-changed, old term? This dish is called Quinoa Fried Rice. Yet there isn’t a grain of rice to be found anywhere in [...]
