Main Dish
Better Than Take Out! I can’t even begin to count the number of times I have gone to my favorite Indian restaurant, only to think to myself that surely I could make this at home. So I would try. I would add a little of this spice or that. Maybe add some tomatoes….but my efforts [...]
Mama Never Made It Like This! I don’t know how it was in your family when you were growing up, but at my house, we had my mother’s version of this casserole at least once a week, and sometimes even more often. It was expensive raising a family with seven kids. I didn’t even see [...]
Best Comfort Food – Ever! Did you eat those horrible little frozen pot pies at your house when you were a kid? Same here! At the time, we thought they were kind of exotic and pretty tasty. Plus they were one of the few things we were allowed to cook without adult supervision. They were [...]
Is This Chicken Drunk? This dish was very popular at a national restaurant chain a few years back. But then someone with an overly-inflated sense of morally righteous indignation complained about the fact that it contained alcohol, and it was dropped from the menu. Then the restaurant patrons complained that they wanted it back. In [...]
Quick, Super-Easy Baked Deliciousness It is sometimes hard to find tasty, interesting recipes for fish, the types of recipes that you could serve to dinner guests proudly. This recipe is easy and quick enough for a busy weeknight dinner, yet it is also not your run-of-the-mill baked fish, so it can be presented elegantly enough [...]
Don’t Let a Few Peppers Inspire a Knee-Jerk Reaction! If you like your food with any degree of spicy heat - anywhere from the mild bit of flavor provided by three crushed red pepper flakes to the take-off-the-roof-of-your-mouth explosion of fire that occurs when you include a handful of scotch bonnet peppers in a recipe [...]
Are You Roasting This Summer? Let Your Slow Cooker Take the Heat! I often wonder, when a recipe is labeled with a particular global cuisine reference, such as Italian, Greek or Caribbean – is it really? Would it be a normal part of the diets of those people? Is there some little Nonna over in [...]
You’ll Love Every Bite of This Crunchy Mess! As a kid, Sloppy Joes were one of my favorite meals. Of course, this was long before the convenience of Manwich was ever even dreamed of by the marketing genius at ConAgra Foods and Hunt’s, who brought it to market in 1969 as a “quick and easy [...]
Don’t Pesto Me….and Stop Calling Me Shrimp! Of all the types of seafood that I have come to know and love – all types of fish, swordfish, crab, calamari, oysters, and clams - shrimp has to be my favorite, hands down. I am absolutely certain that I could eat my weight in shrimp! With the [...]
Sea Meets Citrus, Sweetly, In This Quick & Easy Recipe Do you have picky eaters in your family? The kind who turn up their noses at the very thought of eating fish? If you do, this is the dish to serve that will change their minds. This quick and easy salmon dish tastes like a [...]