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Before last Sunday I had no clue what a Pear Zucchini was so don’t worry if you do not either. You can substitue any vegetable here. A ‘normal’ green zucchini or yellow squash is fine or skip both and add cauliflower and/or broccoli. Basically this is anything you want it to be. However, if you [...]
Sunday night is always a special evening when it comes to cooking. Not only is it the last evening before the work week where I can spend more time preparing and cooking a meal. It is also a time to enjoy some twitter chat with fellow foodies on #SundaySupper chat. Tonight they were doing recipes [...]
Thank you FoodieChats. If you are not familiar with #FoodieChats on Twitter, I highly recommend you join the weekly chat held every Monday night at 8pm EST. The group’s Facebook page posted a Shepherd’s Pie recipe from Gordon Ramsay that looked quick and flavorful so I decided to give it a try. Here is the [...]
This dish is adapted from a recipe found on Barefoot Contessa’s website. Last week a friend shared how she made the original version along with some grilled salmon. I love lentils and had been looking for something new to do with them. Plus I really like the use of a turnip, which is a neglected [...]
I confess. I’ve been on a bit of a meat kick lately. Take for instance last night when I had a perfectly good sounding vegan soup I planned to make. Looking at the recipe on the Farmersgirl Kitchen blog, the recipe screamed for some italian crumbled sausage. If you wish to make this recipe as [...]
I now have to favorite must go places while in New York City. The first is Mario Batali’s Babbos. The second must stop is Candle Cafe, a vegan restaurant that is well-known in vegan and vegetarian circles. My wife asked me what I wanted for Christmas and one of the top cookbooks was The Candle [...]
In 1993 I took a French Bistro Cooking class that was taught by one of the chefs from The Heathman Restaurant & Bar. It was my first cooking class that led to many other classes that summer. Oddly, the thing I remember most about this particular class was my “helping” with cleanup and rinsing a [...]
Ragu is a maligned word in the pasta world. It usually conjures up the idea of a highly acidic $3 pasta sauce. The word ragu is derived from the French word ragoût, from ragoûter, that means to revive the taste. This recipe is here to revive the name ragu back to its roots of being [...]
It’s football Sunday and with the Detroit Lions facing the Dallas Cowboys, it was going to be a day of sports and it was time for something basic. Something manly. Something like meat and potatoes. So I thawed a boneless beef chuck roast I bought on my last trip to Burgundy Pasture Beef Ranch and [...]
We were coming back from an early evening photo shoot for the boys. Stephanie bought a deal on Living Social and we spent some time out at Arbor Hills Park in Plano. It was the typical rush from work, get caught in some traffic, and then come back home get the kids ready for bed [...]
