Bringing "back in the day" back to today
We have been on a pretty good Asian food kick for the past week or so, for example, last Friday was sweet and sour chicken! Tonight we had ground chicken pot stickers with a tasty spicy chili/soy dipping sauce. I thought my better half had left me a recipe to make dinner when I got …
Spring is here and its time to start thinking about grilling outside more. One of our favorite grilled recipes is grilled Greek chicken. The marinade recipe uses common ingredients that you probably have on hand. Another big plus is that you don’t have to marinate the chicken for many hours to get that bold grilled …
Our kids appreciate fresh, homemade meals and often accept even the most spicy, weird looking, strange smelling and colorful food that we throw at them. Every now and then I do try to send a meal their way that is nutritious, delicious and fun. These easy chicken pot pie turnovers made with puff pastry dough …
The winter that seemed like it was never going to end seems to be relenting and giving way to warmer weather. With warmer weather we start to move some of the cooking outdoors to the grill. This recipe came to us via an excursion during the cruise that we took last fall. In St. Maartin …
Ever have one of those nights, the ones where you need to get a dinner on the table and the day has gotten away from you so the food shopping didn’t get done. Tonight falls into that category. When the natives start getting restless, you start to survey the situation and see what you could …
This little bundle of joy is the secret to awesome soup. Fresh thyme, parsley and bay leaves wrapped in cheesecloth simmer quietly in chicken broth to flavor your soup with the perfect seasoning blend. Add cream, dry sherry and wild rice and you have a chicken soup that is so good that you’ll wish illness …
This is comfort food at it’s finest. For us this was a new recipe that I followed exactly and after the family devoured it was agreed that the original recipe is perfection. This was an easy meal for a Sunday and paired very well with mashed potatoes and corn. If you have about an hour …
Another one of my Thai takeout favorites is Pad Thai. Since the spicy fried rice turned out so well, I decided to try my hand at making Pad Thai. From my searching, I found that there are quite a few variations on this recipe, some of them are quite complicated and some are pretty basic. …
On Sundays I like to prepare meals that take a little longer to cook. Sometimes I choose recipes that are more involved. Not today! Lately our kitchen gets a workout on Sundays, as we bake the week’s bread and lunch treats. Eric was also bustling around the kitchen today too. When all of that was …
We have gotten to be pretty pampered when it comes to chicken noodle soup; between canned soup, boxed stock and dried egg noodles from the pasta aisle at the store. Today I set out to do homemade chicken noodle soup the old fashioned way, use vegetables from the garden, homemade stock and even …