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You will find no sea creatures in this jambalaya recipe. Collectively, we just can’t agree on seafood. My oldest loves fish and shrimp. I’ll eat haddock, lobster and crab. Eric is a scallops and clams kind of guy. My youngest can’t have shellfish. See why we avoid it? This is a creole jambalaya recipe that …
Before I left work today, everyone was talking about what type of food that they were ordering for dinner tonight. I must admit that I was seriously considering ordering a pizza. When I arrived home, I found Eric toiling away in the kitchen whipping up homemade Chinese food. The results were 1000x better than anything I’ve ever …
My two year old daughter reviewed this meal tonight without even being asked. About halfway through dinner she shouted out “Yummy in my tummy!” Toddlers are a notoriously difficult crowd to please, so I take any positive comments about the food I put in front that kiddo very seriously. Needless to say, this meal gets …
This is not the recipe you remember from your childhood. The complex flavors share little resemblance to a braised beef with gravy that may or may not have had some sour cream happen to fall into it. The fact that this is a crock pot meal makes it even better. Spend 15 minutes before you …
This is one of those recipes. The ones that comes up after you eat the same meals over and over again. With high hopes you add it to your menu. And as sure as the sun rises and sets it gets skipped that week. I can’t really say why, it’s not like it is complicated …
Growing up just outside of Utica means that chicken riggies were a must have at picnics, family functions, and on restaurant menus. Interestingly, if you stray too far from the Utica/Rome region people don’t know what the heck you’re talking about. Over the past few years, I have seen Utica chicken riggies popping up on menus …
If you are in need of comfort food, this is it! This chicken and rice soup is creamy, flavorful, and mmm, mmm, good. Make it once and you’ll say good-bye to Campbell’s. Obviously, this is not going to be as easy or as quick as popping open canned soup. Bear with me here. I did …
There were two reasons why this recipe made the menu this week. For one, I was sick of a can of water chestnuts staring at me every time that I opened the pantry. And when it’s below zero outside, a cooped up New Yorker will do just about anything to remind themselves of summer. This …
It all started when I was a kid. Taco night. I always looked forward to taco night. But, you need to understand that we are talking about store bought taco seasoning packet with crispy taco shells of unknown vintage. They were great, shredded lettuce and mozzarella cheese topped bottled taco sauce. As I have grown …
Let me start off by saying that Foodgawker, Tastespotting and all the recipe sites hate our pictures. Until the constant barrage of rejection flooded our inbox I could honestly say that I had not given any thought to how to take a picture of food. Clearly, I am not a photographer. We’re in there swinging …