Mar 19, 2012

Peppery Asian Ribs

Your last meal on earth: what would it be? I can now safely say that, along with my Big Green Egg Ribs, these peppery Asian ribs are right at the top of my list. We need a food bucket list, people! I’ve meant to cook these ever since I wrote the crock-pot posting—the comment section has been filled with wonderful slow cooker recipes since then, you might want to take…

Mar 12, 2012

Meatballs With Peanut Orange Sauce

I’ll keep it short and sweet. Here’s my latest witches’ brew: meatballs slowly simmered in a laid-back and slightly different from your average peanut sauce. Oh, how I love anything with peanut butter in it. I used my slow cooker but you can make a stove-top version as well. Simply add 1/3 cup orange juice extra, and simmer for 30 to 40 minutes.   Ingredients: 1 pound meat balls (recipe is…

Mar 6, 2012

Creamy Chicken Peperonata

There aren’t a lot of real easy recipes out there I like better than chicken peperonata. Simple, too. You cut up some chicken, add onion, garlic, tomatoes and a boatload of peppers, simmer the whole shebang and voila… peperonata. That’s the recipe in a nutshell, mind you. Anyway, the flavor this simple combination of ingredients gives your poultry or meat is astonishing. Especially grilled meats. But I’ll be more than…

Feb 29, 2012

Perfect Roast Chicken

This is, without a shadow of a doubt, the best roast chicken I’ve had in quite some time. I received the recipe from a friend of mine who was kind enough to attach a photo to her email. It looked phenomenal. Hunger-inducing. Had me running out the door collecting ingredients that same afternoon. And then I tried it for the first time and let me tell you; this is paradisiacal!…

Feb 25, 2012

Grandma’s Soup. The One & Only.

As per request, here’s my—well, it’s really my grandmother’s—recipe for beef, vegetable, tomato, and vermicelli noodle soup. Quite a mouthful (pun intended). I never even try other recipes, simply because this one hits all the right spots. How could it not? I’ve made it ever since I was a little girl. Been using my slow-cooker to make the soup and it works like a charm. No intentions of changing that…

Feb 16, 2012

Easy Cod & Sprouts Casserole

After my successful sprouts hodgepodge earlier this week, I couldn’t resist publishing another sprouts recipe that I think I got from a women’s magazine some time ago. This one’s even easier and just as tasty. Maybe even more so because I’m a huge seafood fan and the fish seems to make the dish lighter than you’d expect it to be. I followed the directions to the letter. Yeah, I know:…