Boston Style Baked Beans
This week I am continuing my quest to eradicate all processed food from the house with a simple-yet-hearty recipe for Boston-style baked beans. I have been searching for recipes that are easy and...
View ArticleBelgian-Style Mussels
I should have called this post “Things I Thought Were Hard to Cook (But Was Wrong About)”, but then I would have had to include all of the other well-kept culinary secrets and…well…some of them are...
View ArticleCiopinno
I LOVE seafood. I mean LOVE it. I’ve loved seafood since I was a little kid. Every year for my birthday all I wanted was to go eat calamari at my favorite seafood restaurant at Jack London Square in...
View ArticlePasta a la Carbonara with Leeks and Arugula
Sometimes you don’t know you’re looking for something until you find it. Sometimes you’re just minding your own (or everybody else’s) business mindlessly surfing through facebook when a friend of yours...
View ArticleMaking Rabbit Sausage
Mmmmm, rabbit We’ve got so much rabbit and so very little freezer space right now, with more rabbits on the way. We needed to do something with all this rabbit and let’s face it, I’m getting a little...
View ArticleNot-So-Green Chili Stew
Remember the Red Roasted Tomatillo Sauce? Here’s what you do with it. So I promised this recipe when I posted the Red Roasted Tomatillo Sauce recipe and I just kept forgetting to post it. Well, here it...
View ArticleMmmmm….Crockpot Chili
It’s been awhile since I’ve done a non-canning recipe so I figured I was overdue. With this cold weather it’s nice to sit with a bowl of comfort food. I love chili but I really don’t make it enough. We...
View ArticleTom’s Spicy Tomato Sauce
Tom and I’s first date he made me dinner at his apartment. It was a simple yet tasty dinner but I was most impressed that not only that he could cook but also that he enjoyed it. One of his best dishes...
View ArticleThe Best Freaking Turkey you will EVER taste!
It’s November and we know what that means! Thanksgiving will be here any day now so I’m reposting this recipe because it IS that good. This year we have our own homegrown turkey and I can’t wait to do...
View ArticleA quick how-to: Refried Beans
Sometimes life is busy. Sometimes life is so busy that you don’t have time to do the things you said you would do for other people (let alone anything for you) and you forget to feed yourself for long...
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