Bringing "back in the day" back to today
Over the last few years, we have managed to ruin trips to almost any restaurant by coming home and using their food as inspiration to make it better (and cheaper) at home. What we are left with is an ever shrinking list of places to go out to eat. Recently, we went out for sliders and …
Cooking from scratch can sometimes be a challenge when you are in a rush. During the week when we need to be running kids in different directions it can sometimes be difficult to get a good meal on the table and still get to practice on time. We started making a quick San Marzano tomato …
It is the week of New Years and like a lot of folks one of my resolutions is to eat better and exercise more. One of our favorite recipes lately is black bean veggie burgers. They are meat free but still contain a good deal of protein and flavor. The best part is that they …
Sometimes inspiration comes in the strangest ways. For example, tonight we were going to have pizza for dinner. The plan was to use our standard homemade pizza dough recipe one with some homemade sauce that I had in the freezer and one garlic pizza. The dough was made at lunchtime and left to rise …
Let’s rewind to approximately eleven years ago. Picture a small town girl, fresh out of college, whose most exotic lifetime food sampling had been sweet and sour chicken from the local Chinese joint. Now imagine that girl at a small potluck dinner function with a group of coworkers who had come all over the world. When my colleague handed …