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Pork and Rice Quesadillas

Pork and Rice Quesadillas

Quesadillas, stuffed with roasted pork, black beans, cheese and rice. It’s a quick, inexpensive dinner that keeps you full. Emphasis on inexpensive. Because not much else is cheap these days. Let’s talk politics. Ok, I don’t really have a great debate prepared here, really, I am a little disappointed in something. I went and applied for…

Chocolate Chip Belgian Waffles

Chocolate Chip Belgian Waffles

Chocolate chip Belgian waffles. Big, fluffy waffles studded with chocolate chips. Sunday morning brunch never tasted so good… and it never looked so pretty, either. Ever realize how important a simple garnish is? Where I don’t often garish our dinner plates in my own home, I expect when going out to a restaurant that there…

Homemade Ravioli

Homemade Ravioli

Homemade ravioli isn’t difficult to make. Just roll up your sleeves and prepare to get dusted with flour. It’s fun to make and delicious to eat! Today was my day off and, much like that lady on the food network who seems really mean, I spent it cooking (minus the film crew and culinary prestige…

Key Lime Coconut Cupcakes

Key Lime Coconut Cupcakes

Key Lime Coconut Cupcakes are a taste of summer sunshine. With bright lime and coconut flavors in the moist cupcake and a lime cream cheese frosting on top, you’ll want to devour these treats! Shocking News Flash: Autumn is not here yet. Despite the attempts from the retail giants to make you believe crisp weather, falling…

Ciabatta Bread

Ciabatta Bread

The author of this ciabatta bread recipe had me laughing out loud – literally – with comments like this as you went along with the recipe: Add flour and salt to your bowl of yeasty water. This, after measuring out the flour, presents another prime opportunity to get flour on your person. This will be…

Spicy Sausage Meatloaf Burgers

Spicy Sausage Meatloaf Burgers

Meatloaf burgers are made with a mixture of spicy and sweet ground sausages and ground beef, then topped with tomato sauce and melted Parmigiano cheese. This is comfort food the way it was intended to be. Satisfying! Great news… I have a new PtS original recipe for you! I’m bringing you this amazing recipe so…

Italian Sausage Farfalle with Kale

Italian Sausage Farfalle with Kale

This Italian sausage farfalle recipe is a comfort food dinner that’s packed with flavor from healthy ingredients like spicy turkey sausage, kale, white beans, and sun-dried tomatoes. And of course, pasta. You’ll love it! HOMEMADE SESAME SEED BUNS = EPIC FAIL…. It’s not often that I consider how desperately I need my Kitchenaid stand mixer, but…

Easiest Tacos Recipe Ever

Easiest Tacos Recipe Ever

This really is the easiest tacos recipe ever. For those nights when you have no time to cook, but you want comfort food, and you want it hot and fast. How to watch your numbers drop like a lead balloon – don’t update your website in 4 days. I’m sorry. I got lost during an incredible spelunking…

Sausage Calzones, you’ll be on fire for this one

Sausage Calzones, you’ll be on fire for this one

Homemade sausage calzones are a beautiful thing. They’re pockets of pizza dough that have been stuffed with sweet Italian sausage, bacon, fresh herbs, and lots of ooey, gooey cheese, then baked up until they’re golden on the outside and outrageously delicious on the inside! It’s like a bazillion degrees outside today and I’m blaming it…

Breakfast Buttermilk Cake

Breakfast Buttermilk Cake

Buttermilk cake is great for dessert, but it’s also perfect for breakfast and brunch. Moist white cake spiced with cinnamon and topped with a sweet vanilla-buttermilk glaze. Come and get it before it disappears from the table! I have been super busy the past few days trying to get some aprons out and finish up a new site…

Stuffed Turkey Burgers

Stuffed Turkey Burgers

Turkey burgers stuffed with pepper jack cheese and flavored up with Pat Neely’s special selection of seasonings makes for a quick and somewhat healthy dinner from the grill. You know the saying – “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.” Well, fool me a third time – it’s my damned fault…

The boyfriend cooks!

The boyfriend cooks!

Well, I finally went ahead and made a facebook page for Pass the Sushi… I kind of feel like a tool (but as it seems to be doing the girls at SiTs some good, hopefully it does for me too). Please check it out on the sidebar. Now, on to your regularly scheduled post.

Gina’s Cheddar Herb Biscuits

Gina’s Cheddar Herb Biscuits

Gina’s Cheddar Herb Biscuits are tender and flaky, just like any good southern, savory biscuit should be. This week, we decided to have some friends over for dinner. Why I decided to have friends over this week is still a little beyond me as I have a mental breakdown over the condition of the house….

Chicken Parmesan

Chicken Parmesan

Chicken Parmesan is a classic Italian dinner. Good comforting food to help you deal with life’s little problems… like awful, evil neighbors. Dear Evil Neighbors, Normally my love for old people runs deep, but you, you’re evil. You’re old, you’ve earned some respect, you’ve seen and done things I never will. But that doesn’t mean…

Homemade Pizza Dough

Homemade Pizza Dough

Homemade pizza dough is easy to make and this recipe creates a tender, chewy crust. Not too thick, not too thin. Best of all, you can top your homemade pizza dough with whatever pizza toppings you like best! I have two of the most awesome cats in the world. They are unlike any other cats Ive ever know….

Serenity Prayer

Serenity Prayer

I am a ‘doer.’ The type of person who doesn’t wait for anything else – if something needs to change, I change it. Its an amazing ability I poses that I have learned not everyone does. Some people just don’t change things. Or change things very very slowly. So, where I have not embraced my…

New Orleans Style Red Beans and Rice

New Orleans Style Red Beans and Rice

New Orleans-style red beans and rice has all of the flavors you expect in Cajun food, plus bacon! Really, you can add just about anything you want with bacon and it will be awesome. Looking for the best red beans and rice recipe? Making red beans and rice at home is totally worth it. Its…

Slow Cooker Pulled Pork

Slow Cooker Pulled Pork

Slow cooker pulled pork is one of the easiest and most delicious dinner recipes you will ever make. It’s spiced with a rich BBQ flavor and is great on sandwiches, in wraps, and even on salads. You’ll have everyone saying, “Damn, she makes a mean pulled pork!” Dear Marble, I adore you. You are always…

Cajun Grilled Turkey Burgers

Cajun Grilled Turkey Burgers

Cajun Grilled Turkey Burgers – Juicy grilled turkey patties with Cajun spices, onion, bacon, and cheese. Get the recipe for this comfort food dinner and make your mouth do a happy dance.   Ever notice that if you are just listening to the Food Network it could easily be mistaken for a soft core porn?…

Chicken Manicotti

Chicken Manicotti

Chicken manicotti is Italian comfort food at its best. Chicken, cheeses, and a rich tomato sauce tucked into pasta shells and baked up with even more cheese. Dinner never tasted so good. We’ve all danced around our kitchens fantasizing about being the next food network diva (I mean some of them are so boring, a…

2 Easy Dinner Recipes: Creamy Chicken Enchiladas and Copycat Applebee’s Blondies

2 Easy Dinner Recipes: Creamy Chicken Enchiladas and Copycat Applebee’s Blondies

These easy dinner recipes are quick and easy to make. Creamy chicken enchiladas are a quick and easy Mexican dinner to make. Corn tortillas are rolled up with zesty, juicy chicken breast and two types of cheese, then a spicy enchilada sauce and more cheese is baked onto the top. For dessert, make a pan of Copycat Applebee’s…

Vying for My Attention

Vying for My Attention

The trains of progression and motivation are moving faster in my head then in the real world. There’s a billion brilliant ideas, but I can only hold two light bulbs at once, and that just isn’t enough. Right now schools still at a stand still even though I am old enough to fill out the…

Southern Rosemary Cornbread Stuffed Chicken

Southern Rosemary Cornbread Stuffed Chicken

This cornbread stuffed chicken recipe is going to make you a star at your dinner table! Chicken breasts are filled with moist cornbread stuffing and served with a creamy mushroom sauce. This week was awesome! We are almost done remodeling our bathroom on a dime. The tile’s been laid, the sink spray painted (yes, that’s right),…

Another year sneaks up on me

This week is my birthday week and, as usual I am preparing for my b-day party. This year I cut the invites by half and don’t have the budget that I would normally have, so its burgers and hot dogs. Nothing too exciting, but hopefully things work out. Some friends are bringing food too to…

4th of July Throwdown

There’s something cute and charming about sitting around watching fireworks and relaxing. Unfortunately, that is not on my agenda for this year… The parents are hosting a shindig in the backyard for the 4th of July. Because, pre-made beef burgers and hot dogs are not even an option with my family at these kinds of…

The Kitchen’s Almost Done!

The Kitchen’s Almost Done!

So, with only a few more light switches and trim work to go my kitchen is almost back in tip top condition. I am both relieved to finally have a functioning kitchen again (just in time for the holidays) and kind of saddened by the fact that my house wont be filled with friendly faces…

Mint Brownie Pie

Mint Brownie Pie

This mint brownie pie recipe couldn’t be any easier to make! It starts with a package of dry brownie mix (or your own homemade version) and it’s jazzed up with chocolate mint chips and baked into a pie shell. This easy dessert recipe is a keeper! Today, along with yesterday and probably tomorrow has been…

Party Foods

Party Foods

Party foods are essential for any outdoor barbecue or picnic. So last week I threw my annual backyard get bash where I invite people from the comic book store, DND and a few other walks of my life to get together and chill. It usually rocks but this year had more stress involved then previous…