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This caramel-brandy mushroom sauce is perfect when you’re looking to add flavor to your beef or pork. Fresh mushrooms are sauteed in a sweetened brandy cream sauce. Tonight we were blessed with perfect grilling weather so I pulled out some rib eye steaks and started working on a goal of mine which is sauces. I…
Baked salmon is a quick, easy, and healthy dinner. In this recipe, the salmon is coated with fresh dill and rosemary seasoned breadcrumbs, giving it tons of flavor. Is it just me or has the fish at the market been an epic fail lately? I generally believe in buying fish from a fish market and…
This copycat Olive Garden chicken scampi recipe is perfect for a quick weeknight meal. It tastes great, and it’s less expensive to make it at home. Raise your hand if you love a great copycat recipe at home. Mine’s raised. True story. I can’t always swing going out to eat, even if I love unlimited…
Asian pot stickers are delicious Asian dumplings filled with spinach, green onions, ginger, and pork. They’re a tasty appetizer, or serve them with a side salad for a light meal. Somehow this holiday weekend has turned into a 3 ring circus of sorts for me. Ever since the BF and I got together the one thing I…
Steak salad, served on a bed of spinach with sour cream potatoes is a an easy and delicious weeknight dinner. You just can’t go wrong with meat and potatoes. Some nights you just know you can cook. Tonight was one of those nights. Dinner was a steak salad with spinach and sour cream potatoes… simple, easy, healthy,…
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.
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…
Sharing a grilled salmon recipe is on today’s agenda, but first, we take a break from our normal cooking blog for a special announcement. Here are some musical groups/bands that if you enjoy music (mainly if you enjoy country) you should really keep your eyes and ears open for. All of the musicians listed below…
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….
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…
Jambalaya grilled stuffed peppers. Two different recipes come together to create a really delicious dinner that’s easy to put together and cooks up pretty quickly, too. This weeks “two new to try” was an easy two birds with one stone type of thing. I made a Caramelized Cajun Chicken from Southern Living Annual Recipes 2009 and…
This weekend hit the spot. It was perfect and I was able to start actually putting things into the ground. My BF put mulch and weed barrier down for me and his mom brought over some already established (… less likely for my un-garden-educated self to kill) plants over. So Sunday morning, which no real…
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…
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),…
I love my some Christmas cheer but everything gets so stressful at times. My uncles birthday is New Years Eve and that stinks cuz he never gets a party just for himself, but on the other hand, the whole world celebrates his birthday. Kind of. So we were finally able to get together Thursday night…
It’s not even January first and I am already feeling overwhelmed by my New Years resolutions. There’s a list of things as a person I need to accomplish. Working out, getting fit, cooking more, blogging on all of my blogs more, updating my portfolio more, go to school, make more money. Those kinds of things….
Oh wait, we don’t have a steamer… Most kitchens have an oven and a stove top. The kitchen I am currently doing most of my food fiddling in doesn’t. Not that it doesn’t. There is a space being occupied by an oven, but it doesn’t bake. There’s a stove top on the top of the…
This coffee cake recipe is perfect for a holiday brunch. It’s moist and buttery, with just the right amount of brown sugar crumble on the top! Yesterday was Easter, and for the first time in a very long time my parents chose to entertain.They invited 11 people over, both family and friends. We started cooking…
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…