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Basics – Roasted Garlic
There are few smells better than roasting garlic. The top 5, according to me, of most heavenly, coma-inducing kitchen smells are: 1. Bread baking 2. Garlic roasting 3. Onions cooking in butter 4....
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Cooking Basics: Homemade Chicken Stock
Homemade chicken stock-not as difficult as it sounds, although it takes some forethought. Next time you roast a chicken or make chicken wings or anything like that, clean and bag up those bones and...
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Cooking Basics – Salted Caramel Sauce
This week is so busy with all the prep for our fundraiser dinner for Carpenter’s Church! So, instead of an involved recipe, I decided to give you a simple kitchen basic that I have made about fifteen...
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Cooking Basics: Basil Pesto
This is an important recipe to have memorized. If you know the basic formula, you can make a pesto with just about any green/oil/nut/hard cheese. It’s a great way to dress up a simple pasta salad, a...
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Basil Risotto – Herbs are Vegetables, Too
Leafy greens. For most Americans, this isn’t the most appealing set of words. However, most of us might just think LETTUCE or SPINACH or KALE and think, “How on earth am I supposed to eat several...
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Rustic Vichyssoise (potato and leek soup)
Too hot outside for another soup recipe? What if I told you it was a cold soup? Would that change your mind or keep you further away? We are okay with gazpacho so why not potato and leek? Maybe if...
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Parchment Baked Fish with Bruschetta and Pine Nuts
A totally simple weeknight dinner recipe for you using the bruschetta recipe from Monday! We bake, roast, and pan fry fish a LOT around here. I buy the bags of frozen fillets and throughout the...
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Creamy Roasted Carrot Soup
Fall means soup. Soup means it’s cold enough outside to not want to die at the thought of eating soup for dinner. And it being cold enough outside seems to make everything around here better. I...
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Cheesy Potato Fritatta
It’s the middle of the week. There has been a loss of momentum. Or maybe you’ve just gained yours? Either way, you have no idea what to make for dinner and all you have are some leftover potatoes....
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Savory Vegetable Souffles – Meatless Mondays Never Tasted So Good
Happy Monday After Daylight Savings Time! This will be a hard week for many, getting used to the time change. I love it once the adjustment takes place because I LOVE that it stays light outside...
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Apricot Cream Scones
Here’s a wonderful recipe I’ve done countless ways over the past few months and it’s delicious every time. Quick, easy and amazingly fluffy on the inside while being crispy on the outside – these...
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Creamy Potatoes with Thyme Browned Butter
Some days you just need someone to think up a side dish for you. This is not complicated. This is nothing you couldn’t come up with on your own. But your brain is zapped. And there are days I stand...
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Homemade Baby Food – but you’ll sneak a few tastes, too!
I’ve worked this past week on compiling a baby food post for anyone seeking out ideas for making baby food at home. I don’t make baby food at home because I’m a store-bought skeptic. In fact, the last...
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Carrots and Celery: A Colorful Spin on Steak House Sides
Summer hasn’t felt very summery until these past two weeks. The rains finally stopped and the heat finally reached into the upper 90’s and it’s starting to feel like Lubbock, again. We weren’t sure...
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Potatoes That Taste Better Than The Chicken
Fall is around the corner, my friends. The beginnings of fallish things are happening from the wonderful cooler temperatures and crisp mornings to the not-so-wonderful appearance of Christmas...
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Chicken in a Biskit Fried Chicken on a Biscuit
You read that right. Buttermilk-brined chicken thighs, breaded in ground up Chicken in a Biskit crackers and fried. Served on top of a fluffy cream biscuit and finished off with a spread of salted...
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