It wasn’t until a few years ago that I discovered real barbecue. On my first trip to North Carolina’s Outer Banks, I had my first true pork barbecue sandwich. In all honesty, I wasn’t that impressed. The sauce was ridiculously vinegary. BBQ sauce should be sweet and tangy, but whatever I had was too sweet… Continue reading BBQ Pulled Chicken Sandwiches with Cole Slaw
A Parisian Style Puff Pastry
Bacon and puff pastry share a lot in common. Adding bacon or puff pastry to the cloth of whatever you are making will automatically make it ten times better. Fact, not opinion. 😛 The flaky, buttery goodness of this tart cannot be overstated. Apples, butter, brown sugar, puff pastry (I added some cinnamon at the… Continue reading A Parisian Style Puff Pastry
Dark Chocolate Coffee Ice Cream
My post about this ice cream has been put off because I just don’t know what to say about it. After all, it was ice cream. It is long gone from the freezer, so I can’t taste it again for inspiration. My memory of the ice cream was that it was just okay, nothing extraordinary.… Continue reading Dark Chocolate Coffee Ice Cream
A New Staple Dish
I’m done with you, Cream of Wheat. Beautiful Farina Boy with hair I want to wrestle; I am leaving you for another. Get out of my life, creepy Quaker Oat Guy. Steel-cut oats are my favorite now. Simply put, steel-cut oats are the top-notch, first-class, blue-chip boss of the crop. I have been reading a… Continue reading A New Staple Dish
A Refreshing Gazpacho with Grapes
We are not really a gazpacho eating household. I think both of us just don’t really care for cold soup. In addition, most gazpacho’s are tomato based and we do not like tomatoes when they are uncooked and so tomatoey. However, this week’s recipe is a white (or really, green) gazpacho. This is definitely not… Continue reading A Refreshing Gazpacho with Grapes
Cinnamon Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting
Okay, these were pretty delicious. Moist cinnamon cake, a surprise swirl of chocolate and cinnamon sugar in the middle, and chocolate ganache frosting to top it off. How could it be bad? The answer is, it can’t be bad. The original recipe was for a whole cake. However, in a effort to save some money… Continue reading Cinnamon Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting
Chickpea Fries & Falafel Recipe
I generally try to avoid fried foods. I like to save my fried food intake for particular things that I know I love and will be worth the fat and possible belly ache that I get from too much fried stuff. A fried fish sandwich from a stand near husbands childhood home, homemade French fries,… Continue reading Chickpea Fries & Falafel Recipe
Baked Fish Fingers with Homemade Tartar Sauce
Fried fish is awesome. There is a stand at the farmers market by hubby’s parents house that has the most amazing fried halibut sandwich. They coat the fish in dry pancake mix, then egg, then panko and deep fry it to deliciouness. On a potato roll with their homemade cocktail sauce, it is heaven. I… Continue reading Baked Fish Fingers with Homemade Tartar Sauce
Italian Style Cod Recipe
I have a confession to make. I don’t enjoy cooking fish. My confidence in the kitchen is at its lowest when I am cooking fish. Now, this does not include shellfish. We eat A LOT of shellfish, so I have become very comfortable handling it. However, hand me a piece of fish, and I will… Continue reading Italian Style Cod Recipe
Hipster Brownies
This really is an ingenious idea. Chocolate chip cookie dough on top of brownie batter. Whoever originally came up with this must have been quite pleased with themselves. Fortunately, I did not have that problem. Unfortunately, mine were under baked. I am not really sure what happened. I even had it in the oven with… Continue reading Hipster Brownies