Category: Great Dinner Ideas
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The Best Pulled Pork
We’ve been experiencing a bit of a weather event here in Central Texas, but today the sun is shining, the power is on, and all is well. I’ve been keeping the neighborhood birds happy with lots of seed and fresh water, and have had a chance for some kitchen puttering too. I discovered a pork…
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Poblano and Shrimp Corn Chowder
People occasionally ask if a recipe I post is original to me. I suppose they’re wondering if I envisioned it, wrote and tested, then published it. If that’s the case, the answer is probably uh, not really. While I’ve certainly followed those logical steps of recipe development before, most of my recipes are original simply…
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Speedy Dumpling Soup
I spent a lot of time yesterday making cupcakes. Lots of cupcakes. And you would be correct if you also assumed that I spent a lot of time yesterday taste- testing cupcake batter, cupcakes, and frosting. Please don’t judge. This is what I do. By evening, though, I had consumed my fill of everything sweet…
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Hey Hey Etouffee
One thing I learned while living in South Louisiana is that those folks know how to have fun! If it’s not a crab boil, an oyster feast or a crawfish festival, your next door neighbor has made a gumbo and insists that you and the kids come over “right now while the rice is still…
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Chili Lime Pork with Corn Salad
Sometimes making dinner is hard. I’ll just throw this out there – sometimes I decide what to cook based almost solely on the number of dishes/utensils/cutting boards/etc that I will have to clean up when it’s all over. There. I said it. Never mind what my people want to eat, sometimes my tired self just…
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Biscuits and Sausage
How many of you could use a little comfort right about now? I understand that we’re all supposed to be watching our weight, unclogging our arteries and thinking keto-thoughts, but by golly sometimes regular old comfort food is in order and it comes happily to you today in the form of Homemade Biscuits and Sausage…
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A One Pot Cajun Jambalaya
Has this whole isolation thing already worn you out? Are you tired of coming up with something new to cook for dinner each day? While this isn’t really a problem for someone like me who loves to cook, some of my friends tell me they’ve pretty much exhausted the limits of their cooking skills. And…
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Gumbo Weather
In South Louisiana, at least the area in which I was privileged to live for a few years, there’s an actual season called “Gumbo Weather.” It begins around November when temperatures start to drop and continues well into February, or at least until many Cajuns strut their gumbo prowess on Super Bowl weekend. You won’t…
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Italian Wedding Soup
Let’s see…Well first, I suppose, I might have long, luxuriously thick dark hair. And beautiful, glowing olive skin. Maybe I’d be thin. And leggy. Yes! I’d be fiery, mysterious, and sultry. I’d have the most glorious accent- I’d sing opera!! But wait. I’m not Italian. Not even a tiny bit. I haven’t even watched The…
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Chicken Pot Pie with Puff Pastry Crust
I’ll admit. The crust on this beauty is a little over the top in more ways than one! It’s a bit rustic. A tad dramatic. Let’s just think of it like a Texas gal having big hair and being closer to God. Amen But it’s true, isn’t it, that the main attraction of a pot…
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Hobnob Kitchen 