I was having one of those days where the simplest things went wrong. The parchment paper wouldn’t tear. My fancy egg container didn’t fare well in the dishwasher. I couldn’t open anything. The gas tank was left to me empty and I had food to…
Fewer things bring more joy than a perfectly cooked pork roast. It should be juicy and have crispy browned textures all at the same time. I love doing this roast with pork belly, but a whole pork loin is hard to pass up. Sure, it’s…
Ratatouille is one of those dishes that has a million variations. Sauce or no sauce? What kind of sauce? Peppers or no peppers? Some even have potatoes! Sliced or chopped, baked or simmered, the list goes on and on. I personally prefer a tomato and…
During the week, I like to keep it as simple as possible. We happen to be sitting on a surplus of pork and we had been running around doing errands. I cut a roast in half, browned it in the Instant Pot with some onion,…
Leftover whole chicken was a major player in my house as a single mom. Thanks gramma! One of the more uppity dishes I would make was chicken pot pie. Yes, uppity. You know you’re a poor broke lady when you consider chicken pot pie to…
I don’t often cook breakfast and I eat it even less. Or maybe it’s the other way around. Anyway, Hubs was so great through our snow storm that I was spurned to do something nice for him. And he loves eating breakfast. He really loves…
I’m not going to lie. This recipe takes all day. I’ve tried doing the sous vide on it. I’ve tried doing the Instant Pot on it. There’s pros and cons to both. Doing it in the oven as an all day venture is really the…
We are a family of dark meat eaters when it comes to chicken. The downside to cooking a whole chicken is that I had to eat the white meat so that the kid could eat all the dark meat. Annoying. But hey, parenting ain’t a…
Hubs and I were enjoying the electricity we missed for the past few days while we discussed dinner plans for the evening. I was blogging and he was working. I was lamenting the possible loss of my artichokes under all that snow. Stupid snow! We…
I used to make this dish all the time. Decades ago. It used to be my fanciest creation. As time marched on, new and less time consuming dishes took over and the jambalaya was forgotten. It didn’t help that some of the ingredients were hard…