Monthly Archives: March 2016

Tasty! French Toast

Who knew? Aunt Beezy’s soda bread makes the Best! French Toast. Ever! And, since tomorrow is St. Paddy’s Day, and yeh, a lot of folk’ll be making soda bread, I thought I may as well share Barb’s Aunt Beezy’s recipe, … Continue reading

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Spicy Sautéed Cabbage

Continuing with our St. Paddy’s Day menu, the corned beef is taken care of; now, how about the cabbage? Sure and all, I could just boil it, or mebbe serve it as cole slaw; but I came across a recipe … Continue reading

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A Nice BBQ Sauce – AND a Bonus!

Saint Patrick’s Day is coming up, and folk are gathering their supplies to make the yearly corned beef and cabbage dinner, so I thought I’d share our take on tradition. Yeh; we have corned beef and cabbage, but, the corned … Continue reading

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Parfait! Seasoned Salt

Now, I realize that “seasoned salt” is not a thing that folk give a lot of thought to, but they really, really should. First; pick up that seasoned salt in the spice aisle at the market and look at the … Continue reading

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Spanish Rice

What better to go with our dry braised brisket tacos than a nice batch of my favorite yellow rice? What? I am out of yellow rice?!? Bother. Fortunately, after a search of da google, I find that my stash of … Continue reading

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Not Your Nonna’s Brisket

We were eating lunch and kinda watching an old episode of The Kitchen on Food Network where Marcella Valladolid showed how to make Machaca, a marinated, then slow cooker braised beef brisket used for some quite nice looking tacos. We … Continue reading

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Cauli ‘n Cheese

I came across a recipe on Food Network, nicely shared by George Stella, who called this – let us be honest – cauliflower and cheese casserole – a low carb mac and cheese. It is not. It is, however, mebbe … Continue reading

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Horseradish Brie Spread

We were planning a getaway in one of our favorite places; and I was checking out likely restaurant menus on line when I came across the mention of a pastrami sammich with house made horseradish brie. I was intrigued. I … Continue reading

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Parfait! Boom Boom Sauce

Today’s post is probably the number one recipe on this here food blog: boom boom sauce; a combination of sweet and hot peppers, cheese (well, cheese “food” – unless you use this recipe), chicken stock, and a can of cream … Continue reading

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Guinness Gingerbread

This dark, rich, spicy cake is a tasty treat at any time, but especially on these (often) cool, gray late winter days. Tho… when I say spicy, I have to admit that I think it could be more so. I … Continue reading

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