Monthly Archives: June 2016

Fruit Punch Mousse!

We were at a market with Rich’s mom in her home town and I came across… FRUIT PUNCH JELL-O! I didn’t wait. I didn’t think. I snapped up two boxes (and a couple of boxes of curiously named – at … Continue reading

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Pork Chops in Brandy ‘Shroom Sauce

So. This is kindofa cheater recipe. I took my regular buttermilk marinade – which is killer for chicken as well – and prepped a couple of nice bone in chops the day before making this dish. And it turned out … Continue reading

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Endive and Blue Cheese Salad

Take a step away from Iceberg and Romaine and consider Endive for your next salad. I’d bought a bit too much endive for a gathering, and so had several left sitting around the crisper making me think I really need … Continue reading

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I just can’t…

not today. Tomorrow, we will go back to food and (hopefully) fun; but, today… we need to step back and remember the innocents murdered in Orlando over the weekend. All because some nutjob was freaked out by seeing two men … Continue reading

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Parfait! Grilled Sausages With Beer & Pineapple

Who knew? As I’ve noted before, I was never really a huge fan of the grilled sausage, until I came across this genious! method of pre-cooking them before popping ’em on the grill to get nicely charred. The secret? Beer. … Continue reading

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Savory Meatloaf

So, yeh, I have a kindofa love/hate relationship with meatloaf. I love me some meatloaf, but generally hate – well, am wicked disappointed – in the results when I make it. And then, there are the meatloaves that turn out … Continue reading

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Lemon Crunch Cupcakes

I was going through the rack of cookbooks I have downstairs (as opposed to the stacks and racks of cookbooks I have all over the rest of the house), and came across a 1973 recipe book from the editors of … Continue reading

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Pineapple Baked Beans

I am a sucker for the cooking magazines at the check outs in the market. I actually had a bunch of subscriptions, but keeping up with the physical detritus of three or four monthly-ish magazines – especially, when I, of … Continue reading

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Can o’ Beer Chicken Wings

Funny thing… this recipe started out as root beer glazed chicken drumsticks on the grill. Then I went to the market and came across a large package of chicken wings and drumettes and thought I might could well go that … Continue reading

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Parfait! Pimiento Cheese Deviled Eggs

This has got to be one of my new favorite munchies recipe; deconstructed deviled eggs. No more tedious boiling and peeling the eggs, you simply separate the whites from the yolks and prepare them, well, separately. At the end, you … Continue reading

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