Split pea soup with ham and bacon is one of my favorite fall foods. It reminds of chilly fall days during my childhood. When I make a hearty soup like this, I always start by cooking a little bit of bacon in the soup pot. It adds a nice base layer of flavor to the soup. If you’re concerned about fat content, you don’t have to do this step… but it does taste better with bacon! Well, what doesn’t taste better...
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If there is a more comforting scent than freshly baked cinnamon rolls during the holidays I’ve not yet discovered it. This recipe makes about 45-50 individual rolls. In my opinion they are the perfect size.. not massive and gooey like those “buns” you get at the mall. Although this isn’t her recipe, I like to follow Nancy Silverton’s baking tip from her La Brea Bakery Cookbook and use disposable pie tins to...
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Cornbread Dressing with Apples & Chorizo There are a few ingredients in this world that I just can’t live without…. green chiles, chipotle and goat cheese. If you’ve been reading this blog, you may have noticed I try and sneak at least one of these into a recipe. I couldn’t resist using those ingredients again in this Thanksgiving recipe. In fact, this may be the best cornbread dressing recipe I’ve...
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Saveur Magazine has many tantalizing new recipes and sometimes some that aren’t new but may be forgotten. Last week they shared a recipe for Chicken Galliano. It reminded me of several similar recipes I’ve made with chicken over the years. I’m a big fan of pan sauteed chicken and integral reduced sauces. I’m also a huge fan of goat cheese and prosciutto! So this recipe was right up my alley. The only thing I...
Read MoreGood Bite is at it again! They challenged me to participate in Chef David Lawrence’s campaign with Hyundai called “Appetite for Adventure.” In this series, 8 bloggers were given a recipe challenge to come up with a dish using a specific “adventurous” ingredient. My ingredient was whole cumin seed. Fortunately, I use whole cumin all the time… in fact I never buy the pre-ground stuff in...
Read MoreSpicy Chicken-Vegetable & Cilantro Sausage Soup Sorry, no photos. I made this yesterday on a whim and wasn’t prepared for it to be this good! It’s really simple and feels more like “assembly” then “cooking.” This recipe is only to share with you what I did…. however you can make your own substitutions and variations depending upon your availability of ingredients. The...
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