Menu ideas and recipes for beef, sourdough, flounder, bigeye tuna, carrots, Brussels sprouts, and tuna salad A classic from Anthony Bourdain As winter heads out, we enjoyed a stellar boeuf bourguignon on Sunday night. I adapted Anthony Bourdain’s recipe from his Les Halles Cookbook—sigh, I miss my old pretend boyfriend—by adding mushrooms and herbes de …
Menu ideas and recipes for crab, shrimp, calamari, garlic bread, corned beef, cheese danish, Christmas cookies, sticky toffee pudding, amberjack, snapper and burgers Holiday seafood dinners The highlight of our holiday feasts was creamy baked crab cannelloni on Christmas Eve—a Giada recipe. Wow wow wow, it exceeded my expectations. On the side, broccoli roasted with …
Menu ideas and recipes for herb pesto (lemon basil, Thai basil, mint and cilantro), tilefish, tuna, roast beef, eggplant, potatoes and beets Lemon basil pesto and southeast Asian-inspired pesto Between my deck garden and CSA share, I can’t keep up with all the herbs coming into my kitchen. I made a pesto with lemon basil …
This kicked-up version of Sloppy Joes includes chipotle en adobo, poblano pepper, onion, garlic, dark beer, molasses and other good stuff. Keep it in mind for tailgating and football parties. ~~~ What are your mandatory kitchen ingredients? I can’t imagine not having onions, garlic, eggs, parmesan, and pasta on hand. I can create enough meals …
I’ve had this recipe for a while but kept forgetting to take a photo. But, finally I did and now I can share it with you. A few months ago Jim and I went over a friend’s house for dinner. He made Salisbury steak in a crockpot. My last memories of Salisbury steak were from …
I worked in restaurants and bars for most of my 20’s and 30’s, as a waitress and bartender in my early 20’s and as a manager for many more years. St. Patrick’s night was always nuts, even at the white tablecloth McCormick & Schmick’s, which Bill McCormick once described as “a bar with a really …
This spicy cheeseburger dip recipe was a bit hit at our Super Bowl party. Save some to make the most decadent cheese sandwich ever. ~~~ How about some heart attack on a chip? I made this dip for the Super Bowl. I heard the Obamas were having burgers and wings. If the First Lady can …
There’s nothing worse than finding a dead hand in your mashed potatoes. Appetizing, huh? Last year Meagan Reardon of the Not Martha blog shared this hideous creation. I knew as soon as I saw it that I had to have my own hand this year. She used a plastic hand mold to create it but …
With all the meatloaf recipes floating around out there, how do you choose just one to make? Most cooks probably have a stained and greasy index card from their mother or grandmother. If not, there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of recipes online, in addition to the ones stored in cookbooks. I was browsing through my …
Grabbing the Gusto 