Menu ideas and recipes for shrimp, spice/herb mixes, pork, peaches, peppers, chouriço and vegetables Swooning over summer scampi The highlight of the week, hands down, was summer shrimp scampi with tomatoes, corn, red onion and basil. My god, this was good. The extra butter I added at the end didn’t hurt. I’m making this again …
Recipes and menu ideas for shrimp burgers, shrimp broth, dill pickle potato salad, four-bean salad, creamed collard gratin, oven-fried parmesan green beans, pink-eyed peas, striped mullet, tilefish, and pork Milanese—plus adventures with plant-based burgers. ~~~ Local shrimp goodness I only buy North Carolina shrimp—oh, here she goes on her soapbox again. Nothing against shrimp from …
Impress your family (and yourself) with these pork chops stuffed with sun-dried tomatoes and spinach — a fantastic recipe. If you have time to brine the chops, they’ll be tender and juicy. ~~~ The first time I made this dish – a Giada recipe – the stuffing was fabulous, but the pork, although nicely browned, …
Hoisin pork with Napa cabbage is a quick, weeknight favorite of ours. It’s a great recipe for chicken too! ~~~ Fine Cooking has always been a reliable source of good recipes. I used to get the magazine but, as a tactic to tame my outlandish food magazine library, I stopped subscribing. Plus, online, I can get …
We’ve all been there. You have absolutely no idea what to make for dinner and time is running out. There’s no way you have the energy to cook a decent meal. Take-out, anyone? But you really want a proper dinner. Take heart, I have a solution: Pork (or Chicken) Milanese. It’s quick, delicious, and doesn’t …
Pork tenderloin stuffed with bacon and mushrooms is a recipe taken to the next level because of porcini powder — dried porcini mushrooms turned to dust in a coffee grinder. ~~~ Oh my, this is good. I made it only once but enjoyed it on two different nights. I bought two tenderloins instead of one, but since …
All you need are supermarket ingredients for eggplant and pork with black bean sauce, a sort of cousin to Chinese mapo eggplant. ~~~ I almost didn’t make this dish from the Closet Cooking blog because I didn’t have all the ingredients, specifically fermented black beans, chili bean paste, fermented bean paste and Szechuan peppercorns. I could …
How do you feel about meat and fruit? It’s a dinner deal-breaker for some of my friends, but I love the sweet and savory combination. I found this recipe on the Bitchin’ Camero blog – yes, that’s the name of Melissa Camero Ainslie’s cooking blog, don’t knock it, subscribe instead, she posts some great recipes. …
Although I live in North Carolina, I still have a blizzard mentality about my pantry and freezer. “Just in case we have a blizzard, I better have enough food on hand.” Living five years in Sacramento, where the only snow falling is on the TV news report from the Sierra Nevada, didn’t cure me of …
Grabbing the Gusto 