Menu ideas and recipes for ground beef and pork, collards, amberjack, yellowfin tuna, tomatoes, eggplant and peppers Gochujang burgers To prepare for the inevitable long days when I’ll have no time to cook, I made up a double recipe of these spicy Korean-style gochujang burgers (instead of meatballs) for the freezer. Spicy peanut pork and …
Menu ideas and recipes for tomatoes, tuna, sea bass, broccoli and eggplant The daily tomato sandwich Summer’s been weird for all of us, but take one bite of a tomato sandwich and, oh yeah, it’s definitely summer. My version features thick slices of local tomatoes on sourdough sandwich bread with American cheese (Havarti and Muenster …
Recipes and menu ideas for dogfish, red (vermillion) snapper, yellowfin tuna, mackerel, salmon, collards, okra, bacon jam, corn, kale, eggplant, chicken, pork chops with tomato gravy, pancakes, pickled eggs and boiled peanuts. ~~~ Phew, it’s been a wild few weeks. We spent a week hiking in northern Arizona and then came home to Hurricane Florence. …
Recipes and menu ideas: tomato sandwiches, pasta salads, lamb pasta, Thai chicken, Thai corn, Thai red curry cauliflower, peach blueberry pie, peach sugar, shrimp and grits, pecan-crusted flounder, and oven-roasted black sea bass with ginger, scallion and lime. ~~~ Summer treats Back in my teenage days when I was a counselor at Wheaton Farm, I …
Recipes and menu ideas: fish with Thai coconut red curry sauce, blackened skipjack tuna, green beans with mushrooms and herbs, shrimp scampi, Southern tomato pie, and pork Milanese. ~~~ Ocean Isle Beach We spent a few days visiting cousins who were vacationing at our regular coastal haunt, Ocean Isle Beach—where I met my honey. Usually …
Homemade tomato or marinara sauce takes 30-plus minutes and is so worth the effort. It’s a good kitchen habit to develop. ~~~ For someone who spent years and years working (and eating) in Italian restaurants, I am a latecomer to homemade marinara sauce. Until just a few years ago, I would grab a jar in …
Do you have a Trader Joe’s list? It’s a list of those items that you always and only buy at Trader Joe’s. My list includes nuts, dried fruit, parmesan and gorgonzola cheese, nut butters, lip balm and whatever frozen items catch my fancy—like frozen croissants. Swoon. However, I live about 30 minutes away from the …
Even a Yankee can make fried green tomatoes. The trick is to find one recipe out of all the “this is the only way to make fried green tomatoes” recipes out there. There are hundreds of them on websites, blogs and even in blog comments. People get real feisty about fried green tomatoes, insisting that …
I have a new summer breakfast. This is scrumptious, easy and quick — a recipe from The Kitchn blog — Scrambled Eggs with Fresh Corn, Goat Cheese, and Oven-Roasted Tomatoes. I had a surplus of corn and tomatoes, so I gave it a try. I made a few changes to the recipe (noted below) like …
Grabbing the Gusto 