Category: Entree
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Ginger Smoked Pulled Pork
What can I say, we love pork. Not going to get into a bunch of food wisdom or any other great write-up today, enjoy a just a recipe. We had this dish a few days ago as lettuce wraps and they were amazing! You could cook your own pork and pull it, but if you…
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Live-r for life!
Today we wanted to introduce something a little different, an organ meat, or offal that some of you may have never eaten, or perhaps one that you’ve not eaten since your childhood. We grew up eating calf’s liver, and although it might be an acquired taste for some, we find it to be quite delectable…
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Seafood Friday Night Dinner: Shrimp Diablo
We all love our meats, but we do need to mix it up once in a while. With that said, I want to share our Shrimp Diablo dish with you. It is hot and spicy just like its name implies. But the sweetness of the shrimp and cream evens the taste out to angelic delights.…
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Rack of Lamb
Are you tired of beef or pork? Or are you trying to impress your love or boss with an awesome meal? Whatever your motivation, change it up with some lamb, one of my all time favorites. In the old country growing up, we used to get lamb on a spit – OMG!!! So good. But since…
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Not just another salad dressing! Jo’s Almond Butter Salad Dressing
If you pick up any salad dressing bottle in the store and read the ingredients, you’ll probably never want to pour that stuff over your salads again. Even the organic “good for you” kinds will have possible food colorings, canola and soy oils or even more harmful hydrogenated oils, xanthan gum, and juice concentrates. That…
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Thai Almond Pork: awesome for lunch or dinner!
Well my wonderful husband was at it again last night with not only cooking for me, but with coming up with a new dish. He knows how much I love Thai cuisine and that I prefer pork over chicken, especially if it’s pork tenderloin. This dish took him about 25 minutes to prepare and cook.…
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Authentic Hungarian Gulasch
We believe that it is vitally important to eat right, buy local whenever possible – know where your food and ingredients really come from. With that said, I wish to share with you today my mom’s amazing authentic Hungarian Gulasch. It is not difficult to make, but you need to have patience, especially with stirring…
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10 minute dinner: Grass-fed Grilled Flank Steak
We understand that you don’t always have time to prepare a killer marinade. Although marinated skirt or flank steak is so much more tender, it’s not always in the best interest of time. If you want to eat well, fairly inexpensive and quickly, you can do so by making some grilled flank steak tonight. The…
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Looking for a lunch alternative? Butternut Squash Soup
Let’s face it, salads are great and we eat them all the time. But once in a while we welcome an alternative. So with that said, let us share our Butternut Squash Soup with you. You can easily make this in advance and have it at work or as a dinner. We just made this…
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The Power of Fennel
Time to introduce you to another fantastic veggie. Fennel Fennel has been used in Europe and especially in the Mediterranean for a very long time. It is far more widespread now, but many people still don’t consume this powerful vegetable because they either don’t know how to prepare it or just aren’t aware of it. We…