Dinner

If your goal is to create a rich, deeply flavorful soup, know that a soup is only as good as it’s broth.  Broth can be made in advance and stored in the freezer to make soup a quick and convenient weeknight meal.  But a good …

If I could be great at making two things, it’d be a richly flavorful, brothy soup and a whole roasted chicken.  Simple dishes done extraordinarily well are my ambition in the kitchen.  The extraordinary is hard to see – it’s not pompous or fancy.  Instead, …

To set the stage on this post, it requires a confession.  One of my favorite guilty pleasures as a kid was those cheap premade chicken pot pies you’d find in the freezer section.  To be completely honest, the frozen food section has never tempted me …

We’re a couple weeks into a 90-day gluten free and very limited added sugar protocol.  We’ve been working on our gut health and this is what was recommended for both of us based on lab work.  Our functional medicine practitioner/RN shared that we don’t want …

Shepherd’s pie is such a great recipe to have in your toolkit.  I love it because it’s composed of ingredients that I almost always have on hand.  It’s a meal I can pull together even if I didn’t plan it for the week.  As much …

Fall and Winter bring long-held family traditions of bird hunting.  My dad grew up bird hunting with his dad, and my brother and I grew up doing the same with him.  Since I was in grade school, I can remember October trips to central & …

Minestrone soup.  Where to begin?  I have so much to say on minestrone and on soup alone.  I’m going to be doing a series on soup as the weather continues to cool.  For this reason, I’ll hold my thoughts on soup for later posts. Back …

If you’ve read my previous pizza post on sourdough Neapolitan-style pizza, you know how deeply I love pizza.  Detroit-style pizza has become trendy lately.  A number of chefs, YouTube channels, and food blogs have tried their hand at this craze.  I had to join in …

I was never a big cooking competition shows and then my husband introduced me to Top Chef.  The caliber of the competition and the structure of the show are a completely different level than some of the dramatic, gimmicky competitions I was familiar with.  It’s …

It’s August, the temperatures are at some of the highest of the year, grilling is preferred to avoid heating up your kitchen, something cold like a salad, yet filling with protein and carbs seems like a great dinner option.  If you feel like Thai but …