• giardiniere escabeche pickle recipe

    Pickle It! No Waste Pickles

                 My favorite way to prevent wasting produce is to pickle. Mostly because I am obsessed with pickles but also because you can pickle most anything and it…

  • Roasted Red Pepper Tomato Soup Recipe

    Roasted Red Pepper Tomato Soup

    A friend of mine was working on a recipe and shopping list app. He asked me for feedback on some things about it. The concept was great, but there was one thing that…

  • Cuban Black Beans Recipe

    Cuban Inspired Black Beans

    My “Little Pressure Cooker that Could” finally gave up on me yesterday. The tough part was that she called it quits while cooking black beans at a new client’s. There I was on…

  • Chicken Tortilla Soup

    Chicken TORTILLA Soup

    I LOVE a good tortilla soup. I have a confession though. Not even thinking about the name itself, I used to make it without tortillas! I’ve just enjoyed it so many times while…

  • Red Chicken Pozole

    Red Chicken Pozole

    Red Chicken Pozole is another one that came to me from a request by a weekly meal client. I hadn’t made it before. To be perfectly honest, I had never even eaten it…

  • Bacon Wrapped Grilled Shrimp

    Grilled Bacon Wrapped Shrimp

    Bacon Crimes Series Edition 1: Flabby Wrapped There is only one texture that bacon should be and that’s CRISPY! It’s one of the reasons I actually prefer thin-cut bacon over thick. When I have…

  • Caprese Penne Pasta Caprese Pasta

    Caprese Penne Pasta

    The fresh tomatoes in this dish really brighten it up. Truly a perfect summer pasta. Simple, light, and delicious. Sometimes, that’s all you need. (function() { var d = document, s = d.createElement(‘script’);…

  • Chicken & Waffles

    Chicken & Waffles

      This is another time my recipe will sway a bit from the classic. Don’t get me wrong. I love a good traditional bone-in fried chicken, however I am often cooking for specific…

  • Chimichurri on Flank steak

    MY Chimichurri

    I was browsing through Instagram the other morning when I scrolled upon a photo of a Greek salad that Jaime Oliver posted with a link to his recipe. I noticed all the naysayers…