I definitely made this recipe before we all got whatever plague my son’s pre-school passed along to us this week. Pre-school has been great for P’s social development and terrible for mine! We are sick all the time, I swear he misses like 50% of pre-school from being sick. It’s a ruthless cycle of life …
Being an old-ass mom of a newborn and extremely active 3 year old, I’m allllll about the speediness of dinner. Bon Appetit put out a super weird (and quick) recipe for a smashburger; that is, a burger you make on the grill but in a pan (on the grill). I had been making BA’s “smashburger” …
When I make this easy Sunday pot roast, it fills the house with a warm, rich beefy smell that immediately makes me think of my Nana. My Nana made pot roast all the time; even in the middle of summer which is what Nashville feels like this week despite it now officially being Fall. TOO HOT! Anyway, …
I just looked back at the last 5 posts I made and they are all for sweets. I swear we’ve been eating lots of good things other than sugar! I’ve been perfecting this stir fry since mid-December. Nothing is more comforting in wintertime than a warm beef and broccoli mushroom stir fry. This rice bowl has made …
As I mentioned in the last post, I always cook a special dinner for The Hubs on Valentines Day. This filet is the To Die For cornerstone of said special meal. If you like meat and have a fancy occasion on which you are willing to drop a few extra bucks, this recipe is for YOU. This …
I’ve taken a small hiatus from cooking, writing and socializing for the past two months. July and August have been a whirlwind of brutal change for me! We sold our condo and moved from the bright downtown city core to quiet suburbia. No more car alarms, helicopters, sirens, or gunshots! When you turn off the lights at …
I am particularly fired up over Bon Appétit’s March cover recipe: Savory Short Rib Pot Pies. I’m a sucker for braised, slow-roasted meat, and placing it in pie form only further encourages me to want to cook this recipe. Short rib pot pie reminds me of the beef and potato pasties (say: paah-stie) my …
When I was a little girl, mom and nana both made golumpki, or Polish stuffed cabbage. Because raw cabbage smells like stinky feet, I refused to eat the cabbage part of the stuffed cabbage meal. As a kid, I’d carefully unwrap each little cabbage package and dive straight in for the filling of tomato flavored …
It was cold here in TN for like, oh, I don’t know, 10 minutes? Of course, when the temperature drops below 70, my Midwestern Polish roots kick in and I want COMFORT FOOD. Unfortunately, by the time I brought these beautiful beef shanks home, the temps had already spiked back into the 90’s. Sigh, what’s …
We hosted supper club last night and cooked a Persian feast! (Note: The Hub’s family probably would have thought what we made was just a warm up to the feast, because the last Persian dinner I ate at Auntie F’s house consisted of 5 different proteins!!!) Although we only served 2 proteins last night, I’d …
