For your next meatless meal try this sweet potato salad recipe or hockey pucks as my son calls the rounds. Cut them round, square, lengthwise or simply nice and fat. These oven-roasted steaks are enhanced by your choice of toppings. You can be as creative or plain as you want but this recipe strives for …
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This cucumber sambal recipe will be a great condiment for your holiday celebration whether it's Christmas, Thanksgiving or Kwanzaa. It pairs well with your favorite grilled fish or chicken. I love the refreshing element the cucumber base provides to this relish as well as the mild heat from the serrano chiles. The recipe was taken …
This is not your average bowl of eggplant stew. It's delicious, made with just a few ingredients, and seasoned with a South African Braai spice rub. The spice rub is made homemade and adds amazing flavor to a very simple dish that you will enjoy No Doubt! FOR THE MOOD Eggplant Ingredients For the eggplant …
These poached vegetables represent simplicity in prep and cooking, but AMAZING complexty of flavor! In a unique and loose reinterpretation of a "garden vegetable soup," leeks, fennel, and new potatoes are poached in a smokey ginger lemongrass broth. This is a one-pot dish in which chopping the vegetables is all the work required and cooking …
Asian daikon salad, a most beautiful and tasty thing! One ingredient side salad with a simple but delicious vinaigrette. MOOD MUSIC WHAT IS DAIKON? Typically daikon is white and actually look like a thicker white carrot. They are common to Asian cuisine, particularly Chinese and Japanese. Not only are these daikon beautiful in color, they …
Potatoes scream comfort to me! Quick Roasted Mini Potatoes with chili lime sauce that give them that big EXTRA something good! The chili lime sauce is simple, but packs a complimentary punch. The lime juice brightens the potatoes and helps bring out that roasted flavor. MOOD MUSIC WHAT YOU NEED TO MAKE ROASTED POTATOES For …
Sweet potatoes and collard greens can make the best leftovers, especially in this delicious and super easy Soba Noodle Bowl recipe. This is a vegan dish with odd combinations of vegetables that surprisingly work in great harmony together. Traditional "soul food" ingredients are paired with Japanese flavors for a satisfying and interesting meal. I recently …
Nothing like some raw collard greens chiffonade to get me off that slide! Simply prepared, a tasty way to get collard greens in your life any day of the week. We eat collard greens in one form or another at least once a week in our household. This collard greens recipe made chiffonade style is …
Smoked beets with balsamic glaze combine the earthy essence of beets with a tantalizing smokiness, while the balsamic glaze adds a sweet and tangy finish. This harmonious blend creates a sophisticated and flavorful dish, perfect for those seeking a balance of savory and sweet notes in their culinary indulgence. Smoked beets are a modern take …
My daughter teases that a root vegetable salad is "old peoples' salad! But she never passes on fixing a large plate of this simple and delicious salad that brings together farm-fresh ingredients. When you grow-up with your grandparents and spend a fair amount of time with your grandmother and her crew of girlfriends and sisters, …
Stewed Okra and Tomatoes - fresh summer ingredients slowly simmered with a flavorful sofrito sauce for a balanced yet Southern classic stew-like side dish. It's prepared the Southern way, but with a Caribbean twist. The best part about cooking stewed okra is the aroma that is produced via the slow cooking of the ingredients which …
This papaya blackberry sorbet recipe makes for an interesting combination that works extremely well! I love making ice cream. I grew up on that plain vanilla and on a good month that neopolitan trio or the sherbert on-sale flavor of the week. Now its fancy gelato and exotic sorbets lol! This blackberry and papaya sorbet comes …
What's up my peeps! Today, we're gonna talk about one of my favorite ways to cook steak: sous vide. Now, I know what you're thinking - "Sous what?" But trust me, once you try it, you'll never go back to your old ways of cooking steak. And when it comes to sous vide, one cut …
This easy beef goulash recipe is a very unclassic version of that classic recipe that’s a family favorite one pot weeknight dinner. Simple, quick and full of flavor it qualifies as ballin on a budget! Note this recipe was updated September 19, 2019 Inspiration for the beef goulash recipe My grandma made a southern version …