Holiday Leftovers Two Ways – Sauteed Green Bean Casserole & Turkey Sausage Hash over Stuffing Cakes

Tis the season for leftovers. With the traditional spread of turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, dressing and cranberry sauce, the leftovers are indeed often better than the main event. However, after sandwiches, and the inevitable re-warming/repeat of the holiday meal, we often run into a dead-end. Here are a couple of fun ideas you might try, [...]

Foodista – Wikipedia for Foodies

A friend passed along a great site today: Foodista. In the site founders’ own words: Better Organization We make it easy to find, share and learn about food and cooking.We’re the first website to organize cooking information into four linked categories: Recipes: Combinations of ingredients. Foods: The most basic of ingredients. Either as they are [...]

Puff Pastry Shells with Sweet Potato & Apple Puree, Blue Cheese and Bacon

Filmed this just last night. As you’ll see, I need a lot of practice in front of the camera. Recipe and cooking instructions for the sweet potato and apple puree coming soon. This is a slight modification of a recipe I’d posted previously using sourdough instead of piping the filling into pastry shells. What I [...]

Cornmeal Crusted Shrimp and White Cheddar Grits

This is one of the most delicious and simple comfort foods of all time. For the purposes of this recipe, I’m going to refer to shrimp as Shramp, out of respect for the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. The ingredients for this are as follows: Quaker Old Fashioned grits (one serving) Dubliner Irish Cheddar Cheese (4-6 [...]

Madame Silva’s Bouef avec Groseilles

Roughly translated, “Mrs. Silva’s Beef with Currents,” but as my family calls it “Mrs. Silva’s Meat Dish.” I first had this dish when I was nine, just like my father, who first experienced the wonders of this simple dish in 1956. Mrs. Silva – no one seems to remember her first name – was a [...]

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