Meatless Monday: Vegetarian Arroz Gratinado

I was going to make quesadillas for this week’s meatless recipe, but after eating Boeuf Bourguignon for dinner Friday night and Provencal Roast Chicken (yes, you get a recipe for that this week!) on Saturday, that for Sunday, I absolutely did not want anything fried. Sure, sure, you -could- make quesadillas by baking them, but […]

Meatless Monday: Three Sisters Succotash

Succotash is one of those dishes that sounds like a joke. You know, like when Sylvester says, “Thsufferin’ thsuccotasth.” It just doesn’t sound like anything that anyone would really eat.
But yes, people do eat it and it is very good.
But where did it get that outlandish name?
It isn’t outlandish at all–I mean […]

By Popular Request: My Favorite Jerk Rub Recipe

So, yesterday, I posted my version of Jamaican “peas and rice,” which is what most Americans would call red beans and rice. Whatever you call it, it is tasty–in fact, probably the tastiest beans and rice ever.
A couple of readers asked for my jerk rub recipe, and so here is my favorite–the one that […]

When Your Chili Doesn’t Have To Be Red: Pork and White Bean Chili

Zak and I agree on almost everything. We both love music, we both like bright colors, we both adore movies–the good, the bad and the ugly, we are both science fiction and fantasy geeks, we love dressing up in Renaissance Faire gear, we both like absinthe and we both love cats.
There are some notable […]

Cooking From The Pantry

So, while I wasn’t writing posts for the past month, there were lots of other things I wasn’t doing.
I wasn’t cooking a lot at home.
I wasn’t eating a lot at home.
I wasn’t cleaning up a lot at home.
I wasn’t taking a lot of photographs.
I wasn’t sleeping very much.
There were also a lot of other things […]