Trying to figure out what to make? Or maybe just some inspiration before going to the grocery store? This Recipes section chronicles everything that I make on a daily basis. The good, the not-quite-so-good, and the sheer and utter failures! I’m joking, of course. There are very few catastrophic failures that cannot be remedied with the right skill, coaching, and presence of good family, friends, pets, and compost bins! But, nevertheless. Cooking is about perseverance and having fun with it.
I’m constantly in search of a new and interesting recipes to make. Even a brief perusal of this Recipes section will give anyone an idea of how much I cook. After a 10, 11 hour shift at work cooking for other people all day? The first thing that I want to do when I get home, my feet aching on concrete floors and my entire body smelling of other people’s food and my own blood, sweat, and tears? Is not to put my feet up and relax! But to crank up the music in my kitchen, pour myself a glass of sauvignon blanc, and start slow cooking a curry! Or make macaroni and cheese from scratch. Or melting cheese all over every single leftover that I have in my fridge in a big plate of nachos.
It’s really why I started this blog. I wanted some way to chronicle my culinary endeavors and preserve them for future reference. After all, if I don’t write down what I did, why I did it, and take pictures for posterity’s sake? I will absolutely never be able to recreate it again. And, if I’m going to go to that much effort just to be able to recreate something that I made in the middle of the night after cracking into a bottle of wine? Maybe you can find some inspiration in it, too.
Part of the point of cooking is to have a community. And my motto is always, if you have to eat? You might as well eat well! So, I hope that this Recipes section can provide some of that community. And inspiration to cook to anyone beyond myself. My eternal desire is not to fall into complacency or boredom. So, if in any way my eternally expanding Recipes section is of any value to anyone beyond myself? I wish you all of the best luck!
Mexican Wedding Cookies (also known as Russian Tea Cakes) are a Christmas staple. I’m not quite sure exactly how I started making them. I just know that no Christmas is the same without them. And I probably really do make them every year! They’re a […]
One of the most popular holiday cookies is peanut butter blossoms. My favorite thing in the world is to add peppermint Hershey’s kisses! Don’t ask me why mint and peanut butter go together. But you can only get them during the holiday season and I […]
I have been almost making chowder for weeks! I usually do a seafood holiday. But this year I made fondue and spinach pie for Thanksgiving and am thinking a fondue-inspired lobster macaroni and cheese for Christmas. But, being halfway in between these two holidays, I […]
Ordinarily I make salmon for the main course or to top off salads. For this I’ll cook the it with lemon, olive oil, salt, and pepper. Sometimes I’ll spice things up by adding shallots, garlic, or jalapeños. Today I’m making soup, though, and am not […]
This Thanksgiving leftover breakfast burrito is packed with all of the delicious things that I have leftover from the holiday season. Even though we’re in the middle of a pandemic, that’s no excuse not to eat well! If anything, it’s a great excuse to eat […]
This Thanksgiving burrito combines absolutely everything that I have! From mashed potatoes to cranberry sauce with cinnamon and nutmeg spiced lentils and homegrown habanero and red chili peppers. I wouldn’t necessarily have thought of this before going down my Thanksgiving leftover burrito rabbit hole, but […]
Leftover burritos have become my new obsession this holiday season! I made these sweet potato lentils specifically for utilizing all of the food that I have leftover from Thanksgiving. It mimics the flavor profile of the holiday season and pairs perfectly with all of the […]
I didn’t start out making a pumpkin cheesecake this year. After making Irish Cream Cheesecake for Thanksgiving, I’ve been sitting on enough ingredients to make another… Not knowing what else to do with a Costco-sized container of ricotta and sour cream! I decided to make […]
I am absolutely obsessed with turning all of my leftovers into a Thanksgiving leftover burrito! It’s a great way to utilize all of the food that I have from the holidays. I have a bad habit of making too much food on a regular basis. […]
I am absolutely obsessed with this Thanksgiving leftover burrito! Really, any holiday burrito. I cooked for the holidays this year. The problem is, that this was no ordinary year! This is the year of the coronavirus outbreak. And now I have more leftovers than I […]
