27 Sunday Apr 2014
Posted in burgers & sandwiches, love to cook, vegetarian
Kate’s Roasted Buffalo Cauliflower Grilled Cheese.
Day #27 of National Grilled Cheese Month. We’re building quite a collection of delectable and occasionally over the top sandwiches. I enlisted the help of four of my favorite ladies (my nieces Maya, Kate & Jen and my kid Shelby). Their mission was to come up with their own signature Grilled Cheese. Here’s how Kate’s came to be. Continue reading »
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05 Wednesday Feb 2014
Posted in chicken, gluten free, healthy choices, love to cook
Baked Sweet Potato with Buffalo Chicken. Now here’s where you might say….Really? I’m here to tell you that the sweet of the potato is exactly what our Buffalo Chicken was hoping to cuddle up to. These chickens, they try to be all aloof and such but they are real cuddle bugs. Continue reading »
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22 Wednesday May 2013
Posted in chicken, eat out of the fridge/pantry, love to cook, salads
Tags
avocado, bacon, blue cheese, eggs, grilled chicken, lettuce, scallions, tomatoes
The Classic Cobb Salad.
The quintessential Eat Out of the Fridge/Pantry recipe just might be The Cobb Salad. After all, as the story goes, that’s exactly how this world-famous salad came to be back in 1934. Bob Cobb, owner of the legendary Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant, got a midnight hankering for something to eat. Midnight snacks can be some of the best meals. Anyway, he went pilfering through his restaurant’s industrial sized refrigerator pulling out a variety of leftover ingredients (hard-boiled eggs, lettuce, avocado, tomato, cooked chicken, blue cheese…) and proceeded to chop them into a massive salad. He snagged a few slices of crispy bacon from a line-cook on his way out. The Cobb Salad literally became an overnight sensation. Continue reading »
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17 Thursday Jan 2013
Posted in chicken, love to cook, soups, stews, chili
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blue cheese, carrots, chicken, chicken broth, cilantro, Franks hot sauce, onion, orzo
It’s soup weather in our neck of the woods AND the NFL Playoffs are under way. So when pondering What’s for Dinner, I came up with the combination of Buffalo Wings & Chicken Soup. Do you ever envision a recipe and think to yourself brilliant!, this is the most brilliant creation anyone has ever imagined. I will make it and they will name it after me. But just to be safe, let’s do a quick google search just to be sure someone else hadn’t already thought of it. For a fleeting moment this Buffalo Wing Chicken Soup was my chance for fame. Sadly, it’s not my time….let’s just say it’s been done a time or two. Continue reading »
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15 Sunday Jul 2012
Posted in gluten free, love to cook, low-carb, seafood
I was asked yesterday “where do you get your recipes?” The short answer is “everywhere.” Certainly the Internet offers unlimited options, however I love my cookbooks, read cooking magazines, talk to people about recipes, sample food offerings every chance I get, and often offer myself samples “Want a Bite Lib?”
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