Good food feeds the soul
The best part of any meal is often what comes before it. These appetizers, snacks, and small bites are inspired by the tapas culture of Spain, the petiscos of Portugal, and the Southern spreads I grew up with — food meant for sharing, grazing, and lingering over.
I love ravioli because it’s so versatile and good to eat (I’m not talking about the stuff from the can or the freezer). There’s nothing like the fun of making homemade ravioli and then sitting down to enjoy a plate of it. Ravioli needs to start with …
I’m running a little behind this week because I have a nasty cold that’s been going around. I’m going to go with another easy tasty recipe (and healthy) from the crock pot that’s good for not only the cold weather but for game day as …
Wings around our house don’t last long at all. I think I can safely say that my husband’s absolute favorite food is wings. I didn’t like wings all that much when I met him but now I love them. The one thing I didn’t love …
One of my husband’s favorite foods is shrimp, pretty much any way it comes. As for me, I love shrimp as well but I’m more picky on how I like it cooked. In my opinion, the flavor of grilled shrimp is just so awesome; the smokiness from …
I love jalapeño poppers. They are yummy and make great appetizers that just about everyone loves. It just seems when I looked up jalapeño popper recipes that there was only three ways they are made: either battered, use a breading and fried or wrapped in …
My husband asked me an interesting question yesterday. He asked “why do you love to cook so much?” The easy answer is because I love to make other people happy. People just get happy when they eat good food; many of my happiest moments involve food …
Around my house we love pizza, both take out and homemade. We are lucky enough to have a couple of good takeout pizza joints that deliver in our neighborhood for when I’m just to tired or really have run out of time in the day. …
Pesto, the beautiful green wonderment of summer cooking loaded with green goodness. I often hear people stating emphatically how they “hate” pesto and will never eat it again. To those people, my answer is: skip the store-bought stuff and make it at home and you …
Not too long ago I learned a small but very significant grilling or broiling tip that makes a huge quality difference in grilled food is to precook the food by blanching (I had only used blanching for freezing in the past) before finishing on the grill or oven. …