Although it’s summer, that doesn’t mean that the urge for comfort food goes away. It just means that you get to make prettier comfort food with fresh ingredients. Continue reading
stew
I absolutely love my slow cooker. Even though it gets used mostly during the winter, it’s great to bust it out every once in a while to make yummy one-pot dishes. This is somewhere between a stew and a hearty soup, so it is not heavy for summer. The original recipe comes form the Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook, and is great because it does not require much prep, and it is easy to make tweaks and substitutions. Next time I am planning on swapping the turkey kielbasa with some chorizo or another spicy sausage to give the dish a little kick. Continue reading
A man can commit himself to many things, a dream, an ideal, a religion, a party, a nation, or diet soda. For myself, I am dedicated to recreating the Emerald City from the Wizard of Oz in miniature, out of festive toothpicks. But I also make a mean chili. The recipe is as follows. Continue reading