Posted on October 31, 2009 by gina
We made lasagna this past week but didn’t find any bulk Italian sausage at the store. So, I thought I’d take a shot at making it myself. I combined a recipe from Alton Brown with another one I found online at Sausage Mania, added a little extra flavoring, and voila! It turned out very well [...]
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Posted on October 21, 2009 by gina
I went looking for a baked chicken recipe today and remembered that Paula Deen had one of her sons on her show demonstrating how to make BBQ chicken in the oven. I used the Deen Brothers’ recipe as a starting point and added a few modifications. I then found a recipe for whipped sweet potatoes [...]
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Posted on October 18, 2009 by gina
Four years ago, we were watching the 2005 Notre Dame-USC game (infamous for the “Bush Push”… cheaters) with some friends and I made a pretty good batch of chili, which I posted on the blog last year as part of the Wedding Gift Recipe Series. We were going to make a batch yesterday for this [...]
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Posted on October 14, 2009 by gina
Today was a great day – I used two different dutch ovens to create two different braised dishes. MMMMM. The first one was a small batch of kare-kare, a Filipino peanut stew that I’ve written up before. The other was a batch of Pork Asado, which braises pork in a soy sauce and brown sugar [...]
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Posted on October 5, 2009 by gina
My mom brought me a 3+ pound frozen pork loin when they came up for Easter (Let me explain. No, wait, it is too long. Let me sum up: they were moving and needed to clean out their freezer.), and when Mike came home with some fresh Honeycrisp apples, I went looking for a good [...]
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