oven baked bbq chicken with mashed sweet potatoes

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 [...]

pork asado, filipino style

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 [...]

pork loin roast, cuban style

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 [...]

“I’m so sick (of my dissertation)” beef and lentil soup

I held off as long as I could, but I finally had to include my dissertation in the name of one of my dishes. Today was one of those great writing days… you know, the ones where you think that banging your head on the keyboard will produce better results than you staring at the [...]

WGRS: Fish Tacos with Broccoli Slaw for Andrea and Eric

Congrats to one of my graduating students, Eric, and his bride to be, Andrea, on their upcoming wedding! Sadly, we won’t be able to raise glasses to them in person, but we’ll be there in sprit – that’s for sure.
Although we couldn’t put together a custom spice box for the happy couple, we were able [...]

mostly crispy oven “fried” chicken

I was searching for an oven fried chicken recipe, since I defrosted a pre-cut chicken on Thursday but wasn’t able to use it until today. After looking at several recipes online, I noticed that there were a few decision points – whether or not to marinade in buttermilk, what to coat the chicken with (flour, [...]

easy pork chops and a new whole grain: quinoa

I purchased a bag of quinoa at the local grocery store about three months ago, and I finally got around to making some last week. I followed the recipe for “basic quinoa” on the bag, but added a few extras to spice it up. I served it with some quick and easy pork chops and [...]

balsamic chicken

This is one of our weeknight meals, because it’s super quick and easy. Actually, the toughest part is probably trying to think about the quantities in the recipe… they are approximations only!
Easy Balsamic Chicken
Ingredients:
4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves
3 tbsp olive oil
4 tbsp balsamic vinegar
3 tsp dried oregano
3 tsp dried basil
1 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp [...]

dutch oven pulled pork

I am about to hit the road for another week of work travel, so I thought I’d cook up some meals to leave in the fridge for Mike. I asked him what he wanted, and he requested pulled pork. Lately, I’ve been making a dutch oven version of the Svarovsky staple, since our slow cooker [...]

WGRS: Tatay’s Filipino Turkey for Thanksgiving

When I was growing up, this is how my dad made Thanksgiving turkeys. As you’ll see from the recipe, traditional stuffing isn’t used here – in fact, I never really understood what other people meant by “stuffing” or “dressing” until I went to high school! This meal was always one of my favorites. The turkey [...]