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 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 [...]

potato smash soup

My good friend Kelly shared this recipe with me long ago, though it used to be called “Mashed Potato Soup”. It was renamed by someone at one of the potlucks we took it to, and the name stuck. Though we haven’t made this vegetarian dish in a while, it’s one of our favorites, and [...]

roasted red potatoes

Just made these last night as the meat was on the grill. Tasty and easy!
Ingredients:
1.5 pounds red potatoes, cut into 1 inch cubes
olive oil
garlic powder
kosher salt
black pepper
dill (dried, from spice rack)
parsley (dried, from spice rack)
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Arrange potatoes in one layer on baking sheet. Using a “thin stream”, go [...]