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I was a the market the other day and grabbed some cremini mushrooms. I was craving some mushroom soup so decided I was going to make some. There is something about the earthiness of mushroom soup and the way it fills and warms your body. I was having an inspiring Sunday afternoon and wanted something for lunch other than left over pizza. So I dug through the pantry to see what I had to be able to…

Beef and Eggplant Casserole

I have bought some eggplant the other day to make some baba ganoush. I never did, so I needed to use it up. I first roasted up the eggplant earlier in the day and when it came time to do something with it I came up with this beef and eggplant casserole. (more…)

Aunt Lodema’s English Soup

It’s soup season and the cold weather always makes me want comfort food. I grew up on this soup. It was passed down from my Great Aunt Lodema and my mom made it many times each winter. It makes the house smell wonderful and your insides nice and warm. (more…)

Walter’s Lasagna

One of Walter’s specialties is lasagna. He’s always made a great dish and it improved after our trip to Italy (and the many detailed notes we took while eating the food there). One of the things that make this lasagna so amazing is the fresh ingredients used in it especially the fresh homemade pasta noodles. If you are daring enough and have the tools, I highly recommend using them. It is ok if…

After traveling through Italy a few years back, we vowed to make the majority of our pasta fresh. We mainly use this pasta dough recipe to make lasagna and the cannelloni. You can use it also to make linguini as well as tagliatelle noodles. (more…)

Our pink sauce is a mixture of a béchamel and a basic tomato sauce. It comes out to make a creamy pink sauce that is delicious in our lasagna recipe and great for any kind of pasta you want. It’s a nice change from your normal marinara.  (more…)

When deciding what to make this week for the blog, I found this ragu in my notes. It literally said, “Made the most awesome ragu tonight! eggplant, carrots, onion, garlic, zucchini, summer squash, kalamata olives, tomato paste, beef.” That’s what I had to go on and i wrote it down about 3 years ago. With a note like that, I had to make it…and make a recipe for it! (more…)

Indian Butter Eggplant (Nethi Vankaya)

Here’s another Indian recipe from a co-worker, Butter Eggplant. She brought this in for work for lunch one day. I asked what it was and she told me. It smelled so good so I immediately started to google for a recipe. None of the recipes I was seeing was what she was eating. So after a while I asked her if she would share the recipe with me. Finding out, this is specific to her region in a part of…

Roasted Poblano Mashed Potatoes

When I was making my Peruvian Style Chicken with Green Sauce I needed a side. My friend who was our guinea pig for the night had bought some poblano peppers at the farmers market and wanted to know if I could use them for dinner. I thought for a second how good those would be roasted but what to do with them. I dawned on me that they would be great added to mashed potatoes and garnished with…

Peruvian Style Chicken with Green Sauce

Earlier this year we went to a Peruvian restaurant; the same restaurant we had the garlic rice at (causing me to recreate it). My friend ordered this roasted chicken covered in this wonderful green sauce. It smelled and looked amazing. He was kind enough to give us all a case of this wonderful dish. I had to have it again. I searched all over the internet looking for a recipe. I finally found one…

Salsa chicken is what you end up with when you buy some green salsa at the store that was just a little bit too hot for you to eat with chips. It’s true! We didn’t want to throw it out since it was tasty, so I thought if I diluted it down a bit and cooked it with chicken it would mellow out the flavor. It worked.  (more…)

I had a craving for some egg rolls. I bought some wrappers some time ago and found them in the freezer the other day so figured it was a sign to make these! I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to put in them, so I thought of all the best flavors I’d had in egg rolls and what sounded good to my palate and came up with these. Simple, tasty, and only a few ingredients; just how I like to cook!…