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How about a filling and delicious potato chowder recipe – perfect for a late fall/early winter dinner? This is an easy, tasty, and filling chowder that can be augmented and adjusted to meet any desired flavor profile. Add clams and clam juice for a hearty clam chowder. Add flaky white fish like cod for a tasty fish chowder. Even chicken can be used to create a creamy chicken chowder, using herbes de provence to enrich the flavor. But today, let’s keep it simple – just a potato bacon chowder. Save Print Potato Bacon Chowder Prep time: 15 mins Cook time: 45 mins Total time: 1 hour Serves: 2 Ingredients 5 oz thick-cut bacon, cut into lardons (approximately 4-5…
Here is the recipe for last night’s dinner which used up the leftovers from the Smoked Turkey Breast I recently made. This dish is a perfect example of how to enjoy one delicious meal that is nearly impossible to scale into a single serving and use the feast’s leftovers for a second, equally delicious meal. The concept is as old as the traditional Thanksgiving turkey dinner that uses the leftovers for dishes like turkey pot pie and/or turkey tetrazzini and/or turkey noodle soup and others. This dish is also a fabulous comfort food experience that need not wait until Thanksgiving to enjoy. And surprisingly enough, it is not incredibly time-consuming and is quite flexible. So if you are looking to enjoy…
Last night I threw a clambake party for some friends – sort of an end of the summer bash with a feast of seafood. In all actuality, the guys were here to help me with a foil packet clambake recipe I was working on… I needed taste testers. The party was a success as my friends devoured the results with everyone completely satisfied with the mixture of clams, prawns, lobster, linguiça, corn, and potatoes slathered in seasoned butter, aromatics, and fresh herbs. Here are the pictures – compliments of one of the guests! A deconstructed Caprese Salad Clambake Close-up Dessert – compliments of one of the guests (and Metropolitan Market) Yalumba Antique Tawny and Brown Butter Pear Tart. I hope to post the recipe at…
What goes better with fresh baked bread than a hearty stew! Well, fast on the heels of the No Knead Dutch Oven Bread comes this lamb stew with vegetables and Guinness. Yep, that’s right… we are cooking with beer here. I am not much of a beer drinker, but I do like Guinness – so this recipe was a must make. This recipe is a variant of the one on Jenn Segal’s Once Upon a Chef website and scaled down for 2 people (or 1 person and leftovers!). In reality, this recipe is a straightforward stew so there are no surprises here. The surprise is in the hearty, delicious results complimented beautifully with the fresh bread made earlier. With the unseasonably cool and…
Winter is still gripping the Pacific Northwest and this means perfect weather for using the oven for a lengthy roast like a beef roast. I am sure many of us remember growing up with the weekly beef roast dinner. Perhaps is was a beef chuck roast cooked in a liquid paired with potatoes and a green salad. It sounds very boring compared to the meals we enjoy now, but there is beauty in this simplicity. But let’s face it… the typical beef roast is way too much for one person. And given that one of the driving factors for this blog is to show you how to make meals without having to ‘enjoy’ it for seven days straight, this meal was just begging…
Tonight I made a flavorful soup for a cold winter night using the rest of the potatoes and cabbage I had from last week’s shopping. The basic recipe comes from Rachel Ray, but of course, I changed it. The primary changes were to add hickory smoked bacon and two types of paprika, something I felt would provide depth of flavor. To be honest, I would expect to see this recipe in a Central or Eastern European home cookbook with all it has going on. This recipe does make more than 1 serving, so expect leftovers… which is not a bad thing! Save Print Kielbasa, Cabbage and Potato Soup Prep time: 20 mins Cook time: 1 hour 15 mins Total time: 1 hour…
Today I am sharing a recipe I received via a friend for oven baked crispy french fries. Much like mashed potatoes for one, I bet french fries are something most people do not make at home, especially if you are cooking for one. The myriad of problems with deep frying at home to get the desired results are just not worth the effort. That’s why I jumped on this oven baked option. And of course, I have twisted it slightly based on the most delicious french fries I can recall ever eating – the togarishi french fries at Redfin in Seattle (that unfortunately has since closed). I challenge you to try this recipe… and even create your own special fry seasoning, sharing your results in…
Leftovers… they are going to occur sometime, especially around the holidays or other large group meals. Well, I had mashed potatoes left from the duchess potatoes I made for Christmas dinner, so I was challenged with what to make with them. In contemplating what dish to cook that would use up these delicious mashed potatoes, one thing came to mind… shepherd’s pie. Easy to make and oh so delicious, now I am eager for dinner. Using frozen vegetables like petite corn and a pea and carrot mix just enhances the simplicity of this dish. Of course I had some of my ground beef, pork, and lamb mix in the freezer as well, so all that was left was to put it together. Shall we…
Tonight I made a delicious and simple Hungarian stew based on a recipe I found online from Chef Clara Czegeny. This dish uses Hungarian spicy smoked sausage like Csabai Kolbász and potatoes as the primary ingredients. Add to those basics two different types of Hungarian paprika and you can imagine the wonderfully robust flavors you are about to enjoy. Of course, I tweaked the recipe slightly – adding diced roasted red pepper and a sectioned carrot – because I wanted to incorporate just a slight sweetness to balance out the spice and earthiness. This dish comes together quick and easy, so it is perfect any night of the week. Are you ready to take a quick trip to Hungary to satisfy your hunger? I am! Save Print…
Ok… I know you read the title and went ‘Huh?’, right? Well today for lunch I gave homage to a tasty childhood meal – wieners and fried potatoes. I think the wieners available locally that taste closest to what I enjoyed (and remember) as a child are Bavarian Meats wieners. Preparation of the wieners is simple – just heat in hot water for 10 minutes (not boiling, you don’t want the casing to break!) and serve with mustard, horseradish, sauerkraut or on a bun. The fried potatoes are simple too. I like mine with skins, so I clean the potatoes well, slice using my mandolin for uniform thickness, and just pan fry over medium heat in a tablespoon each of vegetable oil and…