Want to make gravy in advance, so it’s ready to grace your sizzling meat as soon as it comes off the grill? This mushroom gravy is it. After dinner, stir the pan juices into the leftover gravy and you have ammo for another meal later in the week.
Dinner
The category “dinner” will retrieve main courses and sides. If you’re looking only for main courses, or only for sides, choose those categories instead.
Bacon Wrapped Chicken Thighs Stuffed with Portobellos, Rosemary, Pistachio, and Goat Cheese
(Bacon Wrapped) Chicken Thighs Stuffed with Portobellos, Rosemary, Pistachio, and Goat Cheese. Need I say more? Whether or not I need to, I will: elevated, sophisticated, almost too good to be home cooking.
Spaghetti with Sun Dried Tomato Almond Pesto
Spaghetti with Sun Dried Tomato Almond Pesto (and a touch of garlic): a zesty pasta sprinkled with fresh, seasoned, breadcrumbs and drizzled with olive oil
Garlicky Brats and Pasta with Parmesan
Garlicky Brats and Pasta with Parmesan: you can make this powerful comfort food with any kind of sausage, but I chose an exotic, artisan bratwurst from my local butcher.
Pasta Salad with Fresh Cod Is Refreshingly Different
Pasta Salad with Fresh Cod is surprisingly good. Check out the recipe. I really love it: it’s light, refreshing, different, and very much a comfort food. Excellent as a main course, but also interesting as a side.
Foil-Baked Cod with Ginger, Orange, and Cumin
Foil-Baked Cod with Ginger, Orange, and Cumin. And spinach. It’s wonderful, no fuss, hardly any clean-up … it almost clears the table and does the dishes afterward. That’s how good it is.
Meatballs with Ricotta, in a Simple, Delicious Broth
Recipe for beefy meatballs with ricotta, in a simple, delicious broth made with stock and milk: easy, quick, everyday cooking that reheats well
Masa Cornbread
This Masa Cornbread is made with corn flour as well as cornmeal (and it’s got kernels of corn, to boot). It’s a very moist, almost custardy cornbread.
Gluten-Free Taco Night
Gluten-Free Taco Night with steak tacos, homemade corn tortillas and homemade refried beans, plus blackberry margarita punch (tequila, cassis, ginger beer)