Shepherd’s Pie is as traditional as it gets if you are a whitey like me. A one pot hot dish, vegetable and meat stew topped with mashed potatoes, it is what I crave when the weather turns chilly and I’m…
Panzanella Salad
With our bumper crop of little tomatoes, even Atti can’t eat them all. Despite his best efforts. So I needed a way I could gorge on them in actual meal form. Enter this perfect traditional bread salad from Italy. It’s…
Crock Pot Swiss Steak Pot Roast
This was one of the very first recipes I ever shared here on the blog, but in the years since I first posted it I’ve fine tuned the recipe and figured it was time to add photos and video. Gosh…
Creamy Chicken Crepes
I really kind of can’t believe I haven’t blogged this recipe before. This has been a part of our family repertoire since before we were a family. It was, like, the *one* “fancy” thing my mom ever made and each…
Homemade Vegetable Soup
It’s another rainy day here, in most of California that’s as close to a winter storm as we get, and I haven’t been feeling great this week, so I just want to make myself a big cocoon. I’m wrapped in…
Recipe: Homemade Taco Sauce
I had so many tomatoes this year, I could afford to go beyond salsa. And since we’ve become addicted to pouring a red taco sauce on all our Mexican food, I knew right were to take the leftovers. Tresa’s Taco…
Recipe: Potato, Sausage and Bean Tapas
Tapas is my idea of a perfect meal. I love variety, I love lots of little bits of wonderful, and I love the gorgeous flavors of Spanish food. The only problem with it is going to a tapas restaurant and…
Recipe: Caesar Steak Sandwich
It’s the middle of summer and right at the peak of the time when I don’t want to cook. I was not made for warm weather and so right about now I do my best to be as still as…
Pea Pancakes with bacon and sour cream
My family will almost never eat vegetables. And when they will eat them, there’s a very short list of which ones they’ll eat. When I first heard about the trend of hiding vegetables in other foods through purees I got…
Recipe: Corn and Bacon Pasta
Lately I’ve been looking for really simple recipes that I can make a simple meal out of. I will never give up my meat and sauces, but sometimes it’s nice to just cut back and go for something easy to…