While in Alaska, I had a chance to spend a few days with my high school friend. She saw an episode of Good Eats called “Tender is the Loin” on Netflix about making your own filet mignon out of a whole beef tenderloin. We had to try it! It worked out fabulously, and were SO…
Here we go again with the lower-carb version of a “real” recipe. My mom always made cabbage rolls every fall because we had a humongous garden and always had giant cabbages. (Alaskans grow the biggest!) So we had a lot of cabbage, and carrots and potatoes and turnips. Still don’t like turnips. We used to…
Even I, apparently, can get tired of Asian flavors. I have a couple of skirt steaks – things that must be marinaded – and yesterday I made my bulgogi recipe with one, but today I didn’t want more Asian food, so I went in the pantry to see what I could find. I had…
The kiddo ordered something called a Mexican burger off the menu at Denny’s a few years ago, and though I don’t make them often, they are super delicious and just as easy as making a “normal” burger, only instead of a bun, you serve them on soft tortilla wraps – I get the low-carb variety.…
My dad had these cookbooks called Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices by George Leonard Herter and Berthe E. Herter from Waseca, Minnesota in the late 1960’s. It was a set of 2 cookbooks with shiny gold covers, and they were made for manly, hunting, fishing, outdoorsy men. There is history in it, from…
Finding new ways to make very low-carb meals can sometimes be challenging. Sometimes I don’t want to go search out a recipe so I start throwing things together and hope for the best. Tonight I threw together a winner. I went to the farm market to stock up on veggies and they had these huge…
This recipe is Just Like Mom’s because it is my mom’s recipe. Sloppy Joe was always a favorite in our house, especially when she made fresh-baked bread with it. It was for cold winter evenings, and in my memories we sat in the living room and watched TV while we ate. This is her recipe…
The bulgogi recipe is Korean and the bean sprout recipe is Japanese – or at least I tried to imitate the fabulous stir fried bean sprouts that I get at one of my favorite Japanese restaurants in town – and the only rice I had left in my kitchen was some purple Thai, so we’re going…Asian…
Try this … Instead of stopping for my usual fast food treat – I live in a neighborhood where I can get basically any kind of food you can think of (from Indian to Persian to Chinese to pizza to KFC to burgers and fries to… well, you get the picture) on my way home…
Beef stew is one of the easiest things to make, in my opinion, and a comfort food favorite in our house. I couldn’t even tell you the number of times I came home in the cold (remember I’m from Alaska) and step into the house to the scent of beef stew simmering in the crock…
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