Roasting vegetables is great and can accommodate all sorts of options, but sometimes I’m not in the mood for cooked vegetables and would prefer something a little lighter. Which is why I started looking around for another recipe similar to my Tomato Cucumber Salad recipe, which is light, cold and simply a tasty combo of […]
Stovetop Corn Grits
I grew up in Kentucky and never ate grits as a child. It is embarrassing. And even more embarrassing is that I didn’t eat grits at home for a lot of my adult life, I never took the time to learn how after moving out, getting married and having kids. Shame on me. Seriously. But […]
Single Ingredient Potato Latkes
This single ingredient potato latkes recipe is not something that I came up with myself, but rather a recipe my wife forwarded to me from the New York Times cooking section recently. I have already learned a few different latke recipes over the years, pretty hard to go wrong, including my grandmother’s, which I don’t […]
Boiled Eggs, Soft or Hard
This may very well end up being the shortest blog post I have ever included on this site, and yet, totally worthwhile. * Spoiler alert, I just reread this post, and it’s not close to the shortest post I’ve included on this site, it’s actually one of the longer ones, sorry. * But please remember […]
Baked Cauliflower Tots
Here’s another recipe that I could not have foreseen myself making when I was younger. Cauliflower tots? Um, no thanks, as a young man who just assumed that a life of fried chicken, tater tots and soda were ahead of me, I had absolutely no need for vegetables! But life seems to have a way […]
Baked Homemade Tater Tots
It’s been a few years since I first started reducing the number of packaged and processed food items in my house, and overall my family has been enthusiastic and very supportive. For the most part. There have been a few items that have been harder to skip or replace than I would have suspected. For […]