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Monterey Chicken Cobb Salad
Monterey Chicken Cobb Salad. Of all the ways to transform a boring piece of chicken breast, Monterey style is a surefire move towards flavor wow! I mean…chicken, bbq sauce, bacon, cheese, diced tomato, and your favorite aromatics. Quintessential ‘Layers of Flavor.”
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Braciola {Italian Beef Rolls}
Braciole {Italian Beef Rolls} slowly simmered in spicy Arrabbiata sauce until the beef is fork tender. The filling, comprised of parmesan cheese, fresh parsley, Italian bread crumbs, garlic, toasted pine nuts, and hard-boiled egg, is my loose interpretation of this classic Italian dish.
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Loaded Wedge Salad
Flipping through the pages of this month’s Food Network Magazine and nodding out loud while I acknowledge their feature article on The Wedge Salad. No matter how you serve it, the crisp cool crunch of iceberg lettuce underneath savory toppings is simply hard to beat.
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Fish & Chip Bites {with Crispy Caper Tartar Sauce}
Lightly beer battered fish nuggets, perched on crispy caper tartar sauce slathered onto thick cut chips. Now that’s a mouthful of love. We’ll call these our Fish & Chip Bites {with Crispy Caper Tartar Sauce}. The perfect Friday night nibbles.
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Crispy Caper Tartar Sauce
It’s nice to have a knock your socks off tartar sauce recipe up your sleeve. This Crispy Caper Tartar Sauce is sure to impress with the addition of anchovies, hard-boiled eggs and crispy fried capers. Flavor wow!!
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Tuna Melt Grilled Cheese Sliders
Sometimes a recipe comes to me based on one single ingredient. In this case it was a gorgeous Kimmelweck roll in the case at the bakery. I couldn’t wait to get home and make tuna melts for lunch. I promptly proceeded to burn the bun. With all other ingredients gathered I turned to my freezer to find the tail end of a pack of Party Rye. And that is how the Tuna Melt Grilled Cheese Slider was born.
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Crab Louie Salad Sliders
Crab Louie Salad Sliders. The Crab Louie Salad has been around for over 100 years and first became popular on the West Coast of the United States (or was it King Louie himself who first dined on this salad…the world may never know). The salad consists of crisp lettuce, sliced tomato, hard boiled eggs, ripe olives, sometimes asparagus….and of course gorgeous crab meat which is tossed in Crab Louie Dressing.
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Lunch Counter Style Chef’s Salad
We had a good old fashioned Lunch Counter Style Chef’s Salad for dinner last night. It had been years since I’ve had one. Once the salad revolution transformed how we view salads, some of the old standards have been slowly forgotten. I can say with certainty that there’s a reason the Chef’s Salad was on most menus for decades. It’s delicious and a completely satisfying meal.
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Scotch Egg Sauce
Scotch Egg Sauce. ‘Scotch’ as in hard-cooked, not hard-liquor. This sauce brought back memories. The first bite gave me a warm familiar feeling and I remembered creamed eggs over toast. A breakfast for dinner meal we ate as kids and apparently liked. Looking back, it may have been one of the easiest (and affordable) meals Mom could get on the table in a hurry. I’m sure she ‘sold’ it in such a way that made it a favorite. So many things I’d like to ask her.
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The Wedge Salad {and Grinching Away Christmas}
Today’s the day. The day I dread each January. Taking down the Christmas decorations, or as we call it….Grinching Away Christmas. Every year I procrastinate. Drag it out until the very last minute. The house just doesn’t feel the same without them. The lights of the tree warm the room and my soul. I hear trips being made to the basement….this is really going to happen today. Ugh! Can we just have a Wedge Salad instead.
