Cheesy sausage stuffed manicotti

You ever have one of those nights where you just want to hide?  That was my Monday night when I made this dish.  The joy and joyness of Spring in Indiana is one day the weather can go from a pleasant and sunny 60 degrees all the way down to a cold and wet 30 […]

Simple BBQ Base Recipe

In keeping with the spring themes of grilling/BBQ I have decided that some love needs to be shown for BBQ sauce.  Most people when they think of BBQ sauce just think of the stuff that is in squeeze bottles and has a shelf life equal to the half life of uranium.  However, BBQ sauce is […]

Stuffed Bell Peppers

This post marks a new era for me in that I have finally joined the Digital SLR revolution (revolution will be televised across living rooms and the great divide).  Went with the Nikon D60 and mucho thanks to my buddy Richard for his patience as I ask a ton of questions/sending him test photos.  This […]

Spicy Lime Ginger Pork Loin

How the heck do you people think of names for dishes?  I have resorted to basically just throwing the majority of ingredients into the title from here on out.  Apparently I lack massive amounts of creativity.
This marinade worked really well with pork loin.  Even though it has a lot of powerful ingredients behind it the […]

Chocolate covered bacon now with 30% more sprinkles

Before you think I have flipped my lid, got insane, forgot my medication, and am back to running in traffic give me a second to explain the reasoning behind this dish.  I have a close friend who is a children librarian and every year she hosts a program which the theme is gross foods.  The […]

Pork Shoulder Cooked in Sauerkraut

I did a very similar recipe to this a couple months ago that instead of using pork it used chicken thighs.  However, I will reiterate again pork and sauerkraut belong together.  I like to think that chicken thighs were just the evil mistress who swayed sauerkraut away for one night in a desperate attempt to […]

Pastitsio

Last week I started planning what I was going to cook during the week and paging through the latest Food and Wine I noticed ohh…Greek food was being featured and *gasp* pastitsio was one of the recipes.  Holy crap how could I have forgotten about the joy and joyness that is pastitsio?? This definitely had […]

Chicken, Shrimp and Andouille Sausage Jambalaya

If memory serves me right (I was a little hazy and on a two day bender in New Orleans when I was talking with the chef about jambalaya) there are two distinct types of jambalaya, cajun and creole.  The major difference between the two is that creole jambalaya has the addition of tomatoes.  Past the […]

Andouille and chicken gumbo

A friend of mine had requested for dinner that I make gumbo.  Ok I have to admit it has been ages since I have made gumbo which is sad because I love cajun/creole cooking and New Orleans is one of my favorite cities to visit next to good old Las Vegas. 
The key to a good gumbo […]

Baked Pork Chops in a tomato sauce

Have a couple entries submitted in for the chili cook off (click here to read more) so Woo Hoo!!
 If you are not a pork fan fear not because chicken would work perfectly for this dish.
For this recipe you will need:

Pork chops
Rosemary
Thyme
10 whole unpeeled garlic cloves
4 ounces of mushrooms finely sliced
2 shallots or 1/2 of an onion
1 jalapeno finely diced
1 […]

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