• Corned Beef Hash and Egg Sandwich

    My two favorite breakfasts are either corned beef hash, or eggs benedict. I had leftover corned beef, as we all do right now, so I decided to sort of combine the two breakfasts, but in sandwich form, and without the fussy hollandaise sauce. It took me like 10 minutes to pull this together, and it was a perfect hangover remedy yesterday morning.

  • Papadum Nachos with Tandoori Chicken

    When you go to a mexican restaurant, they bring you free chips and salsa to enjoy. When you go to an Indian restaurant, they bring you free papadum with chutney to enjoy. This similarity got me thinking, why not make some loaded nachos with all Indian ingredients instead of Mexican. So that’s what I did!

  • Corned Beef and a Cabbage Slaw on Sweet Potato Steamed Buns

    Corned beef, potato, carrot, cabbage. Sounds like boiled dinner, not Asian influenced sliders. But I adapted all these ingredients this past weekend for a lazy afternoon with some friends. These little sandwiches came out awesome, and would be perfect to make with your corned beef leftovers from this weekend!  Cheers to 1000 blog posts!

  • Beet, Bean, and Broccoli Rabe Soup

    Also known as Triple B soup! Doing soup Mondays this winter has been great. I really enjoyed coming up with new soup ideas week after week. Since the beginning of 2013, I have been eating pretty healthy, and the weekly soups have been a fun chance to try mixing new veggies in different ways. This is going to be the last soup Monday of the season, but you can be sure it will be back when the weather turns chilly come November.

  • Chicken Habanero Meatballs with a Mango Dipping Sauce

    Speaking of birthdays, people came over to my place this weekend for mine, and I wanted to make a little snack for everyone to eat before we went out. My first idea was meatballs, but when I eat a few of my normal meatballs, I end up with garlic breath and heartburn all night, and I didn’t want that for myself or any of my guests. Instead I whipped up this new spicy variety. Light with chicken and pork instead of beef, less garlic than normal, a little habanero to get the blood flowing, and instead of the heavy red sauce, a simple puree of mango to dip in. They were a big hit, and didn’t bog anyone down for the long night ahead.

  • Lucky Charms Cheesecake

    For people’s birthdays, I often play mad libs with their favorite ingredients to make a cake for them. It was my co-worker’s birthday last week and as the boss, I felt like I should make her a cake, but I didn’t know what she liked. I said I was doing a survey for my “other job” (this one), and asked some questions, like, “What is your favorite sweet, candy, nut, cereal, and snack?”  After weighing the options, I thought this Lucky Charms Cheesecake would be the most fun choice.

  • Jalapeno Boiled Fettuccine in a Bacon Cream Sauce

    I think this idea came from an old episode of Iron Chef where Bobby Flay cooks some pasta in jalapeno juice. One of my favorite things to cook with jalapeno is bacon, and it seems to be a very popular thing these days. There is even jalapeno crusted bacon in the grocery store! You would think that this dish is all bold intense flavors, but it actually came out more subtle and perfectly balanced. Boiling the pasta in jalapeno juice didn’t give it a crazy spicy taste, but rather imparted the true jalapeno flavor with just a little bit of the heat that it is so well known for. This was a fairly easy dish with unique and delicious flavors that I would highly suggest anyone who has a juicer to make immediately.

  • Pork, Lentil, and Black Rice Collard Greens

    This is one of those deceptively delicious dishes. It looks plain, and is easy to make, yet somehow tastes incredible. I was even tricked again with the leftovers. I didn’t want to eat them cause I thought they didn’t look that good, but yet again, amazing! The pressure cooker makes it all much quicker, but you could easily do this one in a dutch oven or any decent pot.

  • Ugly Soup

    God this soup is so ugly. The good news is that it is healthy and tastes amazing. But yea, it looks like puke. I came home from work and decided to make an easy and healthy soup with stuff that I had lying around the house, and this was the result. It’s kinda like when you are a kid and you think if you combine all the colors in the crayon box you will make this awesome new color but it just turns out greenish black. Luckily, the flavor was the opposite of ugly.