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Halloweenies – A Ghoulishly Good Recipe

by Jerry on October 27, 2010

At first glance you might think that these little guys are sad and looking for their mummies, but on closer inspection you’ll see that they’re all just waiting for a dip in the hot tub. (OK, I couldn’t pass up the mummy joke, sorry.)

Sometimes simple is better, and it doesn’t get a whole lot simpler than this when it comes to appetizers.  Just cocktail sausages wrapped in refrigerated crescent dough and served with a side of mustard, spiced with your favorite hot sauce or horseradish and you’ve got yourself a wiener! (I know. It’s bad, but I can’t help myself!)

These little guys make a perfect party opener, but be warned, too many and your guests won’t want dinner.  They’re filling!  we used beef Lil’ Smokies for this one, but any cocktail wiener you can find will do just as well, I’m sure.  They’re great hot out of the oven or at room temp and can be served with ketchup for kids too little to appreciate a good mustard. (Or adults that just don’t like mustard, for that matter)

Any way you serve them, they’re sure to be a hit!

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Spicy Sausage Soup Recipe

October 13, 2010 Recipes

It seems that fall has fallen in most of the country.  At least that’s the impression I’ve gotten from the seemingly countless number of cool weather recipes I’m seeing around the food community. I hear stories of chill mornings and rain.  Tales of clouds and worries of frost.

We haven’t been so lucky yet.  In my neck of the woods, temperatures are still in the 80′s and will probably be …

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Sausage Gravy, a Southern Staple

June 25, 2010 Recipes

While I’ve shared a basic Southern gravy recipe here before, if you’re thinking of making biscuits and gravy it can’t be done with restaurant style gravy. It must be made with sausage gravy.  Sausage gravy is a Southern staple.  It can be found in nearly every restaurant and diner in the South and the Southwest and is undoubtedly made in nearly every home in the area as well.

Nothing quite …

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Fettuccine with Spinach and Sausage

March 10, 2010 Recipes

Cooking for three growing boys has its challenges.  They may always be hungry, but having been raised up to this point on primarily convenient foods, they have a very limited idea of what is acceptable to eat.  Unfortunately for me, just about any vegetable that I consider to be amazing is not currently on that list.

After months of trying to accommodate their wants with a real need to get …

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Italian Omelet

January 12, 2010 Recipes

I think I was 19 the first time I tried this dish. I think I had it at Don Taylor’s Omelette Express in Santa Rosa California, but if so, it’s no longer on their menu. No matter where it was that I tried this dish the first time, I was an instant convert.

Omelets are one of my culinary weaknesses.  For me they are on the same order of …

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The Full Monty Python – Spam Egg Sausage and Spam Sandwich Recipe

March 27, 2009 Recipes

If there’s one thing that makes this particular venue stand apart from all the others like it, it’s that I have always pushed the idea that food should be fun. Honestly, what’s the point in slaving over a hot stove in a hot kitchen if you aren’t having any fun doing it?  Just once this week, this month or this year, walk into the kitchen and make something that’s just …

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Sausage and Cheese Frittata Recipe

December 16, 2008 Recipes

Frittata…  It sounds so alien, so elegant, so scary and difficult!  But if you think of it as what it really is, you’ll quickly learn to embrace the wonder that is a frittata.  you’ll find yourself eating them far too often.  You may make your family sick of them in a hurry, but you’ll never look back.

While the word Frittata may conjure some air of elegance and difficulty, it’s …

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Asian Noodles with Sausage, Onions, Red Peppers and Peas Recipe

November 3, 2008 Recipes

The Holiday Season is here.  That means that in the next day or so this blog is going to be full of baked goodies, cookies, candies and mounds of Holiday-style comfort food goodness.  But what will the food blogger himself be eating through all of this? Probably something a lot like the dish pictured above.

This lunch, like many I find myself eating lately, is the result of having very …

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Smoky Sausage Ragout Redux, a blogiversary tale

January 11, 2008 Recipes

One year ago today this blog posted its very first recipe. That first dish was truly “by the seat of my pants” cooking, and though not the most glamorous I’ve ever done, it’s still something I’m quite fond of. The photo… Horrible. That first day saw three visitors. My wife, a friend of the family and myself. All of us were amazed that I’d actually started this thing, though I’m …

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Spicy Kielbasa and Vegetable Soup recipe

November 15, 2007 Recipes

With the days getting cooler and the nights downright chilly there’s nothing like a nice hot bowl of hearty soup to warm both body and spirit. Add a little extra kick to that soup and it tingles the tongue as well. If you don’t mind taking a bite of something that’s going to bite back a bit, this soup is for you.

This was just a quick toss together for …

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