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Arroz con Pollo, Puerto Rican Style for #SundaySupper

Thumbnail image for Arroz con Pollo, Puerto Rican Style for #SundaySupper by Jerry 24 comments July 21, 2012 Recipes
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Welcome to another installment of #SundaySupper, hosted this week by the always lovely Isabel at Family Foodie. For this week’s Sunday Supper we were asked to make a recipe from the Mom 100 Cookbook by Katie Workman. This might have posed a challenge, as I don’t happen to own to this particular cookbook (What with [...]

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Hedgehog Meatballs and Chili Dog Pie for #SundaySupper

Thumbnail image for Hedgehog Meatballs and Chili Dog Pie for #SundaySupper by Jerry 51 comments July 7, 2012 Recipes
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This weeks Sunday supper is about kids in the kitchen. That’s a good thing. As parents we should encourage our kids to help out, both in the creative process and in the execution of meals. Both recipes in this post were designed to make my Sonic the Hedgehog loving 5 year-old feel better about trying [...]

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Mexican Rice (Red Chile Rice)

Thumbnail image for Mexican Rice (Red Chile Rice) by Jerry 2 comments February 23, 2012 Recipes
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Lisa Fain may have just saved me from ever setting foot in another over hyped super-chain Tex-Mex restaurant. If you don’t know who Lisa is by name, I’m sure you’re already familiar with her blog, The Homesick Texan or her cookbook, The Homesick Texan Cookbook; which I will be reviewing in the next few days. But how [...]

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Chicken Pilaf with Cilantro

by Jerry 3 comments February 19, 2012 Recipes
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If you’re looking for a simple, succulent, silky addition to any meal, this is it. A true classic from Dallas, TX, originally chronicled in The Great American Cookbook, by Clementine Paddleford. This is my take on Mrs. A. L. DeGuire’s chicken pilaf, a truly gorgeous dish. While some may argue that pilaf is not an [...]

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Andouille Sausage and Rice Soup

Thumbnail image for Andouille Sausage and Rice Soup by Jerry 2 comments October 22, 2011 Recipes
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The weather in Alaska has, as would be expected, gotten rather cool over the past few weeks.  The thought of a light dinner is no longer on anyone’s mind.  It’s time for hearty soups, stews and slow cooked comfort food meals with tons of flavor that will help keep you warm through a long, cold [...]

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Braised Smoked Ham Shank with Beans and Rice Recipe

by Jerry 3 comments October 11, 2010 Recipes
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I’ve said it before and I will most definitely say it again.  Simple foods are the best foods.  Some of the most sought after dishes in the world are inspired by what were once food for the poor only. Meals that were originally intended to stretch a few meager ingredients until they couldn’t be stretched [...]

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Spam Fried Rice with Nori

by Jerry 8 comments September 27, 2010 Recipes
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Cooking for kids can be a serious challenge.  The things I find fabulous, they tend to balk at.  The things they crave I either balk at or am completely burned out on.  Sometimes I just have to take a gamble, try something different and pray that it works out. This is complicated by the fact [...]

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Sauteed Shrimp with Tomato (Domatesli Karides Sote)

by Jerry 17 comments September 26, 2010 Recipes
Sauteed Shrimp with Tomato (Domatesli Karides Sote)

For the second installment of Project Food Blog, the folks at FoodBuzz asked that we step outside our comfort zones and create a dish from a cuisine that we were unfamiliar with.  What’s more, we had to keep it authentic.  The problem for me is that I’m pretty comfortable with many cuisines and that I [...]

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Poached Cod with Sweet Pepper and Tomato

by Jerry 5 comments June 16, 2010 Recipes

Summer dishes should be quick.  Who wants to stand in a hot kitchen when you could be out enjoying the weather or escaping the heat in the pool?  There are other, better uses for your time in the long days of summer than standing in front of a stove. (Unless you happen to be a [...]

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Pork and Pepper Curry Recipe

by Jerry 3 comments May 10, 2010 Recipes

What do you serve when you have two teenaged nephews over for the weekend in a house already populated by four men?  When you know that the two people visiting are capable of consuming the gross food production of some small island nations all by themselves in a single sitting?  Casserole came to mind, but [...]

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