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Mains

Campanelle Pasta with Sausage and Cherry Tomatoes

It’s pasta wednesday again. The thought of having what the kids want (noodles, jar sauce!) fills you with dread.

Snacks

Smoked Trout Dip

Savory smoky goodness, with a touch of lemon. This dip is perfection on a cracker. Spread liberally and enjoy thoroughly.

Salad

Shredded chicken salad with carrot, ginger dressing

It might be the most uneaten thing in sushi joints, but I dig the side salad.

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Butternut Squash, Kale, and Bacon tacos

It was Tuesday. You know what that means…. TACOS! But after a long stretch of eating old school crunchy tacos, I needed something different.

Mains

Ritz Cracker Cod

Ritz crackers hold a special place in the pantheon of crackers. Golden, buttery, slightly salty, crisp but yielding, and addictive.

Snacks

Gochujang Kim Chee Dip

Deep chili flavor from gochujan, tangy pickled deliciousneess from kim chee, spiciness from both tempered by cream cheese balanaced on top of a cool ranch dorito. Can you imagine anything better?

Mains

Roast Pork Shoulder with Rosemary and Garlic

Rosemary + garlic + pork slow roasted?!? Yes please!!!

Sides

Whipped Sweet Potatoes

Super awesome whipped sweet potatoes with dill and creme fraiche. The perfect foil for that juicy steak you know you want to have.

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Cauliflower Parm

Delicious and healthy alternative to Chicken Parm. It’s easy to make too!

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Shrimp Creole

Easy shrimp creole with deliciousness maximized. Perfect for a quick Fat Tuesday feast.

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Pork Tenderloin Medallions with Mushrooms

It’s winter! That means wintery things. Warm, delicious comfort food that makes you forget the freezing cold you have to fight every day. It also means fighting the battle of the bulge.

Dessert

Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate Oreo Ice Cream

Amazing chocolate ice cream, with chocolate chips, chocolate chunks, and chocolate oreos. Best chocolate ice cream ever? Yeah probably.

Soup

Chicken and Farro Soup

A comforting chicken soup with farro and kale that’s tasty, filling, and good for you. Perfect for lunch or a light dinner.

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White Bean Cakes

Meatless monday magic. Savory bean cakes, creamy egg, peppery arugala bright dressing. Deliciousness Maximized.

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Shrimp and Grits

Southern goodness. Classic for brunch with a glass of California chardonnay. Great for dinner with a light Pinot Noir. Comforting any time of day, and dead easy to make.

Salad

Farro and Butternut Squash Salad

A simple fall salad pairing farro and squash with a sherry mustard vinaigrette. Classy, easy, good for you. Perfect for a meatless Monday dinner.

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Sea Bass, Artichokes, Cherry Tomato

Kick ass, Sea bass! Pan seared sea bass, crispy artichokes, kicking sauce. Deliciousness Maximized.

Dessert

Peach Crumble

Peach Crumble, FTW. Deliciousness maximized by crumbly shortbread backed with baked peaches and topped with ice cream. Yum.

Mains

Mississippi Roast

If you haven’t made Mississippi Roast yet, you need to drop everything and go to the grocery store to get yourself a chuck roast. This stuff is amazing.

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Steak Kebat

Steak Kebat: Delicious steak, soft but crisp onions, juicy tomato, beautiful spice blend with a bit of kick to keep you company. Try this once, and you’ll be making it again and again and again and…..

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Chicken, Artichoke, White Wine

Super awesome weeknight chicken backed up by artichokes, capers, and white wine. Yumm and totally keto.

Soup

Cannellini Beans, Sausage, Kale Soup

Creamy beans, earthy kale, a note of sweetness from the carrot, a slight kick of peppery heat from the sausage and we are winning.

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Shaking Beef

Deliciously tender beef nuggets, basked in a one-two-three punch of oyster, fish, and soy sauce, on top of a raft of greens that could even be considered vaguely healthy.

Salad

Chicken Salad

Chicken salad doesn’t have to suck. It is actually awesome. Try this one and you’ll agree.

Salad

Skirt Steak, Farro, and Arugula Salad

Steak and farro with lemon vinaigrette and arugula make for an awesome salad. This one will end up on your regular rotation.

Soup

Potato Leek Soup

Didn’t someone once say soup is good food? They were almost right. It’s great food. In fact, it makes a perfect lunch.

Salad

Broccoli Salad

A fresh salad to fight those pandemic pounds. It has broccoli, and zucchini, and bacon!

Breakfast

Chorizo Potato Hash with Fried Eggs

Be a breakfast hero. Or a dinner hero for that matter. Make hash. This version is warmingly spicy and supremely comforting.

Mains

Smoked Tri-Tip

Sultry. Complex. On the surface, cut from standard cloth, but when tasting it turns out exotic and rich. That is smoked tri-tip.

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Mushroom Bourguignon

Do you have a vegan friend coming over? Has your SO decided that this is the year you will finally adhere to meatless monday? Are you plant-based curious?

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Roasted Salmon with Lemon, Onion, and Capers

Salmon slow roasted with lemon, onion, caper, dill business on top. It’s hard to make salmon more delicious.

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Smoked Kielbasa, Cauliflower, Onions

Smokey delicious kielbasa, carmelized cauliflower with some zing and zip. Easy weekday win.

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Pork Chili Verde

Comfort often comes at a price. Tons of ingredients. An arduous journey through prep. Long, slow cooks. Many ways to mess up.

Salad

Shaved Brussel Sprouts, Baby Kale and Apple Salad

Delicious salad action for a crisp fall day. Yum maxed.

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Bistek Tagalog

A well proven formula: steak + onions + garlic = yum. Thinly slice the steak, add some cheese, and you have the makings of an awesome cheese steak.

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Steak Fajita

Forget Taco Tuesday. Fajita up your life with chili lime marinated steak and sultry caramelized veggies.

Salad

Frisee aux Lardon aka Breakfast Salad

Breakfast salad. Healthy (it’s salad after all,) delicious (it has bacon after all,) awesomeness.

Mains

Shrimp & Andouille Skewers

Spicy shrimp and sausage awesomeness. Make this as the warm up for your grill party and you’ll be a hero. Serves n – scale as needed.

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Short Rib Coconut Curry

Melty short rib yum covered in spicy awesome sauce. Made in the instant pot, this is not quite beef rendang. Think of it as the cool easy going cousin.

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Jerk Chicken

Grilled Jerk Chicken perfect combo of sweet, spicy, and charred business. The backbone is the allspice, along with everything else Jamaican. The heat is from the habanero.

Sides

Buttermilk Coleslaw

A picnic classic, coleslaw. When done well, it’s sublime, when done poorly it’s watery and gross.

Salad

Smoked Chicken, Zucchini, Pecorino, Almond Salad

Sometimes a simple salad is all it takes to make you remember how awesome food can be. This is that salad.

Sides

Sauteed Mushrooms

A steakhouse standby, sauteed mushrooms. Earthy, tons of umami, a bit of acid to bring it in balance, the perfect side for steak.

Mains

Smoked Strip Steak

Experience Nirvana. Smoked NY Strip Steak. It will blow your mind, put a smile on your face, and make your tummy very happy.

Mains

3-2-1 Baby Backs

Baby back ribs, done the 3-2-1 way. Comes out good, real good, let’s make this every weekend good.

Components

Rib Rub #2

Memphis-esqe rub with a bit of texas on the side, built for baby backs, rubba rub rub.

Mains

Harissa Spiced Leg of Lamb

Sublime leg of lamb, slathered with harissa, cooked 24 hours in the sous vide, broiled for some smokey char, and finished with a bright sauce. Awesomeness.

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Chili Dog Chili

Chili Dogs need chili. Great Chili. Chili that is slow cooked until it is essentially liquid meat.

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Buttermilk Roasted Chicken

Roasted spatchcocked chicken marinade in buttermilk, is like a dream come true. All the soft fall apart chicken goodness you get from buttermilk marinated fried chicken, but without the diet destroying crust.

Sides

Cauliflower Puree

Healthy? Nah. Just amazing deliciousness. Serve with your favorite protein.

Mains

Carnitas

Remember that ice cream bar that asked you, what would you doooo for a … Screw that – i’d do anything for great carnitas.

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Guinness Stew

It’s St Patricks Day!!! Hooray! But you are trying to be low carb. Booo. These things are not compatible. So you are going to have to compromise a bit.

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Scallops, Watercress, Orange

Scallops. Pure yumm. Tender, meaty, buttery, a bit sweet, and a bit salty. They are good all by themselves.

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Bacon wrapped dates

Bacon wrapped dates are a gateway drug to full on tapa addiction. This version, with blue cheese inside will turn you into a junkie in no time. Serves 12: scales well.

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Crab Stuffed Tomatoes

Small tomatoes, stuffed with crab salad. One maximally delicious bite. These are a great party snack.

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Jamon Pinxto

A bite of bliss. Jamon, sun dried tomatoes soaked in sherry, creamy goat cheese.

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Ham Croquettas

No tapas meal would be complete without croquettas!

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Lamb Meatballs

Classic meatballs with a spanish style sofrito sauce. This is a great party dish to make ahead of time and leave on the stove till it’s time to serve.

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Shrimp with Garlic

Gambas al Ajillo, a tapas classic. Eat with caution on a first date. Abandon by the fourth.

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Chicken and Bok Choy

Stir fried goodness. Classic flavors, easy to make, deliciousness maximized.

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Black Pepper Beef and Broccoli

A mashup of beef and broccoli and black pepper beef. Put down the phone, no need to call the chinese place if you have the chops to make this (and you do.

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Beer Brats

Let your inner wisconsinite shine. All hail the mighty beer brat!

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Salmon with Aleppo Pepper Sauce

In this dish, we make a sauce/marinade with aleppo pepper along with lime juice, some herbs, and oil and use it to top salmon. Delicious!

Breakfast

Hash Browns

Glorious, glorious hash browns! Your breakfast needs them.

Mains

Chicken with Corn, Tomato, and Mustard Cream Sauce

Summer time means corn, and tomatoes, and general deliciousness that begs to be maximized with minimal effort. Pair with juicy chicken and you have a winner.

Mains

Steak Un-Taco

Someone doesn’t want carbs. You know that someone. But you want a taco. Or something with steak that has a mexican flair.

Soup

Vichyssoise

A classic cold soup. Potato and leek, what’s not to love? Perfect for lunch on a hot day. You’ll note the use of chicken broth instead of stock.

Mains

Arroz Con Pollo

I’ve been on a bit of a rice dish kick lately. And you can’t have a rice dish kick without arroz con pollo, which might be the ultimate comfort food.

Mains

Chicken and Chorizo Paella

Paella. Sausage, Chicken, Rice, Deep Spice. What’s not to love? Yes, you can go overboard and create a complex paella with 18 different things in it. There’s no need. Serves:4-6 Time:1.

Sides

Fregola Sarda with Fava Beans and Asparagus

It’s springtime in southern california, which means fava beans! This side salad is a nice way to serve them as a component in a yummy pasta dish.

Soup

Cream of Tomato Soup

Ok inner child, brace yourself for old fashioned deliciousness. Perfect for dunking your grilled cheese into and easy to make while chasing the real children around the room.

Mains

Steak and Guinness Pie

It was St. Patty’s day and I was craving something Irish. What’s more Irish than Guinness right?

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Chicken w/ Mushrooms and Riesling Cream Sauce

My take on coq au riesling, a great sunday main course for the family.

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Beans, Sausage, Kale Casserole

A casserole play on white bean, sausage, and kale soup. Super yummy!

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Beef and Broccoli

An American Chinese classic, beef and broccoli. It’s easy to make, deeply satisfying, and way better than that mass produced goop you’d get from delivery.

Snacks

Super Bowl Onion Dip

I make this dip once a year, for the super bowl. Incredibly intense and sweet onion flavor, with just the right amount of sour cream. So good, it is life changing.

Dessert

Blackberry Ice Cream

Homemade ice cream! Blackberries! Ladies and Gentlemen we have a winner!

Mains

Red Beans and Rice

Contrary to this dishes title, for me the point of making red beans and rice is the andouille sausage. Smoky, porky, awesome. The beans, the sauce, and the rice are a bonus. Throw on some hot sauce and prepare for culinary bliss.

Mains

Ground Beef and Scarlett Runner Bean Chili

Normally, I don’t go for beans in chili. It makes for less room for the meat. But sometimes in life, you have to compromise, and sometimes, that means putting beans in your chili. That said, it doesn’t mean the chili has to suck. It definitely should not suck. This chili doesn’t.

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Pork Chops with Roasted Poblano Sofrito, Scarlett Runner Beans, and Rice

When cooked right, pork chops are awesome. When overcooked they are gnarly. This makes them perfect for sous vide, which lets you nail perfect every time.

Components

Red Chile Sauce

This versatile sauce is a great foundation for mexican and tex-mex dishes. I use it for as a sauce for meats, in enchiladas, and in not texas chili.

Sandwich

Fish Sandwich

A fish sandwich you will have dreams about. Light, flaky cod enveloped by crispy panko, complimented by tangy coleslaw, on a buttery bun.

Mains

Lobster Thermichowder

Thermichowder – a cross between lobster thermidor and lobster chowder. Whatever you want to call it, it’s super tasty.

Sandwich

Meatball Sub

The tomato sauce, the meat combined with the basil mayo, cheese, the crunch of the arugula, and soft sub bread combine for meatball sub perfection.

Mains

Dungeness Crab Salad with Frisee and Arugula

Sweet and salty crab, dressing that creamy mustardy goodness, juicy cucumber bites, and a bit of bite from the daikon and the lettuces. Overall, this combines to be light, refreshing, and utterly delicious.

Mains

Fritto Misto di Calamari

Calamari fritto misto style! Light airy batter, spicy tomato sauce deliciousness. Move fast, they’ll be gone in a flash!

Components

Classic Meatballs

On top of spaghetti…..

Mains

Potato Latkes

A pancake, made of potatoes. Fried potatoes. F r i e d. Deliciousness maximized.

Mains

Pad See Ew

Pad See Ew is both the Thai dish I like the most and is dead easy to make. Slice up three things, boil some noodles, and fry em up with some sauce. Bang! bliss.

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Yellow Chicken Curry

Chicken Curry + IPA == Happiness

Mains

Pulled Lamb Pita w/ Tzatziki

Free yourself from the tyranny of pulled pork! Seriously. You’ve had pulled pork 1000 times, you never had anything like this: Smokey lamb with deep and mysterious chile flavors from the rub, and salted perfect.

Sandwich

Cuban

A good Cuban is a thing of glory. Spicy mustard, roasted pork, smoky ham, tangy pickle, luscious cheese. What’s not to love? Easily in the top 5 of the sandwich pantheon.

Sandwich

Garlicky Cuban Pork Sliders

More proof that just about anything that is usually wrapped in a tortilla can easily be repurposed to make an insanely great slider. These are a combination of pulled pork cooked with cuban flavors topped with mojo. The spicy mayo and the sweet roll bring it home.

Components

Pressure cooker turkey stock

I used to hate making stock. It required attention all day long and I rarely had the time. Using the pressure cooker to make it is game changing. Done in 3 hours, no skimming or futzing, just couple easy steps to beautiful, clear stock with deep turkey flavor.

Dessert

Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Cream

Holiday pie love == Ethereal pumpkin business crusted by buttery awesomeness and topped with whipped cream.

Sandwich

Thanksgiving sandwich

The best part of thanksgiving. Good till Sunday.

Snacks

Cocktail Sauce for Shrimp

Shrimp. Adulterated ketchup. Bliss.

Sides

Brussels Sprouts with Carrots

A simple side that goes with just about every protein under the sun. It’s even good for you!

Mains

Ahi Tuna Poke Bowl

Poke is all the rage these days. Bowls reign supreme. And deservedly so. Tuna + soy + sesame = bliss.

Mains

Salmon with Horseradish and Dill

Add a little sauce to your weeknight salmon, boss. With a little heat. You could even pretend it’s winter in Stockholm.

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Tilapia with Peppers and Olives

This dish is light and easy to make, but it does come with some flavor from the peppers, olives, and the vinaigrette. You can make this to atone for the 17 night run you just went on alternating between fried chicken and steak.

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Farfalle with pancetta and corn

I dig pasta with cream sauce. This one has some late summer veggies, and a nice dose of pork product to make it interesting. This is another easy weeknight dish.

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Harrisa Chicken with Potatoes, Carrots, and Onion

Easy weeknight chicken with some flair!

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Shrimp with fregola sarda, corn, and pesto

I’ve been hearing that fregola sarda is all the rage these days. Then i saw it at my local grocery store. So i made this. Rockin’.

Mains

Onions with Sausage and Peppers

All this time, you’ve been fooled. Sausage and Peppers is not about the sausage or the peppers. It’s about the onions. Deeply caramelized, maybe slightly charred, sweet – eye closing deliciousness.

Dessert

Strawberry Fig Ice Cream

trawberries and Figs. Awesome together. Vanilla Ice Cream. Rockin’ when done well. Combine for dessert deliciousness.

Sandwich

Lobster Rolls

Lobsta! Lobsta! Lobsta! Lobster rolls are as easy as it gets. The only intimidating part is getting the meat out of tail, and its not that intimidating.

Mains

Pork Tenderloin w/ Mustard Sauce

An easy dinner with a nice pan sauce. Doing this sous vide makes it almost impossible to overcook the pork. It will be nice and juicy, but also a little pink.

Breakfast

Pancakes

These will make your weekend. The secret? Patience, that and fresh baking soda/powder. Have all three and you will be rewarded with fluffy deliciousness.

Sides

Guacamole

Guacamole is a concert of fat (avocado), acid (lime), and salt (kosher). Get those three things in balance, and you have perfection. Don’t and gloppy green goop. Overall, keep it simple.

Mains

Pulled Pork

It’s going to be a beautiful saturday, there is excess beer in the fridge, friends are coming over. Time to plot smoking a large hunk of meat for dinner.

Components

Roast Pork Belly

Little squares of awesome. All porky goodness without the smokiness of bacon. Add in the nice caramelized crust from the sugar and it’s bliss time.

Salad

The Family Salad

The perfect house salad. Tangy creamy dressing, crisp lettuce, mix of veggies, crunchy croutons. What more could you ask for from a humble salad?

Mains

Lamb Chops with Olives, Capers, and Onions

I love lamb chops, they are delicious on their own but a little something extra is nice too. This something extra is pretty intense. Think chicken piccata but with lamb and olives. Piquant from the lemon and capers, sultry from the olive, and sweet from the onion.

Sides

Oven Roasted Asparagus

A fun way to serve asparagus that looks fancy, but is actually not.

Sides

Roasted Carrots with Spring Onions

Rabbits get it right, carrots are awesome. You’ll understand when you make this. It’s a dead simple side dish that is good enough to make you forget your main course.

Sides

Roasted Cauliflower

Cauliflower? On it’s own? Oh yeah!

Mains

Jambalaya

Mind blowing awesomeness.

Mains

Orecchiette, sausage, and brussel sprouts

Something different from the tyranny of broccoli rabe in the traditional version of this dish.

Salad

Potato, Asparagus, and Red Pepper Salad

Regular old potato salad got you feeling down? Don’t despair! Try this for your next summer bbq. Lemony zip! Crunchy peppers! Funky Asparagus! A good old fashioned potatoey goodness.

Sandwich

The K-Rib

So you smoked two racks of ribs you smoked when you know the family can barely finish one? You’re in luck. Now you can make the k-rib.

Mains

Chicken and Chickpea Tagine

WIP – chicken and chickpeas are a classic tagine combination. Now to get it right.

Sandwich

B.L.A.T

Bacon, lettuce, avocado, tomato. Lunch perfection. Just remember to put it on wheat bread so it’s “healthy”.

Mains

Fish Curry

WARNING WIP. Fish Curry has a place in your repertoire , particularly when pesky pescatarians come to visit. What to eat? Problem solved.

Mains

Detroit Style Pizza

Detroit pizza is great pizza. It deserves a higher place in the pizza pantheon. Thick crust with some crunch, cheese everywhere, and toppings galore. It’s good end to end, every bite as delicious as the next.

Sides

Pan Roasted Broccoli and Radishes

Time to unboring your broccoli. Inspired by that random stuff that needed to be used in the crisper: radishes from some salad, broccoli from some vague thought of eating healthy. So what to do? combine them into a side! Result? Success!

Mains

Baked Beans

A classic bbq side, it’s easy, just make sure you give it plenty of time. It can take a while. That said, if you are smoking something while you make this, time is on your side.

Mains

Brisket

Ok campers, get ready to get up at 4am to make a 7pm dinner. But what a dinner! Holy amazeballs, home made brisket is good.

Mains

Coleslaw

Hello BBQ, meet the perfect side.

Mains

Sloppy Joes

Am I a little kid? No, but I have two, so that means I can eat like one. Lucky me!

Mains

Pasta with peas, asparagus, pancetta

Pasta, creamy sauce, bacony flavor bombs, sneaky healthy green stuff. This is a great week night pasta. Proof? My two year old eats it with reckless abandon and then cries more! more! more!

Mains

Spare Ribs

FryFry’s Ribs! . Done on the Big Green Egg.

Components

BBQ Sauce

Using the bottled stuff is a sin. You can whip this up in two shakes of a lambs tail, and its worth every second.

Components

Rib Rub #1

Time to rub some ribs! Sorta texas style!

Mains

Southwestern Flank Steak Salad #2

A variation of the other southwestern flank steak salad. It has a different dressing and adds some croutons.

Mains

Lamb chops with Red Peppers, Onion, Feta

Time to get your Mediterranean diet going. What better way than Lamb Chops? I do this sous vide but you don’t need to.

Mains

Salmon with Pea Puree and Tomato

A worth quick meal for a weeknight, if you are feeling like you need to eat healthy. This is scaled for 2, double as needed.

Sides

Butternut Squash, Mushrooms, and Farro

WARNING WIP A nice side dish for something wintery, like roast pork

Mains

Fried Rice

Perfect for lunch with leftovers and not much else in the fridge, fried rice is a very fungible thing. All you really need is rice and an egg.

Components

Quick Pickles

A nice little something to go with fried stuff

Mains

Butternut Squash Risotto

Sometimes, you find perfection. Serious Eat’s Pressure Cooker Butternut Squash Risotto is everything you hope it could be. Rewritten so i can cook it easily again below.

Sandwich

Pulled Pork, Gochujang Edition

There is a reason that gochujang is all the range. It’s freaking delicious. What better way to have deliciousness than on pulled pork.

Mains

Halftime Sliders

It’s halftime. The music sucks. You need hot food for the second half. Time to make the sliders! But, you have to be prepared and move fast.

Sides

Not so Dirty Rice

To really make dirty rice, add chicken livers.

Salad

Salad Southwest

A southwestern take on salad lyonnaise, sort of. The dressing is cold, the lettuce is not frisee, but it has egg and bacon!

Sauces

Dahlia Avenue Style Bologense

Slightly more complex than the brooklyn style meat sauce. This one takes more effort, and thus has more reward.

Components

Garlic Butter

Garlic Butter. Primarily for Garlic Bread, but you can do other things (steaks.

Mains

Midwestern Lasagna

I’m sure no self respecting Italian would eat this, nor anyone concerned with nutrition. Their loss.

Components

Ricotta Cheese

Simple, easy. Try it on toast with some honey. Or with prosciutto, figs, and evoo.

Breakfast

Shrimp and Grits

A classic at any time, but most perfect before football sunday.

Breakfast

Huevos Rancheros

Spicy Breakfast!

Mains

Red Chile Chicken Enchiladas

A slightly fancy version of the ‘red’ enchiladas down at your local mexican slop shop. Make these and you won’t be going back there any time soon (or until you feel lazy.

Mains

Turkey Chili

This is the turkey variation of chili. And it has beans in it, double sin! This is halved from the original chili.

Snacks

Sopes

Sopes are a great snack! This is a shell which can hold lots of stuff. Carnitas, goat cheese and arugula, chicken and tomatillo salsa….

Snacks

Bourdain’s Bitch’s Nuts

Bourdain was right, these nuts are addictive. With a little tweaking they’ll be nuts!

Mains

Braised Lamb Shanks with Cannellini Beans

And now for something completely different. Well sort of, this is like a tomato/lamb version of hoppin john, with different beans and no rice. Ok maybe’s its completely different.

Sides

Roasted Carrots ala Gjelna

Had this the other day at Gjelna. It was great. The cookbook version, with a couple tweaks, is pretty great too.

Mains

Black Beans, Chorizo, and Rice

Why just have black beans, when you can put chorizo in it too?

Mains

Roast Chicken – Cuban Style

Roast chicken, one of life’s great pleasures. Cuban food, soon to take over the world. Combine. I did this one spatchcock style, so I could use a marinade.

Mains

Mushroom Swiss Burger

One bite and the rest of the world ceases to exist. You are one with the salty fatty mushroomy cheesy beefy awesomeness of the mushroom swiss burger.

Breakfast

Breakfast Potatoes

Breakfast crack.

Sauces

Brooklyn Style Meat Sauce

I used to live in Brooklyn yo. Delivery was a way of life, and the best was pasta with meat sauce.

Salad

Farro w/ Mushrooms

Farro is delicious.

Breakfast

Leek and Goat Cheese Quiche

I can confirm that real men do indeed eat quiche.

Mains

Fish Tacos

Welcome to so-cal living.

Sides

Mexican Rice

Sometimes beans and rice can be nice

Sides

Creamed Spinach

If your going to have steak, you need a side

Mains

Kung Pao Chicken

For whatever reason, there is no delivery Chinese where I live. So time to take matters into my own hands.

Soup

Tortilla Soup w/ Chicken (or not)

Love me some tortilla soup. Add chicken and you have dinner.

Mains

Chicken ‘schnitzel’

Fried goodness. And it’s healthy! It is chicken after all.

Mains

Butternut Squash Potpie

When vegetarians strike – feed them.

Mains

Chicken and Mushroom Quesadillas

Americanized Mexican at it’s finest.

Salad

Avocado Dressing

A quasi-southwestern dressing. Good for a simple salad (think romaine, pepitas, tomato). And to dip stuff in.

Sides

Brussel Sprouts ala dell’anima

Once upon a time, I hated brussels sprouts. Then i tried these. I never went back.

Soup

Butternut Squash Soup

Another classic

Snacks

Cheese Straws

A great snack, easy to make and super tasty.

Mains

Chicken Shawarma

Just as tasty as street meat, with less bacteria!

Mains

Chili Lime Steak Tacos

Cheater marinade – delicious tacos. I like my tacos to be bundles of delicious meats with little distraction. You may feel differently and if you do, then add more stuff.

Soup

Corn Soup with Hatch Chili Sofrito

Corn soup is a great late summer early fall lunch. This one is spiced up with a little hatch chili.

Sides

Creamed Onions

Old fashioned onion goodness. Strangely delicious. Your holiday table will thank you.

Sides

Green Beans with Melted Shallots

A play on green bean almondine. Slowly cooking the shallots in the butter makes a great tasting sauce for the green beans with the acid from the lemon juice cutting the fat. Almonds provide the traditional crunch. Great side for a hunk of meat.

Sauces

Hatch Chili Sauce

Hatch chilis come around once a year in the fall with great fanfare. They certainly are yummy and a good excuse to cook southwestern-esque stuff. A great first stop is making some sauce and topping your some grilled meat with it.

Salad

Heirloom Tomato, Burrata, Prosciutto

It’s late summer, tomatoes are in all their glory. I could eat this every day, it’s simply summer on a plate. Serves 2-4, Time 15 minutes.

Mains

Hoppin John

Happy New Year! Have some deliciousness.

Sauces

Make ahead gravy

This is a cheat. It works out well and saves post bird exiting the oven stress.

Sides

Mashed Potatoes

When in doubt.

Salad

Micro Kale & Apple Salad

This is a nice fall salad. I like it as a side for real food (aka meat.

Mains

Panko-Herb Crusted Salmon

This is a nice dish. Classy even. And who doesn’t like panko? (my spell checker that’s who.

Sauces

Parsley Caper Sauce for Fish

Simple sauce makes your fish delicious. Use this with any white (seabass) or pink (salmon) fish. It would probably suck with tuna.

Soup

Parsnip Carrot Soup

Fall, soup.

Snacks

Pimento Cheese

Pimento Cheese is awesome. Eat it on crackers, make a grilled cheese with it, make a cheese steak with it, use it as a body rub.

Mains

Pork Tenderloin with Potatoes, Mushrooms, and Onions

A nice dish for a group of people to share from a platter. Definitely a winter dish.

Soup

Potato Leek Soup

Cold soup is perfect for a hot day.

Salad

Potato Salad

Potato salad gets such a bad rap. It shouldn’t, when done well, you can’t stop eating it. This is one of those potato salads. Prepare to get fat.

Salad

Ranch Dressing

Good for salads, chicken wings, and dipping your pizza crust into.

Sides

Sage and Sausage Dressing

Alton Brown scared me away from stuffing. So now i make dressing. This one is derived from J. Kenji Lopez-Alt of Serious Eats; long name, food god.

Sauces

Simple tomato sauce

Easy. Great for Spazghetti.

Mains

Skirt Steak with Garlic Basil Business

Steak sometimes needs business, sometimes it doesn’t. But if you need to get rid of some basil, this is great business.

Salad

Sorta Southern Ranch Dressing

A different take on ranch. Not sure why I associate this with southern, but there it is.

Salad

Southwestern Flank Steak Salad

Look ma! I’m eating salad!

Mains

Spicy Ginger Pork Noodles

Words don’t do it justice. Make this.

Mains

Steak Diane

Sometimes a steak needs a sauce.

Mains

Thai-ish Green Curry Chicken

Mmmmm…curry. Love this stuff. Is it traditional? I don’t know, who cares.

Salad

Thai Steak Salad

It’s gonna be cold, colD, coLD, cOLD, COLD!

Sauces

White sauce, or sort of, Tzatziki

White sauce is yum sauce.

Sides

Wild Rice with Mushrooms

A simple side for lazy times

Mains

Chili

Chili is love. You better love your kitchen when you embark on this. When it’s done, everyone who tries it will love you.

Mains

Chorizo and Shrimp Stuffed Poblano

Poblanos might be my favorite chile. Mysterious yet fruity with a quick hit of heat that doesn’t last too long or get too intense.

Sandwich

Tuna Salad

Who doesn’t like tuna salad sammy’s? Communists that’s who.

Mains

Seabass with Poblano Crema

Kick some ass seabass!

Mains

Pasta ala Random

Butter. Pasta. Fuck yeah.