I never met a dog that didn’t love peanut butter, this biscuit recipe is organic, healthy, tasty and a sure hit with your pet pooch. We recently made dog biscuits for some of our friends and relatives dogs and right away we started getting calls from those dog’s owners as their biscuit stash ran dry. Everybody wanted the same thing, more dog treats or the recipe. Me, I’ve only had one dog in my life, a chow. I was small,…
Category: One Pot Cooking for Men
One Pot Cooking for Men, not your mom’s cooking blog. More like a deranged, heat-loving, fire-farting, crazy-uncle-you-never-knew-you-had-in-the-first-place kind of blog.
Savory Quinoa Muffins
Savory quinoa muffins make for a great protein packed meal anytime of the day, they’re savory, toothy and have some weight to them. Quinoa breakfast muffins. Early morning breakfasts at the Red Dog Coffee and Café in our hometown have become a comfortable happenstance on those mornings when we’re just not up to doing it ourselves. We call these days, walking breakfasts and, living in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains we’re afforded a lot of outdoor time and we spend…
Savory 5-Layer Vegetarian Mexican Torte
This savory 5-layer vegetarian Mexican torte is spicy, full of flavor, serves 8 and makes a great meal. Serve with fire roasted salsa, guacamole and cold beer.
Chicken and Apple Breakfast Sausage
Chicken and apple breakfast sausage, destined to be a favorite, with ground chicken breast, apples, fennel, onions, thyme and smoky paprika. Chicken and Apple Breakfast Sausage When we lived in California we frequented a small cafe next to Gelson’s, our local market, off Topanga and Mulholland, for breakfast on Sunday mornings. Though that cafe is no longer there, the memory of their breakfast remains. There was the usual fair of toast, eggs and potatoes but they served these huge homemade…
Cornbread Squash Dressing
The origin of this recipe is unknown to me. It’s a holiday staple in every southern mother’s kitchen. Of course every mother’s recipe is a little different and in our experience, they’re all pretty darn good. Our version is no exception and something we enjoy not only during the holidays, but all summer long until yellow squash are no longer in season. The original recipe we first encountered was from my wife Stella’s (so not her real name) mom who…
Irresistible Snack Trash Party Mix
Savory snack trash party mix first appeared in a 1952 edition of Life Magazine, we’ve spiced our version up with fiery Chipotle Tabasco Sauce! Irresistible Snack Trash Party Mix ges and ages before I was born, decades really, the recipe for Chex™ Party Mix appeared for the very first time in a 1952 edition of Life Magazine. Snack lore holds that the wife of a Ralston executive (pre-General Mills) thought of stirring together Wheat Chex and Corn Chex along with melted…
Caldo de Pollo con Lime or Mexican Chicken Soup
Caldo de Pollo con Lime is a sunny recipe of roast chicken, poblano, onion and tomatoes spiced with cumin, oregano and chicken broth. Caldo de Pollo con Lime Caldo de Pollo con Lime* or Mexican Chicken Soup can be a revelation. A heart warming recipe of simple ingredients, roast chicken, poblano, zucchini, onion and tomatoes spiced with cumin, thyme and oregano slowly simmering in a homemade chicken broth. As a man I’m lazy by nature. I can go the market,…
Authentic Green Chili Stew with Roast Pork
Authentic Green Chili Stew with Roast Pork, as close to a Heavenly deity as you can get without meeting a Heavenly deity. Savory, spice, perfect comfort food. I did not know this when I moved to the Rocky Mountains but now that I’ve experienced the green chili in all it’s glory, I too feel a need to worship at the alter of the green chili. As it happens, I have this friend, we’ll call him Martin because, well, that’s his…
Decadent Blueberry Muffin Tops
Decadent Blueberry Muffin Tops, enjoy them often. Our recipe is easy to make, low in sugar, heavy on fruit and bakes up wonderfully thin with crispy edged tops. We like blueberry muffins, we enjoy them often. This recipe is delicious and easy to make, low in sugar, heavy on fruit and bakes up wonderfully thin with crispy edged tops. I suppose that makes us muffin snobs. So be it, we’ve both been called so much worse. I suppose we’d feel…
Panzanella Salad
Panzanella salad signals summer tomatoes for the classic bread and tomato salad with fresh basil, Burrata chesse and crusty bread. It’s Panzanella salad time and without a doubt tomatoes are the leading reason folks get up off the couch in America and out into the garden. After you’ve tasted a store bought tomato and then compared it to a home grown tomato, you will become an avid gardener and you will do so because home grown tomatoes taste so much…