Pot Roast Chicken with potatoes, carrots, onions, garlic and rosemary, it’s juicy, flavorful, darn easy to make and a sure fire hit anytime! As it turns out, I had a chicken. I also had potatoes, carrots, onions and garlic. Got a rosemary bush in the herb garden and house guests arriving for dinner. Guess where this is going? And yes, I could have dressed up this recipe and called it rôti de poulet but honestly it’s chicken roasted in a pot…
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, Kale and Parmesan Quiche
This savory quinoa, kale and parmesan quiche with a brown rice crust is wonderfully savory and satisfying breakfast or light dinner with a side salad. Yumm! I confess that I prefer savory vegetarian meals to virtually all others and today’s recipe of a savory quinoa, kale and parmesan quiche with a brown rice crust reflects the savory I crave without the meat. Unless we’re talking about a meat centric dish, i.e., barbeque, most meat based protein (bacon excepted) serves mostly…
Decadent Cast Iron Skillet Brownie
Our Keto friendly cast iron brownie is low salt, contains no flour or sugar, is wonderfully way to put a hot brownie on the table super quick The irony of preferring to eat vegetarian and also enjoying so many keto recipes is not lost on either Stella, my wife (so not her real name) or myself. We roughly follow a DASH diet plan avoiding salt, sugar, flour, rice, potatoes and most anything with a high carb or sodium count. The…
Dutch Baby
The Dutch Baby, like popovers, are pure comfort food. Perfect for breakfast, lunch or dinner, they served up sweet or savory in seconds. My wife Stella, so not her real name, announced one evening, “We’re going to have a Dutch Baby.” Wait, what?!? “Oh, don’t panic, you’ll see what I mean in the morning.” That was my introduction to what I call the “skillet popover.” They’re wonderfully eggy and can be topped to perfection with just about anything and don’t take nine-months…
Green Chili Chicken Enchiladas
Green Chili Chicken Enchiladas are savory, quick and easy and mildly spiced with the authentic taste of southwest green chili, mmm! Historically speaking I love comfort food and today I’m talking green chili chicken enchiladas. Now, I’m not a particularly mature human being, nor am I all that interested in being one. I like to mind my own business and am generally unaware of surrounding events. I clean up my own yard and have tried all my life to fly…
Fire Roasted Salsa
Our fire roasted salsa recipe made with fire-roasted tomatoes, onions, lime juice, garlic, cumin, cilantro, red pepper, oregano and green chili! 100% Norteño! The evolution of our homemade fire roasted salsa is best described by Joni Mitchell when she sings, “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” I figure Joni was reaching a little deeper than salsa with that line but that’s kind of how it was. We grew up eating Tex-Mex and all the varieties of hot…
Tortilla de Patatas – Spanish Potato Frittata
Spanish Potato Frittata is wildly popular in Spain and eaten for breakfast or wrapped in warm buttered bread for an afternoon sandwich. The Spanish tortilla – frittata, is a meal of pure comfort food. Wildly popular in Spain, it is amazingly versatile, eaten for breakfast or wrapped in warm buttered bread for an afternoon sandwich. It may also be served as tapas (small bites) as we recently did for a dinner party. The iconic Spanish tortilla apparently arrived on the…
Orzo with Chicken and Sun Dried Tomatoes
Orzo with Chicken and Sun Dried Tomatoes This orzo- chicken and sun dried tomatoes recipe is the perfect light meal for a warm summer night, outdoor concert, potluck or picnic. This is my father-in-law’s recipe for orzo with chicken and sun dried tomatoes. It is the perfect light meal for a warm summer night, outdoor concert, potluck or picnic. It tastes good warm, it tastes good cold and is frankly the best room temp pasta dish I’ve ever eaten. I…
Roasted Tomatoes with Herbs and Cheese
Roasted Tomatoes with Herbs and Cheese Roasted tomatoes with herbs and cheese, summer’s best recipe of the season starring caramelized tomatoes, roasted garlic, fresh cut herbs and Parmesan cheese. Today’s recipe is Roasted Tomatoes with Herbs and Cheese, on of our very favorite eats and the first time you prepare this mouthful of happiness, you’ve got to be patient because it takes a couple of hours in a low and slow oven for the sugars in the tomatoes to caramelize…
Classic Baked Spaghetti
Classic Baked Spaghetti is reborn with fresh zucchini noodles and veggie crumbles in a savory tomato sauce served up with lots of fresh grated Parmesan cheese. Classic Baked Spaghetti is reborn with fresh zucchini noodles and veggie crumbles in a savory tomato sauce is served up with lots of fresh grated Parmesan cheese remains one of my wife’s favorites, it’s hardy and satisfying. Four star comfort food, sit down, shut up and tuck in. We use spiral cut zucchini for…