Mouth-Watering Pasta Ortolano with sauté onions, mushrooms, garlic, asparagus, and fresh Roma tomatoes served over brown rice pasta! And one of our favorite places to indulge in pasta ortolano is Mandola’s Italian Market in Austin, Texas. We’ve enjoyed many delicious meals there with our good friends Susan and Joe (miss you guys). The other day my wife was longing for her favorite Mandola’s dish “Spaghettini Ortolano” so she decided to make her own version. And it was delicious. There’s a…
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.
Australian Style Yogurt
Let’s talk Australian style yogurt. A thick creamy fix whenever you need it, our favorite Blackberry Serrano and Pineapple Jalapeno! Let’s talk Australian style yogurt it’s a thick creamy fix whenever you need it, our favorite Blackberry Serrano and Pineapple Jalapeno! Historically, speaking, yogurt is an ingredient to me, not a featured item. I had no clue the extent to which the US yogurt market had been infiltrated by Icelandic, Australian, Greek, French and Japanese yogurt brands. I gotta get…
Rouladen
Rouladen is a traditional German dish of tender steak rolled with mustard, bacon, and pickles, skillet browned, braised to perfection and served with pan gravy. Rouladen is a traditional German dish of tender steak rolled with mustard, bacon, and pickles, skillet browned, braised to perfection and served with pan gravy. Rouladen, is a traditional German dish of tender steak rolled with mustard, bacon, and pickles, skillet browned, braised to perfection and served with pan gravy. This wonderfully savory meal instantly…
Southern Salmon Croquettes
Southern Salmon Croquettes. Your family will love this southern classic of salmon, shallots, pepper and seasoning, very versatile and tasty. “Who doesn’t remember eating salmon patties growing up and maybe feeding them to the dog instead? Well, these are not your grandmother’s salmon patties. They are an easy and delicious way to get more healthy fish into your diet.” ‘Nuff said. Southern Salmon Croquettes | Prep Time: 30:00 minutes | Cook Time: 8:00 minutes Tools You’ll NeedLarge cast iron or…
Homemade Chicken Broth
Homemade chicken broth, a mineral-rich infusion made by boiling bones with veggies, herbs and spices. It’s inexpensive and good food for you! Making your own chicken stock is shockingly easy and tastes a lot better than canned and, if you’re trying to control salt, homemade broth is hands down the way to go. Also, if you are able to use all organic ingredients, you’ll have an even healthier broth. Homemade Chicken BrothServings: Eight cupsPrep Time: About 10 minutesCooking Time: 90…
Awesome Chocolate Chip Carrot and Banana Muffins with Pecans
Our awesome chocolate chip carrot and banana muffin recipe with pecans is wonderfully decadent and stuffed with chocolate chips and cinnamon! What I do care for are things that bring me pleasure, my wife, the taste of sweet clean rainwater, good friends, good red wine, bacon, a gezellig evening, someone intelligent, acoustic guitars played well and warm sweet muffins. In particular, Chocolate Chip Carrot and Banana Muffins with Pecans and, I know, it’s a bit of a mouthful, no…
Sublime Langostino Étouffée
This sublime langostino étouffée is made with lobster, creamy rich butter, cumin, spiced tomatoes and garlic. Satisfying, savory and sexy! This sublime langostino étouffée is made with lobster, creamy rich butter, cumin, spiced tomatoes and garlic. Satisfying, savory and sexy! Our sublime langostino etouffée is one of my favs and any good road dog can tell you the best places to grab a meal when you’re marking a lot of time on the highways of this continent. We’re talking everything…
Mouth Watering Chicken Tortilla Soup
Chicken tortilla soup with fire roasted bell pepper, onions, tomatoes, cumin, oregano and thyme is slow simmered and topped with cheese. This mouth watering chicken tortilla soup is very creamy (no, there’s no cream in this soup) version of chicken tortilla soup comes from somewhere deep inside my wife Stella’s (so not her real name) memory. A taste so fleeting, yet so comfortably familiar that it did, decades ago, burrow into the taste buds of her memory during a studio…
Roasted Spaghetti Squash
Roasted spaghetti squash of golden pasta like veggie strings, perfectly sautéed with olive oil, garlic, thyme and sprinkled Parmesan cheese. Roasted Spaghetti SquashRoasted spaghetti squash is the best kept secret in the kitchen, golden pasta like veggie strings make for a perfect sauté with olive oil, garlic, thyme and Parmesan cheese. Easy and tastes amazing! Harvested in the early fall (but generally available year round in the grocery store) spaghetti squash will keep for months in your root cellar, if…
Shrimp and Pasta and Fresh Grated Parmesan
Combine shrimp, pasta with fresh grated Parmesan, shallots, olive oil, fresh grated chives and voilà, a quick satisfying meal in just minutes. This recipe for Pasta and Shrimp is the left-over result from a small dinner party. We bought a pound of Costco’s cooked shrimp seasoned with fresh cilantro and limes as an appetizer, they were well received and enjoyed by our guests. Couple of days later we were fridge grazing. Out come the leftover shrimp, in went our hungry…