Pan Seared Chicken with Creamy Polenta and Bacon
I love one pot dishes. Anything I can do to save washing up dishes after dinner is always welcome. Aside from making the washing up easier, building the dish in one pan gives you a unique opportunity to develop some pretty robust flavors. You never lose any fond, the caramelized bits that get stuck to the bottom of the pan, so all that flavor makes its way into the polenta. This dish starts with some automatic flavor in the...
Cheddar Bacon Muffins
Go check out TasteStopping to see my guest post about inspiration and comfort zones. I was their very first guest blogger, and I am so excited to share this with you!! Go, now. The muffins will be here when you return! I love breakfast. After dessert, it is my favorite meal of the day. (And, yes, I consider dessert a meal, and not an add-on to dinner.) Where else can you combine sweet and savory so neatly? One of my favorite...
Honey Lime Grilled Chicken Salad
I am ready for Spring. Seriously ready. I am ready for warm weather, rain showers, and packing up the winter clothes. With that in mind, I decided to treat myself to an early taste of Spring a few nights ago. It was cold outside and I was feeling a little blue, but this salad perked me right up! Just looking at it, with its cool greens and bright yellows, made me feel that I could hold out a few more weeks. What I like best...
Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Scones
I might have been thinking of cookies when I made these scones. I was craving chocolate chip cookies the other day when a picture of some cream scones caught my eye. Why couldn’t I take the best flavors of a chocolate chip cookie and combine them with some scones? So, I did just that! I used brown sugar in the dough and added a full cup of chocolate chips. I also added a teaspoon of vanilla. The results are spectacular! These...
Orange Almond Chocolate Cookies
This cookie is not what I set out to make. This was supposed to be a simple almond cookie. I was craving almond cookies last week and decided to come up with a recipe that incorporated ground almonds into the cookie for some texture. Things went astray when I saw a lonely orange sitting on my counter. It only went further off track when I remembered I had a bag of chocolate disks from New York in my pantry. These cookies are...
Sweet and Sour Chicken
Sometimes it is all about the sauce. The best part of this meal is really the sauce. It is the right combination of tangy and sweet, unlike the neon red sauces served by most Chinese carry-out places. Not to say my mixture of chicken and vegetables in this dish are not fantastic, because they are, but it is the sauce that makes this dish such a superstar. Aside from being really good, it is really easy and fairly quick to put...
