Cranberry Relish
When I get a house I’m going to have 10 bags of sugar.
Versatile recipes inspire creativity in the kitchen and release us from the same-old dinners week after week; here’s a relish that can be eaten plain with chips, made into cream cheese party dip, used as topping for chicken…or whatever else you can come up with!
Sweet Potato Pancakes
Bolognese Pasta
Bolognese – ‘of or pertaining to Bologna, Italy’ and ‘Italian Cookery – served with a cream sauce typically containing…ground beef, and cheese.’
Fantastic. So fantastic it’s worth using my last drops of wine that came straight from Italy.
“Larmandone 2007″ – “Obtained from Merlot black grapes that are harvested and selected only by hand. It has a ruby red colour verging on pomegranate red; intense scents where woody essences prevail over fruits. Its taste is warm, intense, generous… balanced also by its alcohol content. It is a meditative wine…”
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Cheddar-Jalapeno Cornbread
What’s your style?
Growing up, I was all about the boxed Jiffy cornbread. I’m pretty sure I asked my mom to make it at once a week for the better half of a year. I’m no stranger to getting stuck on eating one thing until the day I find another food to replace it with.
Other than Jiff, I’ve only had two experiences with cornbread worth mentioning…
- Chicago, Illinois at The House of Blues – they had a fabulously-unique rosemary cornbread smothered in ‘Voodoo Shrimp’ that I couldn’t get enough of.
- Naperville, Illinois at Heaven on Seven – I ordered etouffee and the cornbread underneath stole the spotlight. Suprizing to me, the restaurant sold a cookbook containing some their recipes – so now we both can enjoy a little (or big) piece of ‘Heaven’
Apricot Beef Stirfry
Reminiscent of an Asian stirfry – spicy, dark, and just barley sweet.
This is the ever-adapting recipe. It can be drastically altered to accommodate seasonal ingredients, dietary needs, taste preferences, or the ability to use what ever happens to be in your refrigerator that night.
SO, it’s more of a ‘guideline’, really.
