Everyone Wants an Easy Veggie Side We’ve got you covered! Three ingredients, no chopping, delicious flavor. You could even serve this on Thanksgiving if you need a vegetable side that doesn’t contain the Turkey Day trifecta of butter, cheese and a crispy topping. I prefer this with thin haricot vert, but it’s delicious with regular…
Archives for October 2023
Weekly Meal Plan // October 30-November 3
Hey guys! I’m headed to Ft. Worth with my son for a TCU tour and currently in the car working off my hot spot. When we left Houston is was about 90 degrees and it’s 45 in Ft. Worth. We’re driving into a cold front and rain, man Texas weather is weird. A couple of…
Weekly Meal Plan // October 23-27
MONDAY I’ll make a fresh batch of Super Simple Salad Dressing to use this week and cut carrot and celery sticks for easy noshing. For dinner, it’s the Blackened Redfish Tacos from my cookbook. These Blackened Salmon Tacos are a similar recipe from my blog. I’ll have my fish over shaved cabbage with all the…
Weekly Meal Plan // October
SUNDAY I can’t lie, we ordered pizza and made a simple arugula salad with SSSD. It was a busy weekend. I cooked steaks, Greek lemon potatoes and salad on Friday night and gumbo on Saturday night, so I was ready for a night off. MONDAY My son requested tomato-feta pasta. I’ll make this and toss…
Weekly Meal Plan // October 8-13
Hi guys. We’re at our farm near Round Top for the weekend and I’m feeding a gaggle of teenage boys. I need to make this fast (as always). SUNDAY Make a batch of Marcella Hazan’s tomato sauce and toss it with rigatoni or ziti. Here’s how I made a batch yesterday, you can see photos…
Banana Snacking Cake
A Favorite Banana “Bread” One of my favorite recipes from my cookbook is a buttermilk-banana quick bread I call Banana Snacking Cake. A quick bread is any bread recipe made without yeast. Typically, that’s recipes like banana bread or pumpkin bread made in a loaf pan. Snack cakes are usually lightly sweetened cakes without frosting….