Posted in Cooking, Florida, Food, Italian, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Pizza, Recipes, USA, United States, tagged Food, Italian, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Pizza, Recipes, Uncategorized, United States on April 11, 2008 | No Comments »
This pizza – from the bottom up was: olive oil, marinara sauce, provolone cheese, carmelized sweet onions, sauted baby portobello mushrooms, sweet Italian sausage. I
1 dough (from supermarket bakery – ask them for one of their Italian or French bread dough – tell them you are going to use it for [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Food, tagged Baking, Blogging, Cheese, Cooking, Eggplant, Family, Florida, Food, Italian, Lunch, macaroni, Pasta, Photography, Photos, Recipes, Sicilian, Uncategorized, Vegetables on March 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Note: My Eggplant Parmesan is NOT a vegetarian meal. It is a wonderful blend of Italian meatballs, sausage, cheese, eggplant, and home made sauce.
4 Medium/Large Firm Eggplant
4 Eggs – beaten with a little water
3 cups Italian seasoned bread crumb
Kosher Salt
1 cup Olive Oil
1 cup Vegetable Oil
Left-over meatballs (4), left over Italian sausage [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Food, tagged Blogging, Canada, Easter, Florida, Food, Kielbasa, Maine, Massachusetts, Polish, Pork, Recipes, Uncategorized on March 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We bought a 5 pound package of Bobak kielbasa from Polonia in Casselberry, FL and I just loved it. We had company for dinner and I made Stuffed Cabbage, pierogi, and Bobak kielbasa simmered in beer. Everyone just raved about it. I’m so glad that I bought the large package [...]
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Posted in Food, tagged Beef, Blogging, Cooking, Family, Florida, Food, Life, Lunch, New York, Polish, Pork, Recipes, Uncategorized, Vegetables on March 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Stuffed Cabbage and Perogies
You will need to set aside some time to make this recipe. I usually start in the morning so that this can be for supper. Other times I’ve started this at night, and let it cook all night. Yup… the house smell like cabbage but it smells like heaven!!
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Posted in Blogroll, Food, tagged Baking, Cheese, Dijon, Family, Florida, Food, Lunch, macaroni, Mustard, Pasta, Recipes, Uncategorized on March 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I made a terrific macaroni and cheese - this time I just kind of threw it together but I added a little Dijon mustard. I also used two cheeses - Velveeta and Cabot Sharp White Cheddar.
8oz. elbow macaroni
2 cups whole milk
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Food, tagged Baking, Blogging, Cape Cod, Cheese, Cooking, Florida, Food, Life, Lunch, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Pasta, Photography, Photos, Recipes, Uncategorized on February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Chef Joe’s Baked Macaroni and Cheese
Recipe courtesy Chef Joe Randall
Show:
The Best Of
Episode:
Prix Fixe
Kosher salt
2 cups elbow macaroni
2 eggs, beaten
2 cups evaporated milk
1/2 cup butter, melted
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
2-1/2 cups grated sharp cheddar
1 cup bread crumbs
1 teaspoon paprika
1/4 cup grated ParmesanPreheat the oven to 350 degrees F.Bring a large pot of salted water [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Food, tagged Baking, Blogging, Cincinnati, Cooking, Family, Florida, Food, Greek, Italian, Life, Lunch, Pasta, Pies, Pizza, Recipes, Sicilian, Uncategorized, Vegetables on February 9, 2008 | No Comments »
We had company from Cincinnati last night and a big request for pizza. Since we follow the dictate of - no meat of Fridays during Lent, I made three excellent meat-less pizzas.
1. Caramelized Sweet Onion and Baby Bella mushrooms with homemade pizza sauce and provolone cheese - got rave reviews on that one.
2. [...]
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Posted in Food, tagged Baking, Beans, Beef, Blogging, Burgers, Cake, Canada, Cape Cod, Chili, Cincinnati, Cooking, Family, Florida, Food, Hot Dogs, Life, Lunch, Maine, Massachusetts, Meat, Mexican, New York, Pork, Recipes, Seafood, Stuffing, Thanksgiving, Turkey, Uncategorized on February 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We had chili earlier in the week and the leftovers last night. Didn’t have any good crusty bread to have with it, so I worked on this cornbread recipe. I might not be the healthiest of recipes, but if you think of “moderation” then it will taste all the better.
ENJOY
THEEEE Best [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Food, tagged Blogging, Cooking, Florida, Food, Photography, Photos, Recipes, Tea, Uncategorized on January 31, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve been trying to raise as much of my own herbs as I can. Here is some good looking peppermint that will be used mostly for tea.
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Posted in Blogroll, Food, tagged Baking, Blogging, Cake, Cooking, Florida, Food, Photography, Photos, Recipes, Uncategorized on January 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Earlier I wrote about the lemon tree that I got when I moved into my house a couple of years ago. They’re almost ready to pick.
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Posted in Blogroll, Food, tagged Beef, Blogging, Cooking, Family, Florida, Food, Meat, Recipes, Uncategorized, Vegetables on January 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I got two great looking chuck roasts at Costco, so today is going to be pot roast day. I really like the kind of cooking from Tyler Florence -he’s so down to earth and it seems all of his recipes are do-able (ingredients are easy to get - and methods are not difficult - for [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Food, tagged Baking, Blogging, Canada, Cooking, Family, Florida, Food, French Canadian, Maine, Pies, Pork, Recipes, Uncategorized, Veal on January 26, 2008 | No Comments »
This Tourtiere is very popular in Maine. My aunt comes from Rumford, Maine and my uncle was French Canadian - she used to make this for New Years Day. Supposedly it is good luck to have a meat pie on New Years. Well, its still January, so GOOD LUCK TO ALL!!
TOURTIERE
1 lb. ground pork
1/2 lb. [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Food, tagged Cooking, Florida, Food, Italian, Pasta, Recipes, Uncategorized, Vegetables on January 26, 2008 | No Comments »
This recipe for Chicken Vesuvio came from a local restaurant in the Orlando, FL area - Pebbles. As far as I know the restaurant has closed in our area (I think there were 4 or 5 in the Orlando area) and I really liked this dish. It was published in the Orlando Sentinel [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Food, tagged Beans, Chili, Cincinnati, Cooking, Florida, Food, Hot Dogs, Lunch, Pasta, Recipes, Uncategorized, Work on January 26, 2008 | No Comments »
My daughter asked me for the Cincinnati Chili recipe that I usually make. This is supposed to be “Empress Style” i.e. Empress Chili Parlor. This was the second request in a week (my son asked for it last weekend) - so I figured I’d post it today.
This is very nice on [...]
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Posted in Food, tagged Baking, Cooking, Florida, Food, Italian, Pizza, Recipes, Uncategorized, Vegetables on January 26, 2008 | No Comments »
I have a very nice recipe book called “PIZZERIA” by Evan Kleiman that had what I thought was a great recipe - Pizza with Spinach, Sausage, Salami, and Red Pepper. Sound good doesn’t it? It turned out AWFUL. It was wet, had a weird taste, and to boot - the [...]
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