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Tzatziki Sauce

March 4, 2010

Tzatziki is traditionally served as a Greek appetizer or sauce used with Gyros and Souvlaki dishes, but is delicious on its own, and makes a wonderful dip or salad dressing. I also love serving a side of this wonderful, cooling yogurt sauce when I make a spicy dish, it goes especially well with lamb if [...]

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Charro Beans

March 1, 2010

I’m a really big fan of simple recipes that are authentic, and really tasty, and this is definitely one of those! I love making this dish because you can throw all of the ingredients into a big pot and pretty much forget about it for 2 hours, except for the occasional trip into the kitchen [...]

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Chorizo Sausage and Egg Breakfast Burrito

February 24, 2010

Breakfast in my house often consists of scrambled eggs with something spicy mixed into them, flour tortillas, cheese, and more often times than not beans.  By this point we must have come up with about 100 different combinations for breakfast burritos, but this is my go to recipe; it’s so easy and is a nice [...]

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Marinated Top Round London Broil

February 24, 2010

London broil is not actually the name of a piece of meat, but is actually the name of a method used to cook a tougher cut of meat. In grocery stores, cuts of meat that are sold as London broil are usually top round or shoulder roasts which are usually around 2 – 3 pounds.  [...]

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Sauteed String Beans with Garlic and Slivered Almonds

February 23, 2010

I grew up eating sting beans, they were one of the few veggies I would actually eat, and this has always been one of my favorite ways to prepare them. I just love the simple combination of the beans sautéed in garlic and olive oil with slivered almonds, especially if you can get some wonderful [...]

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Pulled Kansas City Style BBQ Chicken Sandwich

February 18, 2010

This is a wonderful pulled chicken sandwich that is drenched in one of my favorite BBQ sauces. This is a Kansas City inspired BBQ sauce that has an amazing contrast between sweet and spicy flavors, and has a really nice smoky taste. I love using this sauce with pulled chicken sandwiches; I just think the [...]

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Roasted Garlic

February 17, 2010

When I was younger my family used to go out to a restaurant in midtown Manhattan called Vince and Eddies, and it was amazing.  One of my favorite things about that restaurant was that they served a whole roasted head of garlic with some wonderful bread, and you could scoop the garlic cloves right out [...]

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Split Pea Soup

February 16, 2010

On all these snowy days that we’ve been having there’s nothing better than a big bowl of homemade soup, especially if it’s Split Pea. This is such a simple recipe that it’s amazing it can be so good. If you have a free couple of hours you can throw all the ingredients together and in [...]

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