Category: Recipe
Pickled Jalapenos
| January 9, 2012 | Posted by Cheeks under Appetizers, Main Course, Recipe |
Pickled jalapeno rings, the most important part of sports arena and movie theater nachos everywhere. Hell, all nachos, really, provided they aren’t too spicy. Like the one mexican pizza I once ate whose 100000 jalapeno rings were so spicy I still couldn’t eat it after picking them all off. That’s the thing about jalapenos,…
Grilled Pork Loin with Peach-Whiskey Sauce
| October 10, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Grilling, Main Course, Make-ahead, MEAT, Recipe |
Hello again, Internet friends! It has been a long time…. You see, I went and got hitched last summer, and we decided to “save” (and save up for) our honeymoon for a year and to take that special vacation as a one-year anniversary celebration, and to go all-out somewhere really special. Having just returned from…
Tuna & Green Bean Salad
| September 6, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Recipe, Salads, Side Dishes |
Here’s a quick salad to toss together in those late summer days when the produce is bountiful, the vegetables crisp, the sun sinking lower into the sky, and the thought of turning on the stove is less of an abomination. Because you need the stove, if only ever so breifly. But, trust me, it’s worth it.
Steakhouse Flank Steak
| August 25, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Grilling, Main Course, MEAT, Recipe |
With August sunsetting and summer drawing to a close, this time of year can be bittersweet. The light, the warmth, the long lazy days are numbered and limited now, instead of seeming an endless stretch into the future. But, oh, the light! The yellow, magical late summer sun! The lush greenery and brimming gardens! Late…
Green Pesto Pasta
| August 23, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Main Course, Recipe |
A quick weekday dinner Mommie sent me. She tore it out of a magazine – Midwest Living, perhaps? – and said she and Daddy-O had really liked it. So, of course, because mom knows best and mom’s cooking trumps all, I rushed to make it as soon as … I could eat pasta again. Stupid…
Three-Bean Salad
| August 18, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Recipe, Salads |
AKA, Five Bean Salad; Marinated Bean Salad; or, for those into the whole brevity thing, Bean Salad. It’s a straightforward salad of vinegary, tangy beans, briney olives and sharp onion that combine into a fresh & refreshing, protein-packed and low-fat side dish worthy of any barbecue around. Its tartness is the perfect counterpoint to…
General Tso’s Chicken
| August 15, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Main Course, Make-ahead, MEAT, Recipe |
Partially taken (the batter/frying part, mostly) from The Bitten Word’s General Tso: Takeout vs. Homemade showdown, partially of my own invention, and partially out of laziness (packet of general tso sauce mix I found in the back of the pantry). It’s not that I didn’t want to follow a truly homemade recipe for this…
Spicy Shrimp & Toasted Corn Cobb Salad
| August 12, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Main Course, Recipe, Salads |
Cooking Light, you rarely lead me astray. I have a weakness when it comes to reading food magazines. I get drawn in by glossy, close-up food photography/porn, and I often tear out recipes based more on the photograph than what’s in the recipe list. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, in a case like this,…
Homemade Aioli, and Grilled Chicken Sammiches as a Result
| August 9, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under MEAT, Recipe, Sandwiches |
Because I really needed to know how to make my own mayonnaise. Surprisingly enough, it’s super easy to whisk up a homemade aioli with things you likely have on hand. I always thought that making an emulsified sauce like mayonnaise/aioli would be as temperamental as French sauces are rumored to be, along the lines of finicky hollandaise or as…
Spinach-Stuffed Portobellas
| August 5, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Main Course, Recipe, Side Dishes, Vegetarian |
I love it when a plan comes together. At the grocery store, I had a few strange urges. One was to buy a new bottle of Cholula hot sauce, half of which I’ve already consumed one week later despite never really being a spicy food fanatic. Another was an irresistable need to make stuffed portobello…
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