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Royal Wedding Escape

Yes, we live in London.  Yes, we live less than a mile from Westminster Abbey where Prince William and Kate Middleton will be married Friday.  And yes, we decided to escape the Royal Wedding festivities and take a little vacation.  Yes, history in the making, everybody’s talking about it and we could be right there. [...]

Unique Enchiladas

Great served with Mexican quinoa and a Corona!

 

ENCHILADA SAUCE

This enchilada sauce is adapted from Emeril and the idea to use sweet potato puree came from the cookbook Deceptively Delicious (Jessica Seinfeld).  I use it to make my unique not so traditional enchiladas (recipe below).

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon flour
¼-½ cup sweet potato or carrot puree
¼ cup chili powder (I [...]

Mom's Sweet and Sour Pork

On my birthday when I was growing up, my mom always asked what I wanted her to make for dinner.  Since I can remember, I choose her sweet and sour pork.  The tradition continued for years and soon she was making it for me when I came home from college and even sending it back [...]

Bruschetta

Bruschetta is one of our favorites.  The best we’ve had (besides mine) was in Amalfi, Italy at this little unassuming cafe.  The tomatoes were an amazing bright red and absolutely delicious.  The one problem I’ve found is that there often tends to be too much olive oil.  After experiments with the recipe a [...]

Josh's Birthday

Josh’s birthday was Thursday, but I started celebrating Monday by cooking a different themed dinner for him each night.  It is not uncommon for me to make dinner, but I wanted to create some of his favorites leading up to his birthday.  I figured I should do it while I can because who knows how [...]