Sometimes, a little fruit salsa is exactly what a dish needs to make it complete. I like to serve a fruit salsa with grilled fish, especially swordfish and tuna. This is one of those recipes where the basics are constant and the star ingredient (the fruit) can change. Fruit Salsa 1/2 Medium Onion, minced 2 [...]
Okay, so I’ve been dormant for a long time. My apologies. Maybe this will make up for it. Maybe not. Sometimes, you just need to get creative. Sometimes, creativity comes out of necessity. Sometimes, it just happens. That’s what happened tonight. I hadn’t planned my dinner very well, and found a fridge full of good things, [...]
Three and a half weeks ago, I took inventory of my goals for 2011 and realized that I was falling short on the most important one of the three. I’d set out to lose 30 pounds in January and hadn’t changed a thing about my lifestyle that would get me on track. I’ve been “on [...]
As the days turn cold, I’m hankering for some warming comfort food. Things like soups, stews, mashed potatoes, and roasted meats are coming to mind. Last night I didn’t have a plan for dinner, which was not too out of the ordinary for a Friday. I was planning to go to the store and just [...]
One of the things that I really love about cooking is that you can get really creative with your food. I last wrote about cooking chicken with indirect heat and smoke. This technique and the simple recipe yielded one great chicken dinner last weekend, but there is more to the story. I made a smokey chicken stock [...]