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I am on official hiatus for a while. I’m still cooking, but right now, there’s SO MUCH going on in my life, I just don’t have it in me to do a lot of recipe development or posting. I’ll be back, and will no doubt make some posts from time to time. If you’d like [...]
Okay this isn’t really a classic stromboli. Real stromboli has all these lovely layered Italian meats and veggies. But I had some leftover rotisserie chicken and a hankering for barbeque AND pizza and…well, this is what I wound up doing with it. The end result was quite tasty. Ingredients: 1/2 a batch of gluten free [...]
One of my great pleasures as a food blogger is the opportunity to try products that I otherwise would never have access to. A while back I was offered the chance to try out some of Pastamore’s gourmet gluten free pasta line from J.D. Gourmet. I got three (so there will be more recipes to [...]
I make no secret of the fact that I am a food snob. Or the fact that I really like to eat. So when I think of Lean Cuisine, the first word that comes to mind historically is DISAPPOINTED. They never ever look as good as the picture on the box. The portion sizes are [...]
I’m always mucking around with my tomato soup recipe. It’s one of those things that tends to be a “this and that” kind of recipe with some of the same ingredients and some different ones, depending on what’s in the house. This one gets an out of season flavor boost by roasting the canned [...]
For Christmas this year, my big present was a 3 quart Le Creuset dutch oven. My initial intention was to make some beef bourginon a la Julia Child, but that required a few things I didn’t have around the house. So I opted for some straight up beef stew. At some point during the [...]
I love carbonara. It is, hands down, my very favorite pasta. The true traditional carbonara is straight up bacon and eggs and pecorino with the yolk making this lovely creamy, velvety sauce. What you see in restaurants is usually all of these things and loaded with cream to boot. Decadent and HORRIBLE for you. So [...]
In the holiday season, we’re inundated with all kinds of sweet treats—almost none of which are gluten free. It’s the south. We deal. My concession one night was to make up a batch of gluten free, slightly healthier homemade brownies. These are rich, moist, and delicious. Nobody would know they were gluten free or lighter. [...]
Chicken thighs get a bad rap. In our chicken breast obsessed world, folks seem to think that chicken thighs are horribly fatty and bad for you. Not so. If you remove the skin and fat, they aren’t bad at all, particularly compared to the ginormous multi-serving chicken breasts that seem to show up in our [...]
I’ve been hearing about kale the last couple of years as some kind of nutritional power house. But it’s a green and other than basic spinach, I’m not really a fan of greens. Given I’m southern, this probably breaks a law somewhere, but whatever. Sometime earlier this year, I saw kale chips mentioned on one [...]
Who doesn’t love chicken pot pie? It’s one of those classic comfort foods. I confess, I actually love the ones straight from the freezer section. But it’s one of those that doesn’t just scream “gluten free” OR healthy. Now I have a light and healthy version using Phyllo dough for me, but that doesn’t meet [...]
I’ve had a bottle of REAL maple syrup hanging out in my cabinet for at least a couple of months. I’ve been saving it, like gold (since it costs so much!), for something really special. Given that maple and breakfast sausage goes SO well together, I thought that a maple and sausage stuffing would be [...]
In the name of healthy, I’ve been trying out a lot more vegetarian recipes the last few months. Perhaps my FAVORITE that I stumbled across is this recipe for black bean and sweet potato burritos from One Lovely Life. The flavor of these is out of this world and they’re SO SIMPLE. You can make [...]
One of our family’s favorite holiday breakfast foods are kolaches. Other folks call them pigs in a blanket, but my mama always called them kolaches, so kolaches they are. The usual version are made with cocktail sausages and a can of whampum biscuits (you know, the rolls that you whamp against the counter to open), [...]
What do you do with all that leftover turkey? What leftover turkey, you may be asking. Well, I cooked an EIGHTEEN POUNDER this year (they were down to little bitty and really big by the time we went to pick one up, and, well, I like leftovers), and I had to do SOMETHING with the [...]
Happy New Year, y’all! I’ve kind of fallen off posting since early November. The tail end of the year was super busy for me, wrapping up a huge book project, juggling family and a bunch of end of year stuff at the Evil Day Job. I’ve been cooking (I always do), and I’ve even been [...]
Paella is one of those things I’ve learned to love fairly recently in my foodie life. It’s a concept that’s great for using up whatever you have on hand. In this case that was some bell pepper, sausage, and chicken. And some other stuff. It’s a delicious, earthy sort of dinner. Servings: 3 at 628.73 [...]
So there’s nothing traditional about these empanadas. In fact, I don’t know that I’ve ever had actual empanadas. But when I got my new set of dough presses (which I bought for making dumplings), I knew I had to do something to try them out. Empanadas seemed just the thing. These make for a [...]
We are HUGE fans of The Pioneer Woman’s Ranch Style Chicken. I’ve been saying for ages that it would make a marvelous base for pork as well, so I finally got around to giving it a try with a few change. OMG, SO GOOD. I wished I’d doubled the recipe. Serves 2. Ingredients: 1/8 cup [...]
I got this recipe in my inbox from my Cook’s Country newsletter. I liked the idea of it and have had it on my To Try list for quite a while. This was delayed somewhat by my not being able to find cherry peppers (which I hadn’t even heard of). Ultimately found some at Kroger [...]
One of my favorite sides is baked zucchini fries. They’re light, crispy, and I can eat an entire plate for a meal and be quite happy. I decided I wanted to give the same concept a try with eggplant. I’ve done this once before and was wholly unimpressed with the result, but I hadn’t given [...]
I am a southerner, so I have a deep and abiding love of hash brown casserole. The original is loaded with fat and cheese and cream of mushroom soup and it’s delicious. But not gluten free and definitely NOT healthy. So when I came across this recipe from The Spotted Lamb, I knew I had [...]
We have a lot of standby favorites of pizza, but every once in a while I get a hankering to do something different. When I found a last bag of pulled pork in the freezer that needed using up, I decided to turn it into an unconventional pizza. The end result was delicious! Definitely going [...]
I ran across this recipe on Pinterest and immediately knew I HAD to try it. Because, seriously, it combines two of my favorite foods–white pizza and grilled cheese. What’s not to love? It’s a Cheese Lover’s Dream. I opted to make these Friday night for our girls’ weekend. Mine didn’t turn out as pretty [...]
I love pie. I love pie so much that growing up I had birthday PIE instead of birthday cake. My favorite is one of the easiest around, lemon icebox. The only component of this that has to be adapted to be gluten free is the graham cracker crust. I used this recipe from About.com and [...]
So it’s National Pasta Day! How cool is it that we have a day for that? So of course I had to feature, you know, pasta. I got invited by Classico to try out their new Creamy Spinach and Parmesan Pasta Sauce, along with a fabulous pasta pot, a swanky new Oxo grater, and some [...]
One of the things we missed the most when we switched to gluten free life is Chinese dumplings or potstickers. The ones we love are absolutely a labor OF love, backbreaking and time consuming and SO WORTH IT. Given the easy tearing nature of gluten free dough, I thought that they were out of our [...]
Hubs and I have had a monstrous sweet tooth lately. One of the things I haven’t really made since our conversion to gluten free is homemade cookies. We tried one of the store-bought gluten free cookie mixes and it was terrible. Dry as dust and literally crumbled TO dust. Not a keeper. As with all [...]
As soon as cool weather hits, I start thinking soup. It’s easy, warm, and filling. I didn’t actually make this batch for us, but for some neighbors who recently had a baby (welcome Carter!). This makes a massive batch and is easily frozen, so it makes a GREAT food to take to others. Ingredients: 5 [...]
I decided to make an effort to start incorporating a few meals a week that are not carb heavy. This is a challenge for my meat and potatoes self. I have a hard time thinking of meals that don’t include pasta, rice, potatoes, or a bread, so I turned to Kalyn’s Kitchen, where I always [...]
I usually try to feature gluten free recipes on Friday that are adaptations of stuff that’s usually not gluten free. This dish is not one of those. It’s a straight up normal kind of dish that happens to be gluten free. It was DEAD EASY and FAST for a weeknight dinner–and as I have had [...]
The weather’s cooling off (well, dropping to cool evenings and low 80s during the day—we call that cool in Mississippi) and that means SOUP. Crock pot soups make a marvelous means of cleaning out the pantry dish. I had some beef stew in the freezer that needed using and…after that it was pulling stuff out [...]
When you go gluten free, of course the biggest thing you crave are all the things you aren’t supposed to have. That includes good sandwich bread. We’ve tried a handful of recipes with varying degrees of success. Most were okay for regular sandwiches, but were epic epic fail for grilled cheeses (which, IMO, constitute their [...]
We had people over for supper this past weekend, and I’d planned to make my Extra Meaty Baked Ziti. Well, this is what I get for not checking my ingredients before I went to the grocery. I didn’t have the cottage cheese or fresh mozzarella. Rather than change the menu entirely, I just opted to [...]
Chicken caccitore is one of those dishes that most people have heard of and don’t actually know what it is. I’ve never actually had it, but had it pop into my head when I was doing my menu planning for the week, so I started prowling around on Food Blog Search to see what other [...]
Were a southern family, so we LOVE our biscuits. I’ve tried a few other gluten free biscuit recipes that were tasty but…well, frankly, they were a pain in the butt to make. Grating butter? I’m a klutz. I’d just as soon not have extra protein from my knuckles in the recipe from that process. So [...]
In keeping with the whole one-skillet meal thing lately, I opted to adapt my recipe for Pulled Pork Burrito Skillet to work with some leftover roast chicken and a jar of salsa verde. The end result was delicious and easy, from fridge to table in fifteen minutes. Now THAT’s what I call a week night [...]
This recipe actually showed up in my inbox from AllRecipes as the Daily Dish. I’ve been big into one pot or one dish kinds of dinners on weeknights lately because my husband works 12 hour shifts and once he gets home at 7:15, we still have to do a quick walk with the dogs, during [...]
This is another recipe from the fabulous You Won’t Believe It’s Gluten Free. I made a small modification, swapping in skim milk for the apple juice called for in the original recipe. The end result was a crispy, tasty baguette that’s great still warm from the oven with butter or toasted up and used for [...]
A friend recently gifted me a mammoth jar of ground saffron. This is, in case you didn’t know, the most expensive spice on earth, so this was a kingly gift indeed. And to my mind, nothing says saffron like paella. I’ve made a lot of pseudo paellas in the past, taking shortcuts and cheats. This [...]
Welcome to the first installment of Mix It Up Monday, where I highlight some of the recipes I’ve tried from other fabulous food bloggers. I came across this recipe for Crock Pot Gyros at A Year of Slow Cooking. Now I love Stephanie’s blog because they are also a gluten free household. Gyros are a [...]
This recipe comes from the fabulous You Won’t Believe It’s Gluten Free. I have consistently been super impressed by the bread recipes I’ve tried from this book. Unlike most of the gluten free breads I’ve tried, these don’t tear super easily and truly hold up like real bread. We used these for gyros and they [...]
I love pasta salad. It’s a great way to use up random veggies and cheeses. It’s also a great way to put together a cold, balanced lunch with lots of flavor for middle of the week. This one serves 5 generously at 300 calories and 4.5 grams of fat per serving. Ingredients: 8 oz whole [...]
One of the reasons I cut back to posting two days a week here at P & P is that I just flat don’t develop new recipes at a fast enough rate. Sometimes we just want old favorites. And many MANY times, I want to mix things up by trying out recipes from OTHER food bloggers. [...]
This totally started out as a means to make chicken rotel, but when I got out all the ingredients, I discovered I didn’t have a single can of rotel! This is an unheard of state of affairs because we always have rotel. But anyway, I had to make some changes. All these sorts of casseroles [...]
I love omelets. Big, flavorful, loaded with whatever is handy (usually sausage, bacon, or beef in our house of meat lovers). A frittata is essentially an open faced omelet. Takes longer to cook because you finish it off in the oven, but that frees you up to work on other components of brunch or do [...]
One of the things that we’ve missed in our household since going gluten free is proper burritos. I have found a couple of different gluten free flour tortillas recipes that are quite tasty, but like most gluten free bread type products, they tear very easily, which doesn’t make for a good burrito cover. When someone [...]
