| Mike's Recipe, April 2013 | |
Chicken MakhaniOur love for the lunch buffet at Thali of India is no secret. Ever since I took a job closer to home in Brockport, I've missed random lunch trips to the Henrietta spot. It's now a rare Saturday that it works out for us to enjoy the great curry. When we are at the buffet, Heather tends to take small samples of many of the different options available. Not me! I usually head straight for the wonderfully orange Chicken Makhani, always positioned at the far end of the buffet line. Because our trips have become so rare, I wanted to try my hand at making this curry at home. After googling around a bit I ended up selecting a recipe at allrecipes.com. There are lots of ingredients but only three cooking steps! It sounded relatively painless. Read more... 
|
|
| Topic(s): recipes new recipes home cooking indian curry chicken makhani | |
| By Mike on April 22, 2013 at 6:57pm EDT | Add Comment |
| Mike's Recipe, March 2013 | |
Pittsburgh SandwichWe've made several trips to the Sticky Lips on Jefferson Road in Rochester since it opened. Their beer selection is great and there's often a time when we are in the mood for some nice, big plates of barbecue. One dish that I've gravitated to on their menu is the Pittsburgh sandwich. It features pulled pork, coleslaw, and french fries all stuffed between two pieces of bread. It's strangely reminiscent of Rochester's famous garbage plates, but as the name implies, it comes from Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh origin is particularly interesting to me because my sister moved down there with her husband so we've visited several times. On our most recent trip we actually had a brief conversation about the sandwich, confirming that it is a thing down there, but we didn't actually go to the source. Upon returning, some research was in order and I found the Primanti Brothers Wikipedia page. Read more... 
|
|
| Topic(s): recipes new recipes sandwich pork coleslaw cornbread home cooking | |
| By Mike on March 17, 2013 at 4:10pm EDT | Add Comment |
| Valentines Day Dinner, 2013 | |
Going through our pictures I noticed our wonderful Valentine's meal that I wanted to share!Eight years ago... oh my that's a long time ago... Mike made me a very special dinner for Valentine's Day. This may have been the first time he searched out a recipe, bought the ingredients, and cooked without allowing me to help at all. It was an Emeril Lagasse recipe called Kicked up Pasta with Four Cheeses. Looking back, I have fond memories of watching Emeril Live on the Food Network's early days with Mike. This recipe also very special because after dinner he proposed! Read more... 
|
|
| Topic(s): home cooking holidays emeril lagasse pasta | |
| By Heather on March 6, 2013 at 5:26pm EST | Add Comment |
| Chocolate Covered Devils on Horseback | |
 We've been infatuated with Devils on Horseback ever since we had them at Magnolia Brewpub in San Francisco. I made them for my recipe of the month last march. Our latest idea was to marry the great dish with some chocolate. Chocolate on Horseback? Chocolate Covered Devils? Caged Devils on Horseback? Goat Cheese Stuffed Dates Covered in Chocolate with Crispy Bacon? I don't know what to call it. It was a collaborative effort. Heather actually used a piping bag to put the goat cheese and cream cheese mixture in the dates, which resulted in a much cleaner application than my past efforts. She also had the great idea to stick some black walnuts in as well for added taste and texture. We didn't actually wrap the dates in bacon, instead crisping it up to be placed on top after the chocolate coating. Read more... 
|
|
| Topic(s): home cooking recipes candy bacon chocolate tempering dates | |
| By Mike on February 3, 2013 at 5:03pm EST | Add/View Comments (1) |
| Mike's Recipe, January 2013 | |
Pork and BeansAnother Christmas past and another set of new cookbooks received. We each got each other a new book this year! Heather picked out Michael Symon's Carnivore for me. Subtitled 120 recipes for meat lovers, the book includes a ton of great insights into cooking meat. It's divided into sections based on the type of animal: beef, pork, lamb & goat, poultry, game, and a bonus section for sides. I can't wait to really dig into the book and start learning about how to properly cook all of these unique meats. A lot of the recipes will require a trip to a butcher that goes beyond what's available in a grocery store, but there are still several options that use cuts you can get almost anywhere. Our gluten free January was also a limiting factor in my recipe selection for the month but I ended up deciding on his Pork & Beans recipe. It sounded like a relatively straightforward one pot wonder that I could pull off and all I had to do was leave out the bread crumb topping to make it gluten free. It also involved a ton of bacon, sausage, and a ham hock. Pork heaven! Read more... 
|
|
| Topic(s): recipes new recipes home cooking books gluten free michael symon pork beans | |
| By Mike on January 21, 2013 at 6:51pm EST | Add Comment |
| Christmas Eve Dinner | |
We had the most jam packed holiday season ever and we are just recovering from it by finally getting our home slowly back in order. We kicked it off with a fairly new Christmas Eve tradition where Mike and I cook Italian for our families. Then... we had a wonderful Christmas at Mike's and lots of family outings: went to Stoneyard for dinner, watched the Hobbit and went to Sticky Lips BBQ, had another Christmas Dinner with my family because they had to work, had a game night with friends, celebrated New Year's Eve at Tap and Mallet, and celebrated a Birthday on News Years Day and throughout that entire time tried remodeling our half bath. As fun as it all was, we are glad things are getting back to normal with healthy eating, our routines, and also to have more time to finish our half bath project that of course did not go as planned. I would like to share our Christmas Eve menu inspired by David Rocco's Made in Italy cookbook. We've posted about his book before and if you love Italian food, get this cookbook! It is quickly becoming our favorite for menu inspiration and we will probably be using it for Christmas Eve planning for years to come! Read more... 
|
|
| Topic(s): books home cooking recipes david rocco italian holidays | |
| By Heather on January 6, 2013 at 1:28pm EST | Add/View Comments (1) |
| Mike's Recipe, November 2012 | |
Mexican Eggs in PurgatoryIn the days leading up to Thanksgiving I was perusing my website subscriptions and I stumbled on an article at Food & Wine's site called Easy Holiday Brunch Recipes. Making brunch for Heather and I on the day after the holiday sounded like a fun idea and the Mexican Eggs in Purgatory recipe jumped out at me. It sounded simple enough, essentially making a homemade green salsa, cooking some eggs right inside it, and putting some cheese on top. Finding fresh tomatillos at the grocery store ended up being a lost cause so we nervously committed to some canned ones instead. I also decided to use feta instead of cotija cheese because we conveniently already had some. Thankfully, we had some frozen jalapeno peppers left over from the garden so I got to use those as the first snow started falling on our house. Read more... 
|
|
| Topic(s): recipes new recipes home cooking food sites breakfast brunch eggs tomatillos | |
| By Mike on November 25, 2012 at 3:15pm EST | Add Comment |
| Heather's Recipe, Nov. 2012 | |
Tomato Saffron Soup!So it's the day before Thanksgiving and after a wonderful walk with my dog, I find it funny that I'm writing about "clean food" when so much planning goes into the decadence of tomorrow. Personally, I've been feeling run down and can't help but to look at my diet and re-energize my system with good food. I received a cookbook called Clean Start by Terry Walters as a gift and I just love it. It's full of simple "clean food" recipes with interesting combinations of nutritionally packed ingredients. It truly makes you feel like you are doing good for your body and the environment by focusing on eating locally and seasonally, dividing the book up into Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. Its such a beautiful book and I recommend it to anyone looking for tasty ways to increase their vegetable intake. I follow Terry Walters on Twitter and Instagram and enjoy her enthusiasm for healthy, happy living. Read more... 
|
|
| Topic(s): new recipes recipes home cooking books saffron soup tomato terry walters | |
| By Heather on November 21, 2012 at 8:15pm EST | Add/View Comments (1) |
| Heather's Recipe, Sept. 2012 - Eggplant | |
Eggplant and Goat-Cheese Sandwiches with Tomato Tarragon SauceI decided for my September recipe I would make something special using the beautiful eggplant from our garden and inspiration from my new addiction, Pinterest. When I saw this on my feed, I knew I had to to make this twist on eggplant parm with intriguing flavors of tarragon and goat cheese. I pretty much followed the recipe except for the addition of the yellow squash, also from the garden. The recipe was different but not overloaded with ingredients, which I appreciated.  Read more... 
|
|
| Topic(s): new recipes home cooking food sites eggplant goat cheese pinterest products | |
| By Heather on September 30, 2012 at 11:40am EDT | Add Comment |
| Mike's Recipe, September 2012 - Breakfast! | |
I know. I know. I seem to pick Bobby Flay recipes a lot for these things. What can I say. I'm seriously drawn to his style of cooking. This month, I had the urge to make a breakfast! It seemed like it would be a lot of fun to get up in the morning on a weekend, and put together a nice meal. From there, my head went to breakfast sandwiches. Fast food breakfast sandwiches are extremely popular. They are always really flavorful. As with most fast food, we do our best to stay away. Given that, I picked out Bobby Flay's Grilled Sausage and Egg Breakfast Sandwich.It's a really interesting and simple recipe. Bagel for the 'bread'. Simply done scrambled eggs and homemade sausage goes in the middle. Homemade sausage?! Sounds scary, but the way he suggests doing it is just like making burgers! We picked up some ground pork at Wegmans all ready to go. I took 8 ounces of it (we halved the recipe for only two sandwiches) and froze the rest. Along with the 8 ounces in a bowl, I added most of the spices from the recipe. We couldn't find any chile de arbol at Wegmans. Then I mashed everything together with my hands and formed two patties and set them aside. Read more... 
|
|
| Topic(s): recipes new recipes home cooking breakfast bobby flay sausage egg pork sandwich | |
| By Mike on September 27, 2012 at 7:25pm EDT | Add Comment |
| Log In | |
| Username: | |
| Password: | |
| register | |
| Popular Topics |
|
beer (41) home cooking (35) recipes (28) new recipes (26) restaurants (25) dinner (19) events (13) vacation (12) new restaurants (11) dessert (10) |
| Recent Comments |
|
New Restaurant - Burrito Fresco |
|
We'll definitely check it out again at s... |
|
New Restaurant - Burrito Fresco |
|
Hi! My name is Bitsy DeLorme and my hus... |
|
Vacation - Sarasota Bar Hopping |
|
I started the Cock & Bull Pub in 1997. B... |
|
Chocolate Covered Devils on Horseback |
|
looks yummy! |
|
Christmas Eve Dinner |
|
After so many years of doing traditional... |
| Archive |