July 10, 2015
Nothing says summer like a nice refreshing salad. This salad combines grilled corn, black eyed peas, tomatoes and onions in a tangy olive oil lemon sauce. You could serve this salad with grilled meat or also as a dip with tortilla chips. The next time you grill out and have left over corn, don’t waste it by tossing it out (my pet peeve is wasting food), repurpose it in this Grilled Corn and Black Eyed Pea Salad. Try it out and...
July 6, 2015
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Follow my blog with Bloglovin I wanted something a little different to top my Smoked and Slow Cooked Boston Butt Pulled Pork Sandwiches so I took an Alabama favorite and put my own spin on it. I don’t know about your family but mine loves garlic so adding garlic to the classic was a no brainer. Try April’s Alabama White Sauce the next time you grill. We like it combined with my Peach Habanero Barbecue Sauce....
July 6, 2015
As promised, here is my recipe for Peach Habanero Barbecue Sauce. This sauce was a hit on the 4th of July. We put it on our Smoked and Slow Cooked Boston Butt Pulled Pork Sandwiches. We also added a little April’s Alabama White Sauce and that really took the sandwiches to an even higher note! This sauce would be great on grilled chicken or even oven roasted chicken. It is a little spicy and a little sweet. The best of...
July 4, 2015
First of all, Happy Fourth of July! I am sitting here stuffed to the max, but our lunch was so good, I wanted to share my recipe for Smoked and Slow Cooked Boston Butt Pulled Pork Sandwiches with you all right away. I will be posting my Peach Habanero Barbecue Sauce, my White Barbecue Sauce, Grilled Corn and Black Eyed Pea Salad and Potato Salad Recipe with you this week. I had been wanting to cook a Boston Butt...
June 27, 2015
Can you keep a secret? I thought not, but I am going to tell you anyway. This is a secret that I am happy to share with you. And that is that the secret to Light and Crispy Southern Fried Chicken is using a combination of self-rising flour and rice flour. I don’t fry food that often but when I do, I want it to be light and crispy. I have been using rice flour instead of self-rising flour...
June 24, 2015
Nothing says comfort food like meat and potatoes. That is why you are going to love my recipe for Kofte Patates aka Meatballs with Potatoes. It is a Turkish dish and is super easy to prepare. You could even prepare it the night before, cover with aluminum foil, then just take out of the fridge while you are pre-heating your oven. Then bake as directed and pair with a nice salad. You will have dinner on the table in...
June 21, 2015
After our appointment with the chiropractor last Thursday, my daughter, Stella and I stopped at the Attalla Farmer’s Market to pick up some fresh fruits and veggies. Although there were only four vendors there this week, we got some really fresh and pretty produce. We bought eggplant (the small variety I like), squash, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, onions and a watermelon. Since we could not eat all the peaches before they were about to be over ripe, I decided to make us...
May 27, 2015
As promised, here is my recipe for Tavuk Doner or Chicken Doner. Considering I did not have a “real” doner machine from Turkey, I think the results were fantastic. The chicken was tender and the spice was delicious. If I would have had the real machine and the traditional sword-like knife that is used to cut the meat as it cooks, it would have been perfect. There were no complaints and out of five pounds of a combination of breast...
May 25, 2015
A while back, I bought a rotisserie attachment for my charcoal grill from Wally World for only six bucks! I have been chomping at the bits to try it out. Of course the first thing that came to mind is to make doner. Doner is a Turkish dish that is meat on a spit that is cooked vertically. I will have to make a few adjustments because the rotisserie is horizontal, but I am sure it will turn out just fine. Anyway to try...
May 3, 2015
I have a confession to make. . . I created my Oat and Sunflower Seed Yeast Loaf recipe to use up some sunflower seeds that I had in a jar in my spice cabinet. Is that crazy or what? I know the majority of my post lately have been recipes for bread but every time I reached into my spice cabinet, that little jar of sunflower seeds were taunting me, “Use us, use us!” So this morning was as good...
April 22, 2015
Biscuits with butter and jelly are one of my favorite breakfast combinations. If you like biscuits, you are going to love this recipe. It is quick and easy and can be made in the bowl. No need to roll them out. Just put all the ingredients in a bowl, mix well, shape into biscuits and bake about 15 minutes. These were so good with butter and fig jelly but they would have been great with some gravy too. I...
April 14, 2015
My friend Rania recently showed me how she makes Makdous, which is eggplant cured in olive oil and that is the inspiration for my newest pasta recipe, Penne Pasta with Makdous, Tomato and Feta . Making Makdous is a pretty tedious process and I will make a post on that later. I will quickly tell you how it is made. We started by preparing the eggplant. This is just removing the stems. We then boiled the eggplant briefly. Next, we salted...
