Dinners

New Years French Onion Soup!!

New Years French Onion Soup!!


I don’t think I’m going to be successful in any attempt to find my New Mexico New Years Posole (I would die for real …

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Dina’s Addictive Pepperoni Bread

Dina’s Addictive Pepperoni Bread

NOTE: Below you will find another post from my sister-in-law, the awesome Dina. She made Pepperoni Bread for me to taste during our Thanksgiving cooking …

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Stuffed Winter Squash, My Thanksgiving Delicacy

Stuffed Winter Squash, My Thanksgiving Delicacy


I’ve been thinking about what to cook for a while now and really wanted to find an easy to cook fall/winter recipe that would …

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Meat Muffins! Meat Muffins! Everyone’s Crazy ’bout my Meat Muffins! Muffin Weekend Pt 1

Meat Muffins! Meat Muffins! Everyone’s Crazy ’bout my Meat Muffins! Muffin Weekend Pt 1


Did I catch you with my headline? Meat Muffins? Is this some twisted Sweeney Todd scenario involving a barber and Helena Bonham Carter? No …

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Claire’s Special Foie Gras and Fresh Figs (homegrown!)

Claire’s Special Foie Gras and Fresh Figs (homegrown!)

My first experience with fig trees was both glorious and horrifying.

I was working at Los Poblanos and we had to harvest the figs …

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Ratatouille, French Made

Ratatouille, French Made

My relationship with France snuck up on me. My father is a wine collector and my parents had spent the years just before my birth …

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Capers and “The Whore’s Pasta”: Lessons from Provence

Capers and “The Whore’s Pasta”: Lessons from Provence


 
When my mother returned from her years abroad in the early seventies, she had a very hard time finding capers.  She didn’t know …

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The Vegetarians Dream Big Mac – Quinoa Cakes! Healthy yet DELICIOUS!

The Vegetarians Dream Big Mac – Quinoa Cakes! Healthy yet DELICIOUS!


If you do not know by now, Vegetarians LOVE Quinoa. Granted, it’s a grain, and its healthy, but it is also a great substitute …

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Stuff’d Week Pt 2: Stuffed Summer Vegetables, Two Ways

Stuff’d Week Pt 2: Stuffed Summer Vegetables, Two Ways


What do you do with an overabundance of zucchini?
I have too much zucchini or as we say here, courgettes. My father-in-law loves …

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Stuff’d week Pt 1: Crock-Pot Stuffed Bell Peppers

This SUPER delicious treat is kicking off one of two posts for what I am dubbing “Stuff’d Week.” A Bakin’ with Brian Original. The second …

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