The Best Cream of Mushroom Soup This Cream of Mushroom Soup is amazing and I’m not just saying that. I’ve been a huge fan of this soup since I was very young and, like many of you, I love mushrooms and I know a fantastic recipe when I taste one. It’s got that perfect sweet…
Is Chicken Stock Broth? Technically Chicken Stock and Broth aren’t the same thing, though, they basically have all of the same ingredients. Stock, however, is more concentrated and thicker because of the added bones and the cooked down gelatin secreted from them and Broth usually gets it’s flavor from adding meat instead. So to be…
The Best Beef Stew When I think of Beef Stew, I’m reminded of those Sunday afternoon dinners my family would have after several hours of church. The only problem was that any stew that my Mom made wasn’t very good because it was always runny, watered down and flavorless. So when I set out to make…
If you want to talk about an incredible recipe, let’s talk about these Chicken and Dumplings, because, wow. These are Drop Biscuit style dumplings with fresh chopped vegetables and breast meat from a roasted chicken. The dumplings are seasoned with herbs and the roasted chicken was marinated in a 24 hour brine, so this recipe…
Believe it or not, it’s so easy shopping for ingredients for Oriental recipes. I’d dare say, it’s even fun. You get so much culture in such a little place and sometimes its just really nice to get out of my comfort zone only to realize it can be just as comfortable somewhere else. The folks…
The Best Wontons Recipe If you like Chinese Wontons, you’re going to love this Red Sauce Wontons recipe. It’s generally sweet and spicy but you can control exactly how much you want of each, easily. It’s true that this recipe was once on P.F. Chang’s menu. I’m not quite sure if it is anymore but…
100% Vegetarian Vegetable Chili This Vegetable Chili, for me, is really exciting. Because this time of year I get to start, slowly but surely, harvesting what I’ve been growing in my garden all summer long. In this video I was able to use my Zucchini and Yellow Squash. Everything else unfortunately isn’t ready to be…
The BEST Menudo OMG I love me some Menudo. Honestly, I was the only one in my household that liked it until I came up with this recipe. It’s fresh and it knocks off 75% of the normal cooking time. I mean, I’ve heard of some recipes taking up to 6 hours to cook. That’s…
Amazing Stew with Pork This is a lovely Pork Loin and Hominy Stew. If I were to describe it, I would say that it sits somewhere between a Cajun style bowl of Pozole and Pork Chili Verde. It’s hearty and very tasty. This style is normally intended for a weekend brunch, but it can be…
How to Clean Squid This is a real simple and basic Tutorial that takes you straight to Cleaning and Preparing Whole Squid to cook and fry in any Calamari Recipe. There’s really isn’t anything to it. Anyone can do it. Just follow these simple basic methods and you’ll be on your way to cooking great…