Less than a week away from one of my most favorite days of the year! I hope you are all ready! We should probably begin to thaw our Turkeys in the refrigerator by tomorrow (at the latest) depending on the size of your bird. This year I am going with 18 lbs., the last two years, I…
Category: Appetizers
Pork & Chorizo Chilaquiles
I adapted this recipe from a recipe I found in an old Bon Appetit magazine. The magazine was a November 2006 holiday edition and the recipe was one of those on how to use up leftover Thanksgiving turkey. What drew me to this particular recipe was that the chips are actually added to the simmering…
Lemon Cucumber Pickles
A few days ago Granny brought me these three jars of food items she canned last week. I have only opened the chili sauce. It is so good you want to just eat it straight from the jar with a spoon! The pickled beets and lemon cucumbers are still marinating for now. The main reason…
PB&J Beef Satay
A beef satay appetizer was one of the many ideas, a restaurant I used to work at, came up with to use up leftover trim after portioning out steak cuts. Most customers were never aware, but as an employee, I thought it was fun to order this appetizer and then try to determine what cut…
Pickled Radishes & Red Onion
I’m pretty sure you can pickle anything. I remember eating pickled cows tongue straight from a Mason jar at my Granny’s house when I was a little girl. Although I cannot remember the flavor or the texture of it today, I do remember liking it then. Personally, I had never pickled anything before “this” jar…
Cowboy Pizza Dip
Not too long ago I saw a pin for pizza dip on Pinterest and traced the pin back to the blog “Closet Cooking.” The photographs of the dish made me want to crack open my laptop and reach inside of it with a hunk of French bread to scoop up and gobble down a heap…