Variations on Cooking

Ingredients Note: dices should be about 1/2 inch or so 3 cups diced sunchokes 3 cups diced red potatoes 6 beets, peeled and diced 2...

This is actually my Grandmother recipe; I have all her cookbooks and this recipe was stuck in one of her books on a piece of paper in her...

Also on that same legal pad was this recipe. I remember my Mom made a great stuffed cabbage and a few years ago I decided to create one...

I have been playing with the flavors of Southeast Asian, it is an area I have not explored before. Here is one of the recipes I recreated...

I was in my kitchen today working on my November News Letter recipes and I came across these recipes in one of my legal pads in the...

This a pretty easy recipe but packs great flavor. Ingredients 8 bone-in, skin-on, Chicken Thighs 2 cups homemade Chicken Stock 2/3 cup...

I have been on a quick bread kick lately. I have been playing around with ratios to see what I come up with. This one I made a few times...

This is usually in my fall recipe rotation, it is an easy soup to make with an optional kick to it. Ingredients 3 pounds of butternut...

I received an email requesting this recipe. I served this once at a dinner party. I never really like split pea soup, due to the ham it...

This a twist on your traditional Potato soup: Traditional Cream of Potato soup is great but I thought it needed something more, a kick....

This a light soup that is perfect for early fall. This does not freeze all that well so I reduced the recipe to four servings....

More soups, it has been quite chilly here in the evenings which makes me want to make soups. This recipe is pretty simple, I had a...

Here is another great soup, it is very easy, there is just a lot of stuff in it. Ingredients Broth 2 large yellow onions quartered 6...

Ingredients 1 pound of Cremini or Chanterelles mushrooms 1 pound of a small button or Morels mushrooms 1 pound of Stiitskes or Enoki...

This is a combination of a recipe I found for beef soup, that was a bit boring and a recipe we learned in China for beef stir fry: I just...

I am still playing with bread recipes, we had a version of this bread a few years ago and I have trying to recreate it ever since and I...

Ingredients 3 cups of unbleached flour 1 cup chopped pecans 1 1/4 sticks of butter, diced 1 can of fresh pumpkin, 15oz can 2 eggs 1/3 cup...

When I was in Singapore I always had this soup, it was my favorite. Then several months ago I thought I would try to recreate it since I...

This salsa keeps it crunch after it has been canned. I have tried many types of salsas to can, and while they all taste good, some of...

Next recipe in the canning series. Now this is sort of a relish and it is a bit on the spicy side, you can omit the chilis when creating...