The day I found out that commercial chorizo was primarily composed of salivary glands and lymph nodes was the day I stopped eating it. Later I started to make my own from pork I ground myself. These days I tend to limit my pork consumption because it’s so much harder to trace what really went […]
Lazy Upside Down Cottage Pie
Shepherd’s Pie was one of the first few things I learned to cook. Unfortunately, I also learned to cook it all wrong and didn’t realize that it was supposed to be a meat sauce rather than a tomato-riddled marinara-thon until some time in college. In fact, it was really a kind of jarred tomato sauce […]
Classic Crockpot Chili
It’s about this time of year that I have to start filling up my freezer with healthy food on the off-chance that we might get snowed in for a few days. And if the snow doesn’t happen, then this classic crockpot chili will get you through a couple of cold days anyway. It is also […]
Cilantro Meatballs in Salsa Sauce
MEEEAATBAAAAAAAAAALLS! Uh, yep, that does get yelled around my house fairly often. Usually in a hideous faux-Italian accent that would embarrass Luigi. But, hey, it makes me laugh 😛 For me to bother making meatballs on a weeknight I either have to (a) be begged and (b) cut a corner or two with the sauce […]