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What do you get when you cross a broccoli chicken casserole with a green bean casserole? I call it Crispy Onion Broccoli Chicken Casserole. My family loves green bean casserole. They also really like crockpot chicken broccoli noodles. So, I made a hybrid casserole of them both. While I used homemade cream of mushroom soup, […]
Whether you call them Meatloaf Drumsticks or Meatloaf Lollipops, they are mini meatloaves on sticks. I used to make a version of these Barbecue Meatloaf Drumsticks when I was in elementary school from a recipe I found in one of my childhood cookbooks. I can still see the black and white illustration of how the […]
Inspired by the orange color of my small head of cauliflower, I decided to deep fry some cauliflower and coat them in a bottled orange sauce…similar to chicken wings. My daughter really likes the Cheesecake Factory’s Korean Cauliflower, so I thought she would like deep-fried cauliflower paired with another favorite orange sauce. Although I buy […]
My husband has become obsessed with the Korean dish Bulgogi, specifically Bulgogi Sauce. I happened to pick up a large jar of bulgogi sauce on sale at an international market in Atlanta last year. My intention was to just try it and see how it compared to the authentic Korean restaurants’ bulgogi. It turns out […]
Y’all! I can not even describe how much I enjoyed the Char Siu pork that I made the other day. The mixture of sweet and savory hit just the right note for this perfectly cooked pork. Seriously, eating it was euphoric! Unfortunately, my sad picture does not come remotely close to doing the dish justice. […]
Inspired by KFC (Korean Fried Chicken), I ventured into making a rarity at my house, fried chicken. As we are currently having a pandemic, I was only able to get chicken wings from the store. So, fried chicken wings with an Asian-ish glaze was born and it has been a hit. I went from not […]
Let me start off with an apology. I am embarrassed to say that I left the green scallion tops in a bowl and never included them in the dish this time around. Oops! The good news is that the dish still tasted good…only missing a little fresh onion flavor. Kung Pao Chicken is not a […]
Grilled Sweet Tea Pork Chops with Spiced Peaches may be the epitome of summer in the South. The sweet tea brine results in flavorful and tender chops. The brine also makes the pork chops easier to grill without drying them out. Grilled Sweet Tea Pork Chops are easy to make, but they do require a […]
Some of the best dishes I developed seem to have started off as a mistake. This recipe came about because I intended to make bean and cheese stuffed poblano peppers, but the peppers did not hold their shape because I lost my mind and blistered the skins off of them. No, you are not suppose […]
Nearly every Ohio recipe collection cookbook I own has a recipe or two for Johnny Marzetti. Each recipe is a little different. The original recipe is said to have been created by Teresa Marzetti (of T.Marzetti Co. dressings fame) in her Columbus, Ohio restaurant. It became very popular. Despite living on the border of Ohio for […]
