Roasted Chicken & Sausage Cornbread Stuffing

Herb and garlic roasted chicken with sausage apple cornbread stuffing. It’s getting to be that time of year. The holidays are just around the corner. So today, I’m sharing a tasty variation of the southern holiday staple, cornbread stuffing, served with an herb-roasted chicken. Cornbread stuffing, or dressing as it’s called where I am from, […]

Apple Butter Sweet Rolls

Sweet rolls filled with homemade spiced apple butter and frosted with maple cream cheese icing. These apple butter sweet rolls are a new way to get your apple a day. The rolls are not overly sweet and have a bit of tang from the cream cheese icing. I developed this recipe to use the apple […]

Hot Apple Buttered Rum and Apple Butter

Homemade warm apple cider mixed with a touch of butter served with spiced rum and maple whipped cream. Also, an easy homemade apple butter recipe. This recipe is kind of like getting three-for-one. From one batch of apples, you can make spiced apple cider, hot buttered rum, and apple butter. I don’t know about you, […]

Corn Poblano Chowder

Fresh corn, spicy poblanos, smoky bacon, and tender shrimp in a creamy broth. Chowder comes in many different varieties: Manhattan or New England, seafood or vegetable, thin or thick. It is also a dish that people have become very passionate about. Thus, creating strong ideas of what defines a chowder. I am also passionate about […]

Confit Duck Salad

Confit duck on a bed of baby spinach with persimmons, pomegranate, maple pecans, duck cracklins, goat cheese, and bourbon mustard vinaigrette. Well, this is it, the last post in this week’s series on duck. I decided to do this series because I feel that duck is something people rarely cook at home. Some of this […]

Seared Duck Breast and Duck Fat Potatoes

Pan-seared duck breast with crispy duck fat potatoes and cranberry-orange glaze. This duck is a great fall dinner when cranberries are in season. The sweet tartness from the cranberry glaze balances the richness of the duck and the potatoes. I sautĂ©ed spinach to add some veggies to this dish. Quickly heating it in a pan […]