Red cabbage and green bean slaw with a Thai peanut coconut dressing. This salad has crisp veggies, sprouts, fresh herbs, and crunchy peanuts mixed with a Thai-style dressing flavored with ground peanuts, lemongrass, lime juice, and coconut milk. In the recipe instructions below, the red cabbage gets soaked in cold water for 5-10 minutes. This […]
Tender chicken meatballs with a scratch-made coconut curry sauce, rice noodles, long beans, shallots, and fresh herbs. This is a mild northern Thai style coconut curry, served with ginger and lemongrass scented meatballs, rice stick noodles, herbs, and veggies. It is slightly sweet and full of flavor. The sauce is the focal point of this […]
Pan-seared tri-tip with roasted poblano and Anaheim pepper salsa. This is an easy summer recipe that pairs bright, fresh flavors of the season’s produce with tender steak. Tri-tip is a cut of beef from the bottom sirloin. The name comes from the triangular shape and tapered tip. It is also called the Santa Maria steak […]
Fluffy potato rolls baked parker house style with layers of garlic butter. Tender potato dough filled with garlic butter rolled into petite rolls and baked into bites of butter-soaked heaven. I made this recipe into small two-bite rolls so that I could eat more than one and not feel guilty. But with a couple of […]
Dijon mustard and fresh herb roasted lamb leg with oregano lemon chimichurri. This roasted lamb leg has lots of bright spring flavors with its fresh herbs, lemon, and Dijon and is perfectly portioned for two. If you would like to learn how to fillet a roast, check out my post for stuffed pork loin. The […]
Macaroni noodles in a cheddar-pepper jack beer cheese sauce with bacon garlic breadcrumbs. The mixture of beer and cheese has been around for centuries but has been gaining popularity in recent years. Today, I am taking this delightful mixture and turning it into mac & cheese. The beer cheese sauce is easy to make and […]
