I’m not the world’s biggest onion fan, especially raw onions that I feel like I can taste for the rest of the day. But then I discovered caramelized onions. Those are a whole different level of onion. They become sweet but still retain just a little bit of that onion bite. Caramelized onions are one…
Tory and I grew up on wild blueberries. Late July or early August we’d head out into the woods – to a secret spot that only my mom and her closest friends would share – and pick ice-cream buckets full of blueberries. Well Mom would pick by the ice-cream bucket and Tory and I would…
When I was a kid I went through a LONG phase where I didn’t like spaghetti with sauce, I just liked noodles, butter and Parmesan. My parents will blame this on my cousin Chelsea, who was at the time, living in the Twin Cities. So the story goes, I used to eat spaghetti with sauce…
One of the ultimate comfort foods for me is mashed potatoes and a good homemade gravy. I don’t really care what kind of meat comes with it – chicken, beef, turkey, even duck or goose as long as the gravy is done well. Gravy made from scratch is really the best kind and it’s also…
I know I’ve shared before that I have some serious concerns about my sister. I think the example I used was her (and her husband’s) dislike of goulash. Blasphemy, I say! Simply un-American. Further proof that something has gone seriously wrong with her, is she doesn’t like olives. Which, now that I think about it,…
Today’s recipe is all about comfort food for me. When I think of comfort food, I think back to my childhood and foods like chicken stuffed with Zup’s famous wild rice stuffing, which always led to chicken dumpling soup a couple days later, tuna casserole, pot roast, or what I’m going to show you today…