Homemade marinara sauce comes together quickly using canned tomatoes and has wonderful depth of flavor from garlic, red wine, and fresh herbs that you just cannot get from store-bought. Use this marinara sauce recipe as a base for your Italian-inspired dishes or even just for a simple spaghetti night dinner. This recipe was first posted…
Grown-up Mixed Berry Shortcake
Blueberries and strawberries simmered with red wine to make a beautiful, elevated sauce to top light and sweet angel food cake. This red, white, and blue Grown-up Mixed Berry Shortcake is a perfect dessert for your next patriotic party. Isn’t this dessert perdy?! We enjoyed this bit of heaven for 4th of July this year. As…
Homemade Pizza Sauce
Homemade Pizza Sauce is so easy and SO much more flavorful, you will never go back to store-bought again. “Clean eating” is the catch phrase of the day. If you haven’t heard of clean eating it’s the very correct notion of avoiding processed foods. Purchased pizza sauce is a processed food. Not as bad as,…
German Braised Red Cabbage
German Braised Red Cabbage is savory, sweet, colorful, and the perfect addition to your holiday table. German Braised Red Cabbage Sweet, tender, braised red cabbage is a recent discovery of ours and a new favorite. Pictured above front and center, it was a star in our Christmas buffet this year. The sheer fact that this…
Smoky Slow-Cooker Beef Brisket
Smoky Slow-Cooker Beef Brisket is a simple solution for those without a smoker or grill to cook this flavorful meat traditionally. My crockpot and I recently decided to take our relationship to the next level. We have gone from just hooking up at parties, when I needed keep some food warm, to a full-blown courtship….
Julia’s Boeuf Bourguignon
The one, the only, Boeuf Bourguignon as presented by the legendary Julia Child. Julia’s Boeuf Bourguignon is every bit as challenging and glorious a dish to make, living up to all expectations. Professional chef, food blogger, or home cook for your family, making this recipe at least one in your life is a MUST. I did…
Fall Sangria
Fall Sangria has everything you love about sweet, fruity sangia, but with notes of apple, cinnamon, and clove for fall. It’s the fall equinox. Sounds like reason to have a drink to me! Mix up a pitcher and hand of the glasses for a sweet and fruity drinkity drink for the season where we want…
PB & Champagne Grape Tarts
Here’s a little riff on PB&J for grown-ups…A couple days ago, co-worker brought in some champagne grapes to share. I had never had them before and they are delicious! So much flavor in such a teeny grape – very reminiscent of grape jelly I thought. And hence, today I made these little tarts… PB &…
Not My Mom’s Goulash
My Mom’s goulash recipe, also known as American chop suey, updated with red wine and thyme, and some veggies snuck in. It is amazing how a couple little changes can have such a dramatic effect on a classic dinner dish. So let me explain, because my mom will see this title and not be pleased….Growing up, my…
Slow Cooker Italian Beef Short Ribs
There is a wonderful site called ItalianFoodForever.com. It’s by a lady who lives between Italy (my dream) and Florida (my reality). I have tried a bunch of her recipes and have been really happy with the outcomes. So, I wanted to try beef short ribs and I gave her recipe a go. Absolutely delicious! Here…