Dinner In Disguise – Pan Seared Chicken over an Orzo Salad with Feta, Arugula, Pine Nuts and Dried Cranberries

I was in the mood for corn muffins. These have a nice crunch on top, but so soft and pillowy inside. This is the easiest recipes for corn muffins, you’ll never buy one of those blue boxes again!

I have Ina Garten to blame for my obsession of Jambalaya this week. Its been such a heavy work week that it has taken me til tonight to make it. Was it worth it? Oh yes.

Forget the processed ice creams you find in your local grocery store and make your own. Learn how to take all-natural ingredients with fresh & dried herbs and spices to create some refreshing new flavors!

This is your classic American burger. Simple and to the point. No binders, no fillers, just beef, salt and pepper and cheese on a toasted bun. It doesn’t get better than this.

I was recipe testing today and made a simple omelet of green and red peppers diced, sliced onions, spinach and basil. Very fresh and clean. The basil in the eggs is really nice surprise!

Tonight’s meal was a simple and quick. I steamed a salmon filet in parchment paper (otherwise known as en papillote) with some light soy, rice wine vinegar, sesame oil and some salt and pepper.

Another quick and easy dinner. This is another one of those dishes I grew up with. Mom would cook this up real quick, but she would use cut up strips of chuck steak. I decided to use skirt streak instead.

I, personally hadn’t made adobo for probably over 15 years. My mom actually cooked it at least once a week when I was growing up…

Salmon En Papillote with Mushroom Risotto

I have been craving beef for several days now and decided that I was going to have Steak Diane, but with a Ribeye steak instead…

Something really quick. The noodles were from the Ramen packet, but I didn’t use the seasoning packet…

Dinner In Disguise – Chicken Fried Steak: Tonight’s recipe is an adaptation from one of my childhood memories. I used to watch Nathalie Dupree when I was a kid and enjoyed watching her.

Spaghetti with Meat Sauce – One of the simplest dishes in my repertoire…

Dinner In Disguise: What can be simpler and quicker than a couple of roasted chicken thighs with herb roasted baby potatoes?

I love Turkey Tacos. I substitute ground turkey for ground beef and use a mixture of spices. Usually I will go out and buy one of those packets and add it to my browned turkey meat with onions and garlic.

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Got home late again and I’m finding it hard to cook a meal this late. Tonight we have some fried rice with potstickers from Diho Siam in Mission Viejo.

I recently came across a new blog aggregator (a site that centralizes blog posts from multiple sites into one site) called FoodBlogs.com. They currently have over 500 food blogs from around the world and it’s a great place to view content from hundreds of food blogs.

We all have one. Some have maybe 2 or 3 while others don’t have enough space for what they have. Some of us don’t know how long we’ve had it, while others know exactly how long they have had theirs.

So let’s call it a late lunch. I made a stuffed bone-in pork chop that was stuffed with mushrooms. Instead of polenta, I opted for risotto with mushrooms. The pork chop was moist on its own, thank the pig lords!

I need to cook with turkey more often. Usually you will see me making taco filling or chili, but tonight I was in the mood for a burger!

Chef Rich Sweeney of Top Chef Season 5 had a recipe for a Pasta Fagioli on his website. It looked so good I had to try it out.

There was a dish that I recall growing up. My mom would make it now and then and it was perfect with fresh steamed rice (what isn’t perfect with fresh steamed rice?) It is made with a squash called a Chayote or Mirlitons as I would find out later…

Well its the first weekend in awhile since I have cooked and I decided I wanted to make some Bolognese.

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Learn how to make pasta with Food Network’s Adam Roberts from FNDish and Marc Forgione from Forge.

Formerly Saigon Grill, it is now the Pho Ha Noi. I went in with some expectations, but sadly walked away disappointed. I think the first clue should have been that the place was empty…

I recently gave some advice to a co-worker about how I like to cook a filet mignon. When he came back to me the next morning he told me that his filet was a bit tough and that his meat really stuck to the pan…

So remember that huge bowl of soup that I couldn’t finish at Mentatsu? Well, the next day I had it for lunch, but I changed things up a bit. Not happy with my soup from the night before, I needed to fix it my way…

So, to transform this Filipino dish to my way I changed a few things up in this Beef Mechado. My mom made this dish often. She usually did it in under an hour and the meat was always too tough that we had to chew – alot…

The dish is called Bistek (derived from “beef steak”). Basically, it is strips of beef cooked in soy sauce, onions and something called calimansi juice. My version is just a bit different…

Well I had a few different ingredients in the fridge and decided to try a quick stirfry. In my wok I had beef, onions, ginger, scallions, baby bok choy, broth, soy sauce, sesame oil and shiitake mushrooms. I don’t have any exact measurements for you as it was all “on-the-fly” or shall I say “fry” cooking…

I have no idea what this dish is called. It’s a dish my mom made often and is something I yearn for once in a while. The ingredients are fairly simple. It’s not a fancy dish by any means and it doesn’t photograph well – most Filipino dishes don’t for some reason…

It only made it to about 68 degrees here in SoCal. All day I have been in the mood for soup. I have been craving Thai Coconut Crab Soup for some reason. The smell of Thai basil and cilantro mixed with the sweetness of the coconut milk and that hit of spice from the sambal….get out of my way, it’s time for soup!