Recipes · Salads, Sides & Sauces

Creamy Baked Brussels Sprouts: Instagram Recipe #5

I know I was going to only do one month of Instagram recipes but there were more I wanted to try.  Plus, since first posting about the ridiculous amount of recipes I’ve saved on Instagram, I’ve saved an additional 13 recipes.  It’s a real problem. Creamy Baked Brussel Sprouts from @thenovicechef is the fifth Instagram… Continue reading Creamy Baked Brussels Sprouts: Instagram Recipe #5

Recipes · Salads, Sides & Sauces

Roasted Potatoes and Brussels Sprouts: The best side dish ever

I don’t usually like to toot my own horn or exaggerate BUT… I think I might have created the greatest side dish of all time.  I love potatoes, all potatoes in any form.  I do not love Brussels sprouts but I keep on trying.  And everyone loves bacon.  To steal from my best friend’s brother,… Continue reading Roasted Potatoes and Brussels Sprouts: The best side dish ever

Recipes · Salads, Sides & Sauces

How To Make Compound Butter

Compound Butter is an easy way to add a wow factor to almost any dish.  This is one compound butter recipe that is heavy on the herbs, just the way I like it.  Tweak it, double it, change it completely.  You can make yours however you like.  Think fresh herbs, spices, truffles, cinnamon, honey… the… Continue reading How To Make Compound Butter

Recipes · Soups

Vegetable Garden Soup: Soup #1 of Soup Month

Well, it is finally, officially fall! Woo Hoo!!! It had been so unseasonably hot here it seemed like it was never going to happen. I just couldn’t handle any more summer. I was willing fall to come with all that I had. I put up Halloween decorations a little too early. I wore boots out… Continue reading Vegetable Garden Soup: Soup #1 of Soup Month