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The objective here is to use food as a means to create stories of your own. My hope is that you use these recipes to make you just as happy as they have made me inventing them. Continue sharing my friends!

Dessert
Rice Krispeys with chocolate and sprinkles.
Marshmallow Rice Krispie Treats

Marshmallow Rice Krispie Treats

Marshmallow Rice Krispie Treats
Can't get eaiser than 3 ingredents to make the same rice krispie treats as home! These are also great for parties like Halloween or Christmas you can make them your own by adding vanilla or chocolate drizzle on top or sprikels to make it more festive for each season or holiday.

Dessert
peach cobbler in baking dish with wood spoon.
Peach Cobbler

Peach Cobbler

Peach Cobbler
This is a old fashion recipe that's easy to make. If you want some comfort soul food during summer this peach cobbler is a must have with some vanilla ice cream.

Main Dishes
ramen and eggs in red bowl.
Easy Creamy Ramen

Easy Creamy Ramen

Easy Creamy Ramen
Want ramen but want it creamy? This ramen recipe uses a quick and easy way to hack your ramen. Broth made by Kendra Ross. This creamy technique came from the Duke’s Ramen website. Leave a comment below at let us know what you think!

Side Dishes
turkey gravy in saucepan with ladel
Amazing Turkey Gravy

Amazing Turkey Gravy

 

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Amazing Turkey Gravy
Have to use turkey stock to make this amazing Turkey Gravy can't get any better.
- 6 cups turkey stock
- ½ cup dry white wine
- 1 cup yellow onion. diced about ½ an onion
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 2 Tablespoons butter
- 2 teaspoons marmite
- 1 teaspoon rosemary salt or kosher salt
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 6 Tablespoons butter 1 stick
- Black pepper to taste
1) In a large saucepan over medium heat, melt 2 Tablespoons butter. Add the onion and cook for 5 minutes until softened. Add the garlic and continue to cook for 1 more minute or until fragrant.
2) Add the remaining 6 Tablespoons butter and flour. Cook the roux the 2 minutes or until the raw flour smell dissipates.
3) Add the wine and stock. Bring the gravy to a simmer, stirring occasionally.
4) Add the marmite and seasoning. Continue to cook the gravy until thickened. Keep warm until ready to serve.
 

 

Main Dishes
chili crack in a bowl with cheese and green onions.
Crack Turkey Chili

Crack Turkey Chili

Crack Turkey Chili
Welcome to winter where everything is cold and you want soup or chili. This recipe was adapted from Jenn at Princesspinkygirl.com. Make sure to go to her website. While the recipe sounded great I know that I wanted to add a few touches I learned from my White Chicken Chili. Like and leave a comment below to let me know how you like your chili.

Side Dishes
Potato Salad in a teal bowl
Creole Potatoe Salad

Creole Potatoe Salad

Creole Potato Salad
This is an original recipe I recently developed that includes all the things I think a good potato salad should have. If you are looking for the conventional old fashioned potato salad then this is not it! This recipe packs a punch of flavor that is more loaded baked potato than classic salad. Leave a like and comment below to let me know what you like in your salad.

Main Dishes
Lemon pasta on a plate
Lemon Pasta

Lemon Pasta

Lemon Pasta
Pasta Al Limone or Lemon pasta is a Southern Italy tradition. This easy pasta dish is made with a lemon butter sauce. The results of butter and lemon is a rich lively sauce that makes one perfect light meal.

Baking
Burger buns on a cooling rack
Hamburger Buns

Hamburger Buns

Hamburger Buns
Due to my wife's allergies to tree nuts, we can't find in any store hamburger buns that do not have sesame seed on top or are made on equipment similar to tree -nuts. Everything at the store either says contains sesame seeds, and has been processed on equipment with tree nuts and sesame seeds. We have had to make our own! We didn't create this recipe Guga did please check out his book and support him!

Main Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Vietnamese Pho

Vietnamese Pho

Vietnamese Pho
It's a new tradition we want to do after all the cooking we have done for Christmas and Thanksgiving it's nice to have an easy on-the-stomach meal. We found this recipe online but we changed a few ingredients Vietnamese Pho by Nagi

Main Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Chicken Chili Crack

Chicken Chili Crack

Chicken Chili Crack
Great for the cold winter month with Tortilla chips or Fritos chips! I was inspired by Jennifer Fishkind's Crack Chicken Chili recipe. We love different types of chili and wanted something like the chicken crack.

Baking
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
French Bread (Via Breadmaker)

French Bread (Via Breadmaker)

French Bread (Via Breadmaker)
We all want an easy way to make bread in 1 equipment or let's say you are sick and don't have the energy. This always works if your wrists are not the best using a breadmaker can be a great tool. I got inspired by this French Bread by - Jen.

Main Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Cavetelli Pasta

Cavetelli Pasta

Cavetelli Pasta
We were excited to try this with some chicken dish and wanted to try out hand-in-hand made pasta. We found that this tasted really good and was very easy to make with only 2 ingredients flour and water. This Semolina flour tastes just like pasta it tastes very different from all-purpose flour and doesn't require eggs or milk. No other cooking show is where we got the recipe from so please visit his website for more info.

Main Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Cafe Rio Copycat Sweet Pork Barbacoa

Cafe Rio Copycat Sweet Pork Barbacoa

Cafe Rio Copycat Sweet Pork Barbacoa
This recipe is meant as a copycat sauce version of Cafe Rio’s Pork Barbacoa. The difference is that this recipe is a sauce to be added to chicken, shrimp, beef, and pork without being forced to use it with just pork. The sweetness of the Dr. Pepper melds together perfectly with the complex nature of Mexican vanilla in this easy-to-create sauce. The natural earthy clove creates a mellow spiced flavor that pairs perfectly with any protein. Don’t forget to leave a feel free to send some delicious pics using this sweet sauce!This sweet barbecue sauce is a copycat-inspired recipe from Cafe Rio’s Beef Barbacoa. The sweetness of the Dr. Pepper melds together perfectly together with the complexity of Mexican Cuisine

Side Dishes
Coleslaw in a white bowl with a silver fork
Best Coleslaw

Best Coleslaw

Best Coleslaw
Coleslaw is a great side dish for Pulled Pork or a grilling dish for the summer or spring. We found this recipe by Holly The Best Coleslaw Recipe but we did change a few just to meet our preference we didn't want to get 2 different types of cabbage we just wanted one green one

Main Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Soft Hotdog Buns

Soft Hotdog Buns

Soft Hotdog Buns
Who doesn’t love a hot dog bun for summer or when you’re having a craving. This will be better than store-bought any day. We found this recipe from Deep South Texas – Soft Homemade Hot Dog Buns on YouTube. Leave a like and comment below for more recipe updates!

Side Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Fresh Garden Salsa

Fresh Garden Salsa

Fresh Garden Salsa
Salsa is good on everything and anything especially tomatoes from our garden, can’t get better than that. One of my favorite things to do is mix this salsa with Velveeta cheese and make a delicious queso dip. For this recipe I used heirloom tomatoes from my families farm.

Side Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Perfect Soft Boiled Eggs

Perfect Soft Boiled Eggs

My wife has a perfect ability to cook eggs, she found that 6 minutes in boiling water was too undercooked 8 minutes was too much, and 7 was just the perfect balance. The ice bath is important because you don't want the eggs to be too solid either, so only 3 minutes max is perfect.

Soup
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Creamy White Chili

Creamy White Chili

Best chili for when it gets cold outside! I have been working on this chili recipe for a while, constantly going back and forth between using different ingredients. In the end I landed on this recipe. While it sounds complicated it is actually quite easy to make. This white chili is loosely based on the Creamy White Chili recipe from Taste of Home. You can always find my original experiments here. Leave a like and comment to let me know your thoughts!

Main Dishes
Chicken Cobbler

Chicken Cobbler

I saw Carman Wilken Chicken Cobble recipe on Instagram. This reminded me of the chocolate cobble is the same idea where you layer food the food and do not touch it and you can’t go wrong. Have to say the urge to not mix everything together was really hard not to do. We tried this and it was great comfort food, kinda reminds me of an easier version of a chicken pot pie! Great winter addition to and very easy.

Dessert
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Chocolate Forest Milkshake

Chocolate Forest Milkshake

This simple dessert is the perfect combination of chocolate and cherries. When you want a cake but don’t want to go through the hassle of baking, mix together this milkshake for the perfect frozen treat. Please leave a like and comment below to stay up to date with my latest recipes!

Main Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
White Spinich Chicken Lasagna

White Spinich Chicken Lasagna

It’s winter and you want some comfort food warm cheese with some pasta, can’t go wrong! We used our own handmade lasagna noodles rather than store-bought you can use that if you want. Also if you don’t want to use Ricotta cheese you can use Cottage Cheese instead Once it is baked you can’t taste the difference and its usually cheaper.

SoupUncategorized
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Cheesy Ham and Potato Soup

Cheesy Ham and Potato Soup

Cheesy Ham and Potato Soup
I originally tried a recipe for a Cheesy Ham and Potato Chowder found on Spicysouthernkitchen.com which turned out well. Despite the taste being good there were flaws in the outcome that I decided my second round of soup would be inspired by the original. Follow the recipe listed below and let me know what you think and if the recipe could be improved in any way!

Dessert
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Multi-Chip Cookies

Multi-Chip Cookies

Multi-Chip Cookies
This recipe was created with help of my parents when I was 13 years old (22 years ago). I wanted a large cookie that had allot of stuff in it. We started with a chocolate chip cookie recipe and adapted it as we made more and more of them. My father took these recipes to his office and every time he did I completely sold out which covered the cost of the cookies. I also recall winning a cookie competition with this recipe. The thing that adds flavor to these cookies is the blended oatmeal. I will warn you, these cookies are anything but healthy as you will quickly find out!

Main DishesSide Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
French Onion Soup

French Onion Soup

French Onion Soup
This recipe goes in paring with the Basic Brown Stock recipe. This recipe was adapted from my Professional Cooking book The end result is a delicious soup worth the effort. Because of my wife’s allergies, I used a French baguette which did not impact its flavor.

Main Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Sloppy Joes

Sloppy Joes

Sloppy Joes
After following the recipe I ended up changing quite a few things. What I was left with is without a doubt the best sloppy joes I have ever had! I tripled the recipe and glad I did after sharing some with friends and family I have just about enough for leftover’s.

Main Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Apple Risotto

Apple Risotto

Apple Risotto
This recipe originated from one of our all time favorite anime shows Food Wars. While I have cooked a few recipes from the show this is by far our favorite. If you have the patience of making this dish this recipe is well worth the hard work. This recipe is adapted from Honest Food Talks recipe. I have made some changes according to both the show and classic Risotto. I have provided notes below that I would suggest reading before making this recipe.

Main DishesSide Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Basic Congee

Basic Congee

Basic Congee
This recipe is based on Stacy Isaacs, The Chinese Medicine Cookbook recipe for congee. The first attempt at creating a different congee recipe resulted in a tasteless mixture that over boiled in our Instant Pot. By itself this recipe tastes great but you can add allot of different ingredients to taste.

Soup
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Carrot Parsnip Soup

Carrot Parsnip Soup

Carrot Parsnip Soup
I recently bought my wife a book titled Nourishing Recipes to Heal and Thrive by Stacey Isaacs. This book has many great simple ingredients and this recipe is adapted from that book. I changed a some major things from that recipe as the ideas hit me. The final product is a light text and flavor soup. This soup with pair well with some simple seasoned pan fried chicken breasts. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.

Main DishesSide Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Homestyle Mac and Cheese

Homestyle Mac and Cheese

Homestyle Mac and Cheese
I want to start off by saying that I have tried many mac and cheese recipes. This mac and cheese is without a doubt the best mac and cheese recipe I have tried! The seasonings compliment the cheese without overpowering the flavor. This recipe is adapted from the Cooking with Freddie YouTube video Southern Style Mac and Cheese. Let me know what you do to make your mac and cheese spectacular below!

Main Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Pulled Pork

Pulled Pork

Pulled Pork
This is not my first pork butt however, it is my first time making it on my new Ninja Woodfire Grill. The results are good however not as good as a 12 hour cook using a smoker or snake method on a charcoal grill. I will add more on how to slow cook using a charcoal grill if you do not have access to a smoker. I am not going to lie to you, this is not an exact science. You will need to pay attention to several factors that I have noted below. You can read more about the charcoal snake method below.

Main Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Charcoal Grill Pork

Charcoal Grill Pork

Charcoal Grill Pork
Let me start off my saying that this method is painstaking, so if you are looking for easy you are in the wrong place! While it is far from easy, if an old fashioned charcoal kettle grill is all you have like me, you can still smoke meat you just have to pay attention to temperature far more than a smoker. Watch one of my favorite YouTuber’s video on how to cook pork! This process starts at 4am, so grab an extra large coffee and settle in for a long cook!

Main Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
White Ramen with Corn

White Ramen with Corn

White Ramen with Corn
Something easy and simple for when you want some ramen you can make it fancy or you can make it easy. I will post a recipe for fancy ramen at some point on this blog so keep posted for more!

Side Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Beer Cheese Sauce

Beer Cheese Sauce

Beer Cheese Sauce
I have always excelled at making sauces and found this beer cheese sauce is good with anything but really good with soft pretzels homemade, or store-bought doesn’t matter. This can also be added to pasta as a sauce too.

Main Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Smash Burgers

Smash Burgers

Smash Burgers
Burgers are the best thing for summer cooking along with anything grilled. Eat and enjoy! The credit of this recipe goes to Guga Foods.

Main Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Breakfast Pizza

Breakfast Pizza

Now you can make a homemade alfredo sauce or a jar whatever you want to do is easy. We have also made it with our own handmade dough also very good! Make it your own, if you want to add mushrooms do so, if you want green onions do it. Add whatever you want.

Main Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Easy Calzones

Easy Calzones

We have tried this so many ways and it gets better with time. Whatever sauce or ingredients you use always makes a good calzone its like a pizza anything and everything is good on it!
 

Main Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Easy Blackened Chicken Alfredo

Easy Blackened Chicken Alfredo

This chicken alfredo recipe is so simple and delicious you wont believe you have not tried it before! The original blackening seasoning is inspired by one of my all time favorite sites Chili Pepper Madness. Making your own alfredo sauce is simple and beats store bought. If you enjoy the taste of store bought alfredo sauce or don’t have time to make your own, Rao’s Roasted Garlic Alfredo Sauce is my personal favorite. You can find a recipe for classic blackened seasoning here. I have offered ways of making it less spicy if like my wife you have less spice tolerance. If making your own blackened season is not your thing no worries! You can use any premade blackened seasoning. One of my favorite blackened seasonings can be found here.

Side Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Green Chili

Green Chili

This recipe is adapted from Spending with Pennies website for Green Chili Recipe. This recipe is amazing on breakfast burritos, eggs, or just by itself! This recipe takes a while to cook but in the end it is worth the wait. This recipe makes a medium spiciness chili (see notes). Let me know your thoughts using the comments below!

Side Dishes
Ti Malice Hot Sauce

Ti Malice Hot Sauce

This recipe was adapted from one of my favorite YouTube channels called Chili Pepper Madness from his Ti-Malice hot sauce, make sure to go to his channel to show him some love. For this recipe I used a bit more acidity than his to preserve in a can for shelf stable hot sauce. The result is sharp, slight fruity and super fiery! The original recipe uses piment bouc peppers common in Haitian culture foods but for this recipe you can just use habaneros. My only regret is that the use of lime while good is not the same flavor as Sour Oranges used in the historic version of this sauce

Main Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Short Rib Stuffed Shells

Short Rib Stuffed Shells

I honestly can’t take full credit for this recipe. This recipe comes from Guga Foods channel, be sure to go to his channel and show him some appreciation. This recipe is one of the most amazing I have made so far the ribs covered in a red wine reduction sauce is to die for! I will warn you this recipe is way more involved than you might think. I made the mistake of making spicy pickles while I was smoking the ribs all at 7:00 at night, the result was me barely being able to stand half way through cooking it and admittedly I don’t actually remember making the sauce. When I do this recipe again I won’t be making the mistake of overworking myself. See my notes for comments about this recipe. Leave a comment below and let me know how this turns out for you!
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Side Dishes
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Fresh Garde Salsa

Fresh Garde Salsa

Salsa is good on everything and anything especially tomatoes from our garden, can’t get better than that. One of my favorite things to do is mix this salsa with Velveeta cheese and make a delicious queso dip. For this recipe I used heirloom tomatoes from my families farm.

Dessert
baked beans in cast iron skillet with wooden spoon
Golden Delight Bars

Golden Delight Bars

For a nut free version of this recipe you can omit the nuts. for the shortening this recipe uses Crisco vegetable shortening. For other recipes I have used Crisco butter flavor shortening but I have not tried it for this recipe.

Soup
Brown stock in stock pot.
Basic Brown Stock

Basic Brown Stock

This basic brown stock (a.k.a beef broth) is an amazing foundation for several soups and sauces. If you have the time to make this amazing stock you will be left with something that can be frozen and used in several recipes!

BakingDessert
Multi-chip Cookies

Multi-chip Cookies

Who doesn't love a perfect gooey cookie with a nice big glass of milk? These perfect multi chip cookies are big, sweet, and delicious! You can follow the recipe or include whatever is in your cabinet!

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