Some dishes don’t need much explanation! This is one of those recipes~~with some leftover grilled chicken breasts, I decided to cut them into chunks, open a few cans of cannellini beans, then start tossing in good fresh tomatoes, diced poblanos and lotsa smoked paprika~~what I got was a deliciously rich and hearty shhhhoup that ate like a stew! Fixed a ... Read More »
You just can’t take the Southern West Virginia out of me even though I’ve been gone from there for over 40 years~~what a glorious place to grow up! As a kid, the mountain was our playground…we didn’t have much, but we had huge and prolific imaginations, and that imagination has transcended into every part of my life. I really don’t ... Read More »
What do you do when you open one too many cans of beans when you’re making chili? Well, in this case, I decided to make a bean dip, which also can be a pretty wicked sandwich spread! If you can’t find the tri-blend canned beans, then use whatever bean(s) make you happy. I’m not sure, but I’m thinking that this ... Read More »
I made some really wickedly good Anasazi beans, and had about 4 cups left over~~this became the reason for this chili! There was the ham hock, too, that the beans had been cooked in, so I shredded the meat off the bone and threw it in this chili. Not to worry if you don’t have a ham hock, the ... Read More »
Sometimes I just have a hankerin’ for something different for breakfast, and since I had these beautiful bunches of fresh kale and chard staring me in the face, plus a bag of fresh cut broccoli, I decided why wait to use this for a lunch or dinner…why not breakfast! Nothing seasons these greens better than bacon drippings, plus the crunch of ... Read More »
How do I even begin to explain my love affair with beans. I have no idea when or where it started…most probably when I was a young girl growing up in the coalfields of Southern West Virginia eating a lot of pintos because they were cheap, filling, and healthy…some kids would have turned up their nose as an adult, my ... Read More »
I’m in love with spices~~ I mean to the point that I think I lived another life sometime thousands of years ago, and I roamed the Grand Bazaaar in Istanbul collecting spices! Maybe I traveled with Marco Polo. Maybe I was a spice dealer. I have no idea, but I do know that the Middle Eastern, Indian, Moroccan, Asian and world ... Read More »
If you search my recipes, you’ll find quite a few recipes for beans~~yes, I’m a ‘bean queen’~~reckon it’s them thar West Virginia hills I grew up in where beans were a part of our eats several times a week. Why wouldn’t they be? They’re healthy, nutritious, great roughage, protein, low fat, low glycemic…all those things that are good for you! Plus, ... Read More »
Let your palate begin the journey as you travel the “Spice Route” with an array of Raas El Hanoot seasonings once considered as valuable as gold and silver. There is no one word to describe this “Marco Polo Middle Eastern Spice Chili.” As you savor the first chunky spoonful, is it warm, sweet, earthy, musky, pungent, hot, spicy clean, fruity, ... Read More »
Food does crazy things to me! I don’t think food is just food. Food is something that gives me a chance to experience the world right at my own table. I’ve done a little traveling in my lifetime, and one of the most intriguing countries I’ve visited is Russia. I’ve been there three times with the first being in the ... Read More »
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