Breakfast for dinner? Yes, please. After a week away from home, and hours on the road, I was ready to find a simple meal to prepare for dinner on Sunday night. And who doesn’t like to have breakfast for dinner? It feels like you’re breaking a rule. Let me tell you, this recipe for strata…
Category: Food & Drink
the peach fritters at yana’s
While others on the island were still sleeping, or jogging, or cycling, Greg and I were headed to nearby Swansboro for a visit with our local breakfast destiny. A few days back when we meandering around Swansboro we read a tip about the fritters at Yana’s Restaurant. Evidently, they were not to be missed. And…
smores on a stick
Tonight’s the giant family dessert get-together at the beach. We’ll all converge on Aunt Sally and Uncle Ike’s big pink beach house. Without all of my cooking tools, I was having a difficult time trying to decide what to bring. Greg suggested my famous Smores on a Stick. It was the perfect choice. The only…
southwestern chicken wraps
I’m up to lucky issue #7 in my Everyday Food Challenge. And this just happens to be the wonderful Thanksgiving edition of the magazine. Think that might create a problem in picking a dish to make in the middle of a 90 degree summer in northeast Ohio? Think again. The Southwestern Chicken Wraps recipe screams…
a difficult s(tart) to this week’s challenge
Welcome back to my Everyday Food Challenge. This week I bring you two recipes and a tale of a shopping struggle. So, after going back through issue #6, I had decided I’d definitely be making the Lemon Ricotta Tart. I mean come on, lemon and cheese. Um, yes please. The problem, I didn’t own a…
butterscotch bark (the short and sweet post)
Heat wave. It’s been entirely too hot this week to even think about firing up both the oven and stove for a proper meal. Yet I still had my Everyday Food Challenge to complete for the week. I went back through issue #5 looking for something that wouldn’t require a great deal of work (that’s…
pesto – three ways
Happy Independence Day. While many of you have been seeing red, white and blue this weekend, all I’ve been seeing is green. After making two jars of pesto on Friday, I’ve been busy finding ways to incorporate it into our meals. The following are the three ways I’ve used the pesto so far. All very…
hello summer, hello basil. i think i love you.
As I mentioned in my post yesterday. There has been pesto making at the Sterling-Derr homestead. As I was watering the herbs, veggies and flowers, I noticed an evil pesky beetle dining on one of my basil leaves. I guess I can’t fault the little guy, he knows a good thing. But I was going…
five senses friday #9
It was a short work week for me, but still a very full week none the less. Here are the highlights in just five senses. seeing: red, white and blue everywhere. i bought these little flags yesterday. and yes, i’m the kind of guy that irons out the creases before putting them out. tasting: freshly…
grilled portobello quesadillas
My Everyday Food Challenge continued today. It was time to cook from issue #4 from July/August 2003. And let me just say thank you, from the bottom of my very happy stomach, for voting for the Grilled Portobello Quesadilla. It’s not something that I would normally cook, and it was an absolutely gorgeous evening to…
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