Ratatouille
Ratatouille is one of those country dishes that, despite its simple ingredients and appearance, is surprisingly complex to produce well. If you're not careful it can easily turn in...
Five Spice Powder
If you’ve eaten Asian food there’s a good chance you’ve had 5 spice powder (wǔxiāng fěn, 五香粉, Pong Palo). Especially if you’ve had dishes with fatty meats, braised...
Roasted Bell Peppers and Garlic In Olive Oil (Roasted Bell Peppers and Garlic Confit)
Growing up, I spent a good bit of my early years living on a farm just outside Crawfordville, Fla. The majority of the food we grew was for our personal use. We'd grow the normal s...
Chinese Black Bean Ribs
I LOVE DIM SUM (點心, 点心, diǎnxīn, dímsām)! I love it so much in fact that over the years I've learned to make quite a few of my favorite dim sum dishes, and make them pr...
Vegan Shepherd’s Pie
When I was growing up there wasn’t really ‘vegan’ or ‘vegetarian’ food in the South. That was only for those “hippies in California” or &#...
Asian Inspired Stuffed Napa Cabbage Rolls
My family loves Asian food, and one of our favorites is Chinese-inspired egg rolls. Pork, chicken, or shrimp, yes please! More times than I can count, I'd come home and my mom and ...
Dehydrated Lemon – A Secret Flavor Weapon
Growing up, we didn’t eat a lot of fresh lemons in our day-to-day lives. I don’t mean that we never had lemons. We had loads of lemon-flavored things like candy, cakes,...
Thai Inspired Chicken Sausage
Being from the south, sausage is a main stay in most homes. When I was growing up the majority of sausage was pork (or deer) based and contains a good bit of sage, fennel and often...
Asian Inspired Vegetable Soup
I often hear people say our bodies are a temple… But in this fast paced world of go, go, go, my temple starts feeling a bit more like 6 Flags on 4th of July weekend than a ho...
Braised Short Ribs In Red Wine Gravy
Lately I’ve been pretty busy due to the death of a coworker and sorting out some medical issues. So I’ve not had a ton of time to create and post new recipes on the sit...