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,...
Sous Vide Crispy Chicken With Spicy Coconut Sauce
Fun fact, I created this recipe while trying to reduce food waste and long work hours. (I hate throwing away money!) I work full-time as a PHP/Python developer for a company in Las...
Braised Beef and Butternut Squash Curry – Multi-Cooker
I love curry! They’re amazingly easy to make, packed full of flavor and a great way to please a crowd in a hurry! Truth be told I love curry so much I’ve spent days res...
Roasted Eggplant (Aubergine) Vegan Curry
Growing up in rural North Florida in the 1980s no one we knew ate curry and vegetables always had meat, or meat byproduct (rendered pork fat, butter or stock), in them. So you coul...
Butternut Squash Soup With Coconut Milk
Growing up butternut squash wasn’t something we ate. Looking back I think it was a mix of lack of knowledge about that winter squash, cost and lack of time. The same goes for...