Gourmet Food on a Budget — Ever Forward, Ever Flavorful
These naturally colored Easter eggs are made with onion skins and cranberry black tea for beautiful marbled shells. Wrapping the eggs in cheesecloth holds the onion skins in place, while the Instant Pot cooks them perfectly in just a few minutes. A light coating of neutral oil brings out the color and shine. Once admired, the eggs are perfect for deviled eggs, egg salad, or sandwiches.
Blueberry Muffin Breakfast Cake with a crumb topping is a celebration of Spring. Fresh blueberries pop in your mouth and make your smile.
Make a Snake and Shamrock Pie as a new tradition on St. Patrick’s Day. It’s a fruit-filled pie and has no snakes.
Our Catholic Seder menu is a way for those wishing to share a meal with friends and honor the Passover meal to do so. There are also some fun craft projects.
These Air Fryer Chicken Thighs Stuffed with Pesto are simple for an everyday dinner or make an excellent dinner party dish.
I don’t know why I wait for Easter to make a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. I think it just seems appropriate for the rabbits of Easter to have a carrot cake treat. This is a really rich cake, not something for every day.
This is not something for every day. Green tomatoes are wonderful in the spring before the beautiful red tomatoes are ripe – that is if you can keep from eating them!
These Stuffed Chicken thighs are easy to make and delicious. They are also healthy made with yogurt and grilled.
When I was a little girl, my mother had the entire collection of The Woman’s Day Encyclopedia of Cooking, and there was a recipe in for Hungarian Porkchops, which I have been making for many years. Today, I decided to change the recipe a bit and came up with Pork Chops Paprikash.
In Glendale, California, which has a large Armenian population, we have Red Pepper Sauce. It’s basically paprika peppers, and I use it quite often, in sauces, eggs, and other dishes. There are many brands and you can probably find it in ethnic European stores. I highly recommend it.
Paprikash dishes call for sour cream. I have probably talked about this before, and I will say it again. When you buy sour cream, please only get the kind that has cultured cream. The other stuff has gelatin and other ingredients as fillers, and they just are not real sour cream. The Alta Dena brand has a wonderful saying on the top of the tub, “Those cravings you feel are totally natural”. I love that because it’s true – there is nothing in that sour cream except cultured cream, the way sour cream should be.
