This colorful and delicious green beans and cherry tomatoes salad was inspired by Food Network’s Giada De Laurentiis green beans salad recipe. While she also had wax beans (yellow) for an added color, I only used green beans and cherry tomatoes to keep it simple for the kids. The dressing is not hard to make either. Green Beans & Cherry Tomatoes Salad Print Recipe type: Side Dishes Author: Feistycook Serves: 5 INGREDIENTS a bundle of green beans a pack of red cherry tomatoes water for boiling 1/2 cup red wine ... Read More

Instead of going with basic roast pork, I decided to butterfly the pork roast then stuffed it with a filling of sauteed celery and mushrooms. I'm glad I did. Pork Roast Stuffed W/ Mushrooms & Celery Print Recipe type: Dinner Author: Feistycook Serves: 5 INGREDIENTS about 3 pounds pork roast 2 tbsp of olive oil sprinkle of garlic powder sprinkle of black pepper sprinkle of paprika sprinkle of Italian seasoning 1 small onion 3 sprigs of celery, chopped 5-6 button mushrooms, chopped sprinkle of dried basil sprinkle of dried oregano salt and pepper INSTRUCTIONS Preheat oven to 365° In a pan, ... Read More

I dream about my dream kitchen as much as I dream about my dream house and shoes. I gotta have my large kitchen someday. The funny thing is, for me to have my dream kitchen, I'll probably do a kitchen remodeling to the kitchen of my dream house. Isn't that how it always works when you're buying an already built house? It's a different story of course if you build your house from the ground up. I can be very ... Read More

Those Lawry's marinades are not just good for marinating meats, yah know. They're nice sauces to toss into sauteed dishes like this chicken wings with asparagus. This is especially quite easy to whip up on busy days or when you're only cooking something for yourself for lunch or dinner. Lemon Pepper Chicken Wings & Asparagus Print Author: Feistycook Serves: 2 INGREDIENTS 10-12 pcs of chicken wings 1 cup of Lawry's Lemon Pepper marinade 1 cup of water 8 pieces of asparagus, cut in half sprinkle of salt and pepper 2 medium ... Read More

_qoptions={qacct:'p-f4QCdDOj56EYA'}; Have you seen that Trop50 commercial with Jane Krakowski? She looks great and I really like her dress. It sure makes me want to drink a whole bottle of Trop50 right about now which by the way has a line juice beverages, with goodness of fruit juice containing 50 percent less sugar and calories, and no artificial sweeteners. I also want to try the raspberry lemonade, pomegranate blueberry, and pineapple mango variants. They just look really good. _qoptions={qacct:'p-f4QCdDOj56EYA'}; _qoptions={qacct:'p-f4QCdDOj56EYA'};_qoptions={qacct:'p-f4QCdDOj56EYA'}; Anyhooo, Tropicana ... Read More

I got the recipe for white chicken chili from my dear Mother-In-Law. she even wrote it in a pretty index card with pears and cherries on it. So I made it on Saturday. I figured it was time to take out the crock-pot again. The recipe calls for already cooked roast chicken but I didn't have that. MIL said those rotisserie chicken from grocery stores would be fine too. Or just boil some chicken and just pull the meat apart to ... Read More

My dear mother-in-law gave me 2 bottles of Brooks House Of BBQ sauces and marinades when we visited them for the Christmas holidays last month. I used the chicken sauce to marinate 3 chicken quarters the other night. I baked the chicken in the oven then served them with peas and butter-herb potatoes. You can grill the marinated chicken too as well but since it's winter season and it's kinda frigid outside, baking was a much better option. The chicken ... Read More

To go along with the dumplings I made for dinner a couple of nights ago, I decided to make fritters out of a block of tofu and 2 zucchinis. I used the batter from the sesame chicken to continue the Asian theme I was going for. You could serve these as either appetizers, snacks, or lunch. Or dinner with dumplings as well. Tofu & Zucchini Fritters Print Recipe type: Appetizers, Lunch, Dinner Author: Feistycook INGREDIENTS 1 cup of flour 1 egg, beaten 1/2 cup of cornstarch 3/4 cup of ... Read More