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dinner

  • My Mom’s Brown Sugar BBQ Beef Sandwiches

    Earlier this year, we posted a recipe based on my mother’s meat loaf with a little backstory on how it held a special place on the family’s short list of favorite meals.…

  • Pozole Rojo Tacos

    The first time we tried to make pozole rojo, we became way too distracted during the process, and allowed the soup to simmer almost all of its liquid away.  All that time,…

  • Gloomy Day Chicken & Speck Stew

    This is what we would call a gloomy day dish.  The past few have been nothing but grey skies with clouds threatening to rain throughout so we decided to heed their…

  • Hearty Beef & Mushroom Pot Pies

    Winter is finally here, and although it’s not as cold down here in Texas, we just spent a long weekend in Chicago where we became all too familiar with its extremes. …

  • Meat Loaf with Sweet & Spicy Red Wine Glaze

    My mother is a natural cook, and one that takes great pride in cooking for her family.  With an old school stack of note card boxes next to the stove top, each…

  • Short Rib Stew with Gruyere Dumplings

    One of the great pleasures of winter, the holidays, and the cold that sets in around this time of year, is the chilly days spent in the kitchen keeping warm and cooking…

  • New Home, New Start – Bucatini Carbonara

    Hi everybody! So we took a long hiatus from blogging here during this past year. Our busy schedules kept us away, but probably more than anything our old house was impeding…