Chipotle Burrito Bowl Recipe I finally pulled myself out of a 3 week flu stupor to prepare a Mexican food dinner with a Chipotle burrito bowl recipe. Yes, around this home we eat a lot of Mexican, Italian, and Middle Eastern inspired dishes. Every once and a while we will toss in a curry or two to break up the mundane. What can I say? We are ...
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Chipotle Corn Salsa Recipe
Click here to down for FREE copycat recipe cookbooks to your Kindle. (and some are really cheap hard copy too!) For me, any recipe with roasted corn is a hit! So this one is a win win because it has roasted corn AND it is incredibly easy to make. Wait... trifecta as it is very tasty to eat! This was one of the dishes in my Chipotle Burrito ...
Chipotle Black Bean Recipe
Chipotle Black Bean Recipe Bob makes some amazing black beans and after looking at their website, looks like they took his recipe! LOL This black bean recipe is great wrapped inside a tortilla, as a side dish, or on a salad. This is another recipe I used for our Chipotle Burrito Bowl copycat recipe for dinner the other night - use these ...
Cilantro Lime Rice
Click here to down for FREE copycat recipe cookbooks to your Kindle. (and some are really cheap hard copy too!) The first recipe in our Chipotle Burrito Bowl Recipe series is cilantro lime rice. Often seen on menus such as Chipotle or Cafe Rio, it's popular to add as the base of a salad or inside a tortilla with your favorite items. Chipotle ...
Homemade Mascarpone Cheese
Homemade Mascarpone My newest obsession is making homemade cheese and mascarpone is on my cooking bucket list. {Especially since I want to use it for a cheesecake!} Mascarpone is milky-white in color and is easy to spread. It is used in various Lombardy dishes, and is considered a speciality in the region. It is one of the main ingredients in the ...
Compound Butter {aka Maitre d’Hotel Butter}
Compound Butter Our freezer has your normal items and then I have a small section for flavored butters. I love making flavored butters and normally have a few in the freezer ready to go. Chipotle lime butter, rosemary butter, basil butter, and many others will be in a baggie in my freezer ready to take out when needed. I thought I was original ...
Vodka Pie Crust Recipe
Vodka Pie Crust Recently a few of our local grocery stores had an amazing sale on select spirits. Shoppers hit the stores to stock their shelves with wine, rum, Irish cream, and vodka. Personally, I have been buying the vodka to use for cooking since it was such an awesome price. {Okay... okay... confession time --- I do like a martini every ...
Homemade Boursin Cheese
Homemade Boursin Cheese I love Boursin cheese but man is it some expensive stuff! When I lived overseas in Turkey I couldn't get it all the time so I tried my hand at making my own to serve at dinner parties {and just to snack on for myself}. A friend gave me her recipe that I used to use and it's long gone. Twenty years later I am still ...
Crock Pot Green Bean Casserole
Crock Pot Green Bean Casserole When your oven is being used by your holiday ham, turkey and tasty sides dishes ---- let your slow cooker do the work for you to make this green bean casserole! For some reason I own two of them and not sure why but when the holidays roll around, I am very grateful they are in my cabinet! Click here to read ...
Deep Fried Green Beans
Deep Fried Green Beans This deep friend green bean recipe uses several of my FAVORITE ingredients such as panko bread crumbs, chipotle and Tony Chachere's seasoning. I don't like green beans and never really have but this is the only way that I will eat them {if you could hear me talking you could hear the deep south in my voice as I talk about ...
Green Beans and Potatoes
Green Beans and Potatoes Alex loves green beans and potatoes and mushrooms. These ingredients together make an awesome dish for any night of the week or to serve for the holidays. Green beans and potatoes are a great price right now and I was able to get the green beans for $.89 a pound and the red potatoes for $.25 a pound. SCORE! These prices ...
How to Make Mozzarella Cheese
How to Make Mozzarella Cheese First I have to admit my first stab at homemade mozzarella cheese was a fail but I know why. I thought I was using milk that was not ultra-pasteurized and upon further inspection, I see that it was not. This could be the reason my cheese was grainy on the outside and didn't want to play well when I was working with ...