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Pasta with Brie and Tomatoes

Aug27

This is my favorite summer recipe EVER. It is adapted from the Silver Palate Cookbook — that first one that everyone bought back in the 1980’s when this wonderful series of cookbooks first appeared. If yours is like mine, the binding is cracked and the pages are falling out and you can’t get a new one because you have all these notes and memories marked on the pages, and sentimental splotches of meals gone by staining the pages…and I STILL haven’t made everything I want to make out of this classic cookbook.

But I have made this one, probably 50 times over the years, because it is simple and gorgeous and tastes like heaven on a summertime plate. Let’s make it!

Cast Iron Skillet Pizza

Aug6

Settle in with me for a while as I tell you about the joy that is cast iron skillet pizza. I’m all for ordering good old take-out pizza for much of the year, but when it comes to summertime and we find ourselves surrounded by a cornucopia of fresh tomatoes and herbs and other delicious local veggies, I pull out my trusty cast iron skillet and with just a little more effort than it takes to call in a delivery order we have a cheesy, melty pan full of pizza deliciousness.

So if you want to put your own skillet to work making an explosion of fresh summer veggie pizza deliciousness, come along with me and let’s make it!

Pan-Seared Tuna Steaks with Tomato Spinach Sauce

Aug3

Here’s the thing with this recipe for pan-seared tuna steaks with tomato spinach sauce. It’s one of those times where the finished dish is so scrumptious, but no matter how many times I took its picture while I was writing and testing the recipe, it just didn’t take a pretty picture. And so welcome to the age-old food blogger conundrum: you want to share this deliciousness, BUT THE PICTURE IS MAKING YOU CRAZY.

And so after agonizing for a while, I decided you guys needed the deliciousness, and that you would forgive me on the less than photogenic-ness. If you want to see some prettier recipes, please click here and here and here. In the meantime, let’s make it!

Skillet Tamale Pie

May4

This is a recipe for all of you who love tamales (raises hand!) but don’t have the patience to hunt down masa flour and corn husks to make the real deal. Which by the way you should absolutely do at least once in your life, and this recipe from Bon Appetit will tell you everything you need to know about that, but when you get a tamale craving on a busy Thursday, I highly recommend this recipe for skillet tamale pie. It’s got all the spicy pork and corn flavor, but yep, all in one skillet. And on a busy Thursday night, that is the next best thing for all you tamale-lovers out there…let’s make it!

Frying Pan Lasagna

Jan22

This recipe for frying pan lasagna is just further proof of 1) my undying love for my cast iron frying pan and 2) my undying search for any way to get out of the complicated production that is involved in making traditional lasagna. This version is chock full of pasta and cheese and beef and yes, a little spinach for good luck. It’s easy and scrumptious and requires only one frying pan and exactly zero struggling with floppy wet lasagna noodles. So if you, like me, are a lover of lazy lasagna recipes, let’s make it!

Migas!

Dec29

Before I start my love-fest about this recipe for migas, let me state for the record that this is an Irish girl trying her hand at this Tex-Mex dish….and now that I have my disclaimer out of the way, let me also say that this is a quick and out of your mind delicious conglomeration of scrambled eggs with pieces of crispy fried tortillas, sweet onion, tomatoes and cheese, topped with a squeeze of lime juice.

I KNOW. After a couple of weeks of peppermint and chocolate everything accompanied by gallons of wine and eggnog, I not only want migas, I need ’em. And happily for me and for you, we can have ’em in 15 minutes from start to finish. Let’s make them!

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