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Breakfast In The Medieval Town of Tabor, South Bohemia
I love breakfast. Those of you who stop by here know this. My love for breakfast has contrasts though, from the late night greasy diner, to the spoiled hotel breakfast buffet. When people ask me what I miss about America … Continue reading
Posted in Appetizers & Snacks, Bacon, Baked Goods, Bohemia, Bread & Grains, Breakfast, Breakfast Sandwich, Cheese, Coffee, Cooking, Cuisine, Czech Republic, Eating, Eggs, Food, Ham, Hotel Nautilus, Meat, Recipes, Restaurants, Rolls, Sandwiches, Sausage Links, Scrambled Eggs, Tabor, Toast, Travel
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Big Mac or Fresh Bread and a Cheese Plate?
Who does not love cheese. To me the perfect desert is a glass of red wine and a cheese plate. When I lived in New York City my favorite thing to do on my day off was to go to the … Continue reading
Posted in American Cheese, Appetizers & Snacks, Baked Goods, Balkan Cheese, Bleu Cheese, Bread & Grains, Breakfast, Buffalo Mozzarella, Burgers, Cheddar Cheese, Cheese, Chesseburger, Cooking, Cream Cheese, Cuisine, Dessert, Dinner, Eating, Ementhaler Cheese, Feta, Food, Gorgonzola, Gruyère, Jalapeno Cheese, Manchango Cheese, Mozzarella, Parmesean, Pecorino Romano, Processed Cheddar, Provolone, Quotes, Recipes, Ricotta Cheese, Romano Cheese, Swiss Cheese, Whited Cheddar Cheese
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A Three Egg Fromelette w/ Sausage, Sun Dried Tomatoes, & Parmesean
So what do you do when you dream of having a nice greedy three egg omelette for breakfast on a Saturday morning, one for you and one for your wife, or visa versa, and you only have three eggs? You … Continue reading
Posted in Basil, Breakfast, Butter, Cheese, Cooking, Cuisine, Eating, Eggs, Food, Frittata, Fromelette, Garlic, Herbs & Spices, Leeks, Meat, Omelette, Onions, Parmesean, Recipes, Sausage Links, Sun Dried Tomatoes, Swiss Cheese, Turkey, Vegetables
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Bubble and Squeak (via Things we make)
Here is a little something I found that was quite unusual over at “Things We Make.” When I think of getting rid of left overs I always think frittata, but this person thinks “Bubble and squeak.” It seems like a … Continue reading
Chicken Wings With Spicy Basque Ketchup (via Trissalicious)
Here is an adapted recipe from “Trissalicious.” I have had some good opportunity to try some great fresh made ketchup and relishes in Europe that really would blow you away. So when I came across this little number I had … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Cuisine, Eating, Food, Recipes
Tagged basque cuisine, chicken, chicken wings, food, gerard hirigoyen, Ketchup, pinxtos, piperade, recipes, spanish, spanish cuisine, tapas
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Sunday Photos…Vintage Canning Jars (via Not Dabbling In Normal)
Here is an interesting post about canning jars with some great photos to boot. Check them out. “To ‘put by’ is an old deep-country way of saying to ‘save something you don’t have to use now, against the time when … Continue reading
Posted in Canning Jars, Cooking, Cuisine, Dinner, Eating, Food, Photography, Recipes
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Pork, Red Wine, and Wild Mushroom Bolognese
Ingredients: 1/2 cup of chicken stock 1/2 cup of red wine 50 g of dried wild mushrooms 8 cloves of garlic chopped 2 small cans of whole peeled tomatoes with juice 1lb of spaghetti 4 tbl of butter 1 tsp … Continue reading
Posted in Basil, Black Pepper, Boletus, Butter, Button Mushrooms, Cheese, Chicken Stock, Cooking, Cuisine, Dinner, Eating, Food, Garlic, Herbs & Spices, Italian, Leeks, Meat, Mushrooms, Onions, Parmesean, Pasta, Plum Tomatoes, Pork, Pork Cutlets, Recipes, Red Pepper Flakes, Red Sauce, Red Wine, Sauces & Marinades, Sausage Links, Spaghetti, Stock, Tomatoes, Vegetables, Whole-Peeled-Tomatoes, Wild Mushroom Sauce, Wild Mushrooms, Wine
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Chicken & Carmelized Onion Sandwich W/ Gruyère & Sicilian Pesto
Tired of ham and cheese sandwiches? This will light your pants on fire and have you begging for another one……..please Sir! It’s the second thing I do that my wife begs for, and I’m not telling you what the … Continue reading
Posted in Bread & Grains, Butter, Chicken, Chicken Broth, Cooking, Cuisine, Dinner, Eating, Food, Italian, Italian Cuisine, Meat, Onions, Recipes, Rhye Bread, Sandwiches, Sicilian Pesto, Spreads, Stock, Vegetables, Yellow Onions
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Broken Omelette
There is an old saying that goes something like this; “Take comfort in knowing that anyone who can make an omelette most likely can do nothing else.” Author Unknown (I just Forget) I do not recall the author at this … Continue reading
Posted in Basil, Breakfast, Butter, Cheese, Cooking, Cuisine, Eating, Eggs, Ementhaler Cheese, English Bacon, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Food, Garlic, Herbs & Spices, Kernal Corn, Leeks, Meat, Olive Oil, Omelette, Onions, Parmesean, Recipes, Scallions, Vegetables, Yellow Onions
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Four Cheese Florentine Pasta With Chicken
Looking for a pasta with a cheese sauce but do not want it smothered in cheese. Then this is the perfect plate for you. There is no way for me to say this is a light dish, but it certainly … Continue reading
Posted in Baby Spinach, Basil, Cheese, Chicken, Chicken Stock, Cooking, Cuisine, Dinner, Eating, Ementhaler Cheese, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Food, Garlic, Gorgonzola, Herbs & Spices, Italian, Meat, Olive Oil, Onions, Parmesean, Pasta, Pecorino Romano, Recipes, Sauces & Marinades, Spaghetti, Stock, Vegetables
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Caprese Pasta With Bacon and Onion
Saw a nice pasta dish over at “Better When Broken,” that I just had to try, and of course would have to modify. The modification you ask? Well by taking the traditional Caprese salad ingredients of this dish and … Continue reading
Posted in Bacon, Basil, Buffalo Mozzarella, Cherry Tomatoes, Chicken Stock, Cooking, Cuisine, Dinner, Eating, Ementhaler Cheese, English Bacon, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Food, Garlic, Herbs & Spices, Italian, Italian Cuisine, Italy, Meat, Olive Oil, Onions, Pasta, Penne, Recipes, Vegetables
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Osso Buco (via Rufus’ Food and Spirits Guide)
Lately, peasant food is all the rage. Dishes that used to be inexpensive and called for ingredients most people would not use have begun to cost more than a steak. Consider Osso Buco. My wife wanted me to make the … Continue reading
Moroccan Dreams, Chicken Tagine (via Kitchen Bitch)
I’ve been dreaming about going to Morocco for a few years now, but then again, I dream about traveling everywhere. But there’s something about the North African nation of Morocco that keeps it coming back to my daydreams. Maybe it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged african-food, casablanca, chicken, chicken-tagine, chicken-with-dried-fruit, emile-henry, entrees, golden-raisins, healthy, low-and-slow-cooking, moroccan-dreams, morocco-food, north-african-chicken-tagine, olives, one-pot-dinners, quick-preserved-lemons, recipes, tagine-vessel, travel
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Ham, Egg, & Cheese Stuffed Roll
Some of you may recall my other stuffed roll egg dish, ” Bacon and Eggs In A Roll,” Where I stuff rolls with bacon and eggs pictured here to the right. Quite delicious I might add. So my wife loves … Continue reading
Posted in Baked Goods, Basil, Bread & Grains, Breakfast, Breakfast Sandwich, Cheese, Cooking, Cuisine, Eating, Eggs, Ementhaler Cheese, Food, Ham, Herbs & Spices, Meat, Recipes, Rolls
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shrimp scampi (via the ragamuffin diaries)
I got to cook dinner for two wonderful mothers today, and then I got to go spend time with my wonderful Grandma. Quite nice. (I also ate pasta for like the first time in quite a few months….. and … Continue reading
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Tagged entrees, fish-seafood, food, Pasta, recipes, seafood, shrimp
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