Cheesy Turkey Quesadillas with Cranberry Salsa
It is all about options… and saving time, and saving money, and having delicious food with optimal nutrition… with options. What could be more simple, or option-friendly, than quesadillas? Tortillas Oh how we love to wrap our foods! You can wrap up just about everything but soup. Wraps not only make our food easy to […]
Grilled Goat Cheese and Cranberry Sammy
Butter – bread – tangy cheese – sweet cranberries – tangy cheese – bread – butter. – Need I say more? I am not really sure if this is lunch or a constructed cheese plate. But YUM! Tangy and sweet notes all blended, melting, and gooey between the buttery crunch of grilled toast… this is […]
Turkey Gravy with Pan Drippings
If you have roasted your own spatchcock, or butterfly, turkey, then you have likely also used the backbone to create a beautiful broth. Now it will be a piece of cake to turn that broth into gravy. Turkey gravy is special. It is comforting, delicious, and has the power to save dry turkey meat. 🙂 […]
Raw Fresh Cranberry Salsa
When these little treasures hit the market, it is happy time. Fresh cranberries don’t need much attention to be delicious, especially if you like your food raw. Hmmm I wonder what other raw foods would be good with this… Something with pistachios? I see related posts in the future. This bowl is likely to go […]
Tender Roasted Turkey in Half the Time
How do you roast a whole turkey and get tender, savory, tasty results? Do you brine, or no brine? Stuffing or dressing? Yes, this is controversial, but if you are reading this post right now, you are probably the kind of person who looks controversy in the face and laughs! You are a brave soul. […]
Fennel Congee Tea
Congee is a slow-cooked rice porridge used in Chinese culture and medicine as a healing food… and it is also known as “breakfast”. 🙂 Slow cooked rice is easily digested and serves as a vehicle for any other nutrients cooked with it. Rice is used in this way to increase bioavailablity for the other foods. […]
Sun Brat Roulade
This dish started out as an idea for a vegan sausage made with bratswurst spices, and whatever else I had in my pantry. It ended up a very tasty little gluten-free roulade that puts me in mind of a Reuben sandwich. No corned beef. No bread. But the caraway seeds are pronounced, the mushrooms-sunflower seed […]
Yuca Dough
A.K.A. cassava, manioc, or that root vegetable from which tapioca is made. Tapioca is a gluten-free boon! You find tapioca and potato starch in gf flours, desserts and countless foods. “Gluten-free” can be accomplished many many ways… yuca/cassava/tapioca is one tool that may prove immensely useful in a well-rounded gluten-free diet. However, you don’t have […]