Simple Charcuterie cheese board

 

I DID IT!

The elements of this dish come together like a symphony orchestra. Every item complimenting the next. They are all working together so you taste salt, sweet, zesty, and spicy. Then experience textures like soft, crunchy, and crumbly. I can see why these are all the rage, and how this can make a banging brunch.

Tex-Mex chicken mac n cheese

Rotisserie revamp!

Store bought rotisserie revamp 3: Mac n cheese

A merger of American and Mexican flavors. This is one of the most flavorful baked macaroni and cheese dishes I probably have ever made. It’s salsa, mac n cheese, queso, chicken and everything in-between all baked into one delicious bite. Cilantro and cheese are a match made in heaven. And this baked macaroni and cheese is heavenly.

Pumpkin Chili Cheese Pasta

Pumpkin Everythang!

Have you ever had one of those days where you wanted to make a quick and easy dinner in one pot? That was me the day I made this concoction. I had a small pack of ground beef, some pumpkin, left over frozen blocks of cheese from past recipes, a box of spaghetti and a dream that it would all come together and be delicious.

Grilled chicken n cheese

'Sammies' 

The best chicken sandwich I think I have ever had in my life is from a little bakery in soho NY. I can’t remember the name; it’s on Prince Street with a green storefront. They make the most epic cilantro grilled chicken sandwiches in this world. I have recreated it several times at home with smoked mozzarella, it’s just pure bliss. I was going to post that recipe to the blog however the universe was just against me.

Tasty cheese steak sliders

'Sammies' 

This one right here is so delicious. I have always used dinner rolls to make sliders but never thought to make one huge slider and then cut them up into pieces after. I got this brilliant idea from one of buzz feed tasty’s videos. They made sliders four ways, and I remember thinking, they should have made a cheese steak slider.

Candied bacon egg and cheese sandwich

'Sammies' 

The classic bacon egg and cheese, it’s that one sandwich that you almost can’t go wrong with. Bacon is perfect, eggs are divine and cheese even more so. Then the breads that they can grace are seemingly endless, croissants, bagels, white, wheat, rye, sourdough, coco bread, rolls, muffins, even doughnuts and cinnamon buns. Yes I have seen bacon egg and cheese sandwiched between two glazes cinnamon buns. Today’s post is not that extreme, but it most definitely is putting on a brand new pair of shoes on an old favorite.

Potato bacon egg and cheese hash

"Potato Patata" 

What do you do on a Saturday morning when you wake up and have the task to make breakfast or three hungry mouths? You make the breakfast hash of champions. This breakfast was soooooo good. Last Saturday I made a huge pot of this, everyone was so hungry that I could barely get pics of the food. It’s a real hearty meal that will have you full the entire day.

Scallion Pancake Philly Cheese Steak Wrap

Potluck

There are several crazy things happening all at once in this one delicious bite.  There is the delicious scallion pancake, the perfectly cooked peppers and onions, the rib eye steak and then there is the garlic provolone cheese sauce. The most perfect layers of flavors one could imagine.

Cheesy Pumpkin Bake

M...eat...less

We have nice little farm where we grow cabbage, string beans, spinach thyme scallion, peppers, tomatoes, sugar cane, avocado, and the list goes on. At the present moment we have a huge pumpkin vine growing that has every intention of taking over the garden. Every now and again when the pumpkins are ready, we have more pumpkins than mouths to feed it. That’s how this recipe was born out of a need to use the most perfect pumpkin ever.

Baked arugula and Spinach mac n cheese

M...eat...less

Damn Greedy girl, back at it again with the mac n cheese! Yes another one, this time it’s a green mac n cheese. I said recently on my Instagram that since we updated our herb and vegetable garden I’m finding uses for the new herbs and veggies left, right and center. The best recipes are inspired by your grocery shopping trip or even a simple visit to your herb and vegetable garden.

Cheesy chocolate brioche bread pudding for two

"Feast of Saint Valentine"

The one thing I look forward to when I come to NY is my visit to whole foods.  And not just for the experience, for the French brioche bread. The French bread by Euro Classic is the most delicious brioche bread I have ever eaten in my life; has me wanting to book a flight to France. I could literally eat the entire bag. With that said I can’t lie to you, it really pained my soul to use the bread to make a bread pudding. Hence today I bring you a very small bread pudding for two.

Louisiana chicken n pasta

I love Pasta

Crispy Cajun fried chicken breast atop creamy Cajun spiced bowtie pasta. This dish is inspired by cheesecake factories “Louisiana chicken n pasta” I love the combination of crispy and creamy. I would bet money that it’s one of cheese cake factories bestselling dishes. This homemade version was a real crowd favorite, everyone loved it, not a single drop of left overs. I can assure you that will be the case if you try it too.

Fettuccine alfredo with thyme roasted pearl onions

I love Pasta

Fettuccine alfredo a classic dish amped up with lots of parsley some fresh basil and the most delicious thyme roasted pearl onions ever. This is a great recipe for both adults and kids I whipped this one up really quickly this morning.

BBQ Chicken Macaroni and Cheese

I love Pasta

This is a simple and easy recipe I make all the time at home. Especially if I want a quick one pot go to meal. It’s creamy cheesy slightly sweet from the BBQ sauce and has bits of chicken, onion and peppers all thorough.  No way could pasta month go by without me sharing my little secret BBQ chicken macaroni and cheese.

Salmon burger with sweet dill cream

Burger Showdown!

I always have to find a way to implement vegetarian and seafood dishes into my monthly blog postings. So a salmon burger is a natural addition to the list of burgers I will be doing this month. The yummy salmon burger for today is topped with grilled onions, broccoli sprouts and smothered in a simple creamy dill sauce.

The classic beef burger

Burger Showdown!

They say a classic never dies; and for good reason. This burger has protein, carbs, fat, veggies, sugars, the entire food pyramid layered into one perfect meal. Since I will be doing a whole month of all sorts of burgers, it’s only right to start with the godfather of them all, the burger everyone loves, and the burger everyone should know how to make.

Strawberry Cheesecake Ice-cream

Call me the Dairy Queen

This ice-cream will be the hit will all the cheesecake lovers out there. Unfortunately I am not one of them. I could never wrap my head around eating a large chunk of cheese and butter. I generally peel off the crust and eat that with a little strawberry topping. However as a cheesecake hater I will say this ice-cream is quite good.  The consensus from everyone who has tasted it is that it tastes exactly like cheesecake. I think it taste better.

Pepperoni Pizza Omelette

The best way to eat an egg!

Pizza for breakfast is almost as common as having an omelette. Today we combine the two, a delicious peperoni pizza omelette filled with mozzarella cheese. Serve this with some toast and you will truly feel as though you’re eating a slice from your favorite pizza shop.

Cheese patty in a rosemary garlic crust

Juici...and if you don't know, now you know!

The month culminates with a delicious and simple patty, probably the easiest to prepare of all the patties this month. Not only was it the easiest it was the most delicious. Who said a patty has to have anything else in it but cheese? Oh the wonder that is this patty, by far my absolute favorite of the month.

BBQ Pulled pork patty in a rosemary garlic crust

Juici...and if you don't know, now you know!

It is a rare occurrence when pork makes its way into a patty. And I don’t mean bacon, I mean pork; meaty and juicy, the other white meat. For this recipe I wanted to make a jerk pork patty but after thinking about it, I opted for low and slow. And a pulled pork patty is born.