Andouille Macaroni and Cheese is one of my favorite comfort foods, next to chicken, salad, and soup. OK, all food is my favorite comfort food! Macaroni and Cheese brings back so many memories. My mother would make this every holiday. I can still smell the hot macaroni and cheese slightly browned coming out the oven….
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Chipotle Chicken Enchiladas with Elote Salsa
Just like I have an arsenal of macaroni and cheese, gumbo, tacos, and burritos recipes, I also have a wide range of enchilada recipes. Today I am taking two, actually three of my favorite Mexican recipes and combining them into one. That would be chili verde, chiptole chicken and elotes. YUM! All that is missing…
Creole Chicken and Sausage
Food for the Soul! I have been eating and cooking Creole Chicken and Sausage for as long as I can remember. You can make this dish as spicy or as smokey as you like, depending on the type of sausage you use. Sometimes I use an andouille sausage for a more smokey dish, or sometimes…
Roasted Veggie Pizza with Pancetta Cracklings and Spicy Olive Oil
A Slice of Life! I love pizza! I have loved pizza for as long as I can remember. There is nothing better than making a pizza from scratch with fresh ingredients and great cheese. I decided to take my signature veggie pizza and take it to another level. My Roasted Veggie Pizza with Pancetta Cracklings…
Spicy Banh Mi Creole Style with Sriracha Mayo
Umm Umm Good! If you have never eaten a Banh Mi, then you are truly missing out on Vietnamese goodness! My Spicy Banh Mi Creole Style with Sriracha Mayo is delicious. The Banh Mi is a Vietnamese sandwich filled with great meat, fresh and or pickled veggies, and some of the most delicious bread I…
Tex Mex Chicken Lasagna
I created this Tex Mex Chicken Lasagna recipe around 3:00 a.m. in the morning. I knew I wanted to make lasagna but I did not want the standard lasagna with the tomato based sauce. My baby girl does not like lasagna with red sauce so I had to improvise. She also does not like ricotta…
Mango Grilled Shrimp Tacos
Banging Shrimp! Yesterday I made some great Jamaican Jerk Fried Chicken and Mango Chutney. Well I had a lot of left over chutney and I decided to make my Mango Grilled Shrimp Tacos to use up all that leftover chutney. I took my Mango Chutney added a chiptole pepper a little extra seasonings and marinated…
Jamaican Jerk Fried Chicken with Mango Chutney
If you’re ever in Nashville you might want to stop by Jamaica Way Restaurant. I got the idea for Jamaican Jerk Chicken after watching an episode of Diners, Drive-In, and Dives and Jamaica Way was cooking up a storm. Of course I had to revamp the Jamaican Jerk Fried Chicken recipe based on my…
Chili Pie Big Bowl Style
Touchdown! I love chili pie and sorry Texans, I added beans. If you love a big bowl of red then go to my Chili Con Carne recipe without beans. Big Goo does not like beans in his chili so let’s just say, he’s going to have to pick them out. Hey, a girls gotta cook…
Smoked Carnitas Chimichangas
Superbowl Eats Part II! In my recent post Creole Chicken Artichoke Balls I discussed my love of sports, and my need to create food that can stand up to my rambunctious sports loving family. I decided to pull out my smoker, yes it’s cold out but the smoker does all the work. Look at this…
Smokey Grilled Steak with Chipotle Butter
Smoke-Fest! It’s time again, what time is it? It’s steak time and I am about to cook and eat a real good smokey steak with some homemade chipotle butter. The key to turning a steak into a STEAK, is these little smokey, red babies. A chipotle pepper is a smoked jalapeno but it’s not really…
Citrus Chicken 10 Layer Salad
Homemade Creole Buttermilk Ranch Dressing! As I stated in my previous post, Chopped Pasta Salad, I love salad. I try to make at minimum one salad a week. This week I decided to make citrus chicken with 10 layers of goodness and homemade buttermilk ranch dressing. I love ranch dressing and this was so simple…
7 Cheese Mac and Cheese
This is the best 7 Cheese Mac and Cheese, EVER! Yes, I am patting my back and tooting my own horn (toot, toot, beep, beep). I have around 10 different macaroni and cheese recipes I make. From the bacon-mac, andouille-mac, shrimp-mac, crab-mac, truffle-mac, mac-mac, you get my point. Well this is the Mac-i-licious-Mac! The key…
Roasted Chicken and Dumplings Creole Style
Savory Goodness! I love chicken noodle soup. It has been so cold lately and my baby girl is just getting over her cold. I decided to knock the rest of baby girl’s cold out by taking my chicken noodle soup recipe and turning it into Roasted Chicken and Dumplings. I replaced the egg noodles that…
Andouille Stuffed Potatoes
Fast, Quick & Tasty! I decided to make Andouille Stuffed Potatoes today because it’s one of the quickest meals ever. You can stuff potatoes with almost anything and it would turn out excellent. I had some extra Andouille sausage sitting around. Yes, it was just sitting around in my refrigerator saying eat me, and so…
Creole Pan Fried Fish with Thyme Brown Butter Sauce
Like Butter! I truly love fish, although I rarely cook seafood at home because my baby girl is allergic. I decided this year will become the year of the fish and I will start immediately cooking more fish. I am starting off by making some Thyme Brown Butter to cook my fish in. Yes, my…
Cevapi Burger w/ Homemade Lepinja Bread
Best Burger Ever! Yes, I claim this as one of the best burgers ever! If your wondering what is a Cevapi burger? It’s a Bosnian kabob full of minced meats, spices, and pure flavor. Bare with me while you learn new vocabulary such as Cevapi, Lepinja and Kajmak. Yes it’s a mouth full, but well…
California Fried Chicken w/ Spicy Korean Hot Sauce
Finger Licking Good Chicken! I already know what you are about to say, “California Fried Chicken, what is that?” Well I am here to answer all your questions. California fried chicken is what you get when you go to Los Angeles and make a stop in Korea Town. They make this chicken that is so…
Turkey Chili Cheese Burgers on Buttery Pretzel Bun
Burgerlicious! In my previous post about Chili I discussed my love of chili burgers from Tommy’s World Famous in California. Well today, we are going to recreate burger genius. My Turkey Chili Cheese Burgers are delicious. I decided to use turkey chili and turkey burger meat, believe me, you want be able to tell this…
Chile Relleno with Smokey Chicken
Smoked Out! Day 3 of Smokey Goodness! I have just used the last of my smoked chickens to make these quick and easy baked Chicken Chile Rellenos. I love chile rellenos and I make them two different ways. Sometimes I fry them in a nice chiptole beer batter, which are just plain yummy. I will…
