Thai Peanut Noodle Salad This simple Thai Peanut Noodle Salad is almost as delicious as it is easy to make. Even though it uses what looks like a multitude of ingredients, it really doesn’t take much time or effort to put it together. The peanut dressing is super tasty, and you can vary the amount …
Bavarian Apple Strudel One of the many jobs I had while working my way through nursing school was at a wonderful restaurant that was owned by Arthur (from Austria) and his wife Ulley (from Southern Germany). We served all kinds of delicious dishes from the region that they grew up in, but one of the …
Gluten Free Pesto Pasta Salad with Roasted Red Peppers My love for Pesto started when I was a college student and began waiting tables at a restaurant called the Old Vienna Cafe. This was a quaint little place that served European style dishes. When the owners Arthur and Oley were cooking my favorite dishes, I …
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Cucumber Salad One of my favorite sides with a hot summer night’s dinner is a cool, crunchy cucumber salad. I often serve this recipe with our Flanken Cut Short Rib Recipe. The crisp flavor of this salad has just the right amount of acidity and brings a good balance to both tasty dishes. Cucumber …
Frosty Strawberry Dessert Strawberry season brings me back to so many fond memories. As a child, the best part was going to pick those beautiful berries on a sunny Saturday and then sampling them as I picked. Sometimes I think I probably ate more than I ended up with in my pail. My Grandma would …
Pico de Gallo No one knows for sure how it came to be called Pico de Gallo. Pico de Gallo literally translates to “beak of the rooster” in Spanish. There are many speculations about the origin – people who presumably didn’t have tortilla chips so they used their thumb and fingers like a rooster’s beak …
Home Made Coleslaw There is nothing like great tasting coleslaw to go with a BBQ feast. Most often after the potato salad is made, we think about the coleslaw. This slaw is so good it will no longer be an after thought when entertaining. Coleslaw get it’s name from the Dutch word “koolsla”, meaning cabbage …
Easy Potato Salad with Eggs You might say that my family is full of a bunch of potato salad connoisseurs. Kind of like Bubba’s family with shrimp in Forest Gump, we’ve tried every conceivable recipe going back at least three generations. Somewhere along the way, a long lost relative stumbled upon what has become the …