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Beef Short Rib Ragu

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Beef Short Rib Ragu

Recently I traveled to New York City with my cookbook book club. We rented an apartment, pretended we were in college once again and enjoyed many adventures in the city. As you might guess our days revolved around food and great restaurants, pastry shops, bakeries and kitchenware stores. We had so many great experiences that I hope to capture in the months to come and share with you.

One day that stands out in my mind, and one that I just can’t quite shake the memory of, was my lunch that I enjoyed at Eataly. I happened to be by myself before a business meeting and happened upon this food lovers mecca.

I decided to enjoy lunch and indeed it was quite an experience. [Read more…]

BBQ Pork Steak

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BBQ Pork Steak

There are still plenty of days left before the ice and snow hit hard to enjoy the thrill of the grill. Midwesterners grill pork steak and that is something that other parts of the country typically do not enjoy. It is time to join the bandwagon. Pork steak is inexpensive, no, let me say cheap! Remember the holidays are just around the corner so the time to start counting pennies is now. Why not enjoy enjoy a scrumptious meal and tuck the extra $ away for the months ahead? [Read more…]

Slow Cooker Beef Heros and Fun at the Great Midwest Balloon Fest

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Slow cooker beef sandwich photo
About this time in the summer, I grow weary of grilled chicken and plain ole burgers. Don’t get me wrong, I love grilling out, but sometimes you need to change it up a bit.

There are also those weekends that are so packed with fun or work you need a quick meal. Like this weekend, put this recipe in your slow cooker and come out and enjoy the US Bank Great Midwest Balloon Fest at the Kansas Speedway.  After your fun day, you can go home and have a great tasting, almost-ready-to serve dinner!  (Now, keep reading this blog–and you will discover when we will be at the Balloon Fest–and if you show us a picture of your slow cooker meal, you will get $5.00 off of our Triple Slow Cooker Entertaining Cookbook. [Read more…]

Pork Fried Rice

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Fried Rice

Ahhhh summer time and the living is easy. Summer has been kind to us so far. Not too many days with extreme heat and yet plenty of heat for the herbs and garden. It still seems a sin to heat up the oven for dinner so we find many of our meals involve the grill. This is great and we enjoy the herb grilled meats and fish. The downside when our family grills is that we always tend to grill too much. Yes, leftovers are good to a point but then you need to repurpose them or “recycle” as my mom would say when I was growing up.

Last week, pork tenderloin was on sale for 5 bucks. [Read more…]