Celebration Generation: Food, Life, Kitties!

“Gourmet” cooking with a lot of effort can be fun and rewarding at times, but sometimes… you just want a really quick, fairly effortless pasta sauce. This is our go-to pasta sauce for those days – it evolved from my old Puttanesca recipe, and became a wonderful sauce on its own merit. Pasta Alla Porters [...]

I want to preface this with a warning that this is not high cuisine. What a way to start out a recipe, eh? Here’s the thing: As I was sauteeing the onions and ground beef, it smelled exactly like White Castle. Funny, that such a basic pair of ingredients can have SUCH an association with [...]

A few years ago, I posted my recipe for Pepper jelly, which has been a favorite in our house for a very long time. It works up quickly and easily, and provides a lot of flavor – super addictive recipe! This year, when I went on my big pickling binge … I decided it was [...]

After seeing how nuts my husband went for the Hoppy IPA Pickles I created for him, I decided that I should make a hopped up version of a pickle relish. We love (non-sweet!) dill pickle relish, this could be a fun variant on the old favorite. As I was already midway through making a batch [...]