Most of us could use more green vegetables in our diets and aside from having a salad, omelettes are the next easiest and more exciting way to enjoy endless green combinations. For pork lovers, if you’re tired of using bacon and dealing with its grease, then try a similar and leaner alternative of smoked pork chop….
7 Tips for Fluffy Rice
Everyone has varying techniques for cooking a plain batch rice and other rice-based recipes. Because of its wishy washy nature rice deserves its own blog post to yield an irresistibly light and fluffy batch regardless of which technique you use. After much trial and tragic error, I arrived at these tips that I swear by…
Jamaican-style Red Beans and Rice
Once you nail down one basic successful technique for making rice and beans together in one pot, you can get creative with countless variations based on the ingredients you choose to sauté, boil and simmer with. This recipe is not the traditional Jamaican “rice and peas” but it incorporates a few key ingredients used in making Jamaican…
Basic Black Beans
To prepare a hearty batch of classic black beans requires just a few key ingredients … cumin, bay leaf, onion and a piece of smoked turkey or pork product. This flavor combination is quite standard but your dish can stand out from the rest by freshly grinding your cumin in any coffee mill which should be…
Fresh (and easy) Plain Tomato Sauce
Countless homemade comfort food recipes – especially rice and beans – call for a small 8 ounce can of plain tomato sauce. However, upon reading the labels on the cans, pretty much all brands seem to have some trace of “spices”, herbs, or even red coloring. Making your own tomato sauce takes only 20 –…