Sourdough Muffaletta

I had purchased a jar of olive salad while we were in Florida. It’s good to mix into scrambled eggs, but I bought it mainly to make a muffuletta. I love the meaty, rich taste of a muffaletta once in a while. The Muffaletta is a great picnic sandwich or a party sandwich for Mardi […]

Instant Pot Preserved Lemon, Mushrooms and Peas Risotto with Chicken Tenders

The other day I was looking in my pantry when I saw Arborio rice. I also was thinking about other dishes for using my preserved lemons. Between them, they sparked an idea and I came up with the following recipe. It has a lovely lemony flavor that goes well with the peas. It makes a […]

Instant Pot Moroccan Style Chicken

When I posted about making preserved lemons, I got many comments wondering what I was going to do with the preserved lemons. With the preserved lemons being ready, I decided to make a Moroccan style chicken in my Instant Pot. I started out by making the recipe for the Moroccan spice blend (Ras el Hanout) […]

One Pot Pasta Dish with Sausage, Tomatoes and Baba Ghanoush

This recipe is a modification of the Pasta with Italian Sausage, Tomatoes and Eggplant from Milk Street: Tuesday Nights Mediterranean by Christopher Kimball. I recently purchased ripe tomatoes and eggplants from a farm market. I used the eggplant to make baba ghanoush and ate most of the tomatoes in tomato sandwiches. I had two cups […]

Leftover Hot Crab Dip Usages

I made a hot crab dip to use up the lump crab meat, sour cream, and cream cheese from Thanksgiving. Cheddar cheese, mayonnaise, grated onion, Zatarain’s Shrimp & Crab Boil, dash of liquid smoke, and smoked paprika were also used in the Hot Crab Dip. I sliced some of the leftover dinner rolls and toasted […]

Shrimp and Spaghetti

I made this recipe out of ingredients from the pantry and mostly on hand. My father-in-law had purchased the shrimp and Bruce purchased the cheese and mushrooms for me. Serves 4

Lebanese Lamb Pies (Lamb Fatayar)

This recipe is a slight modification of the meat fatayar recipe by Maureen Abood from Rose Water & Orange Blossoms. Serves 12 to 24 Makes 24 to 30

Low FODMAP Tex-Mex Style Beef and Pork Enchilada

This is a recipe that I made up. I had guest coming over to the RV and I wanted something I could easily prepare ahead of time and then finish when my company come over to tour the RV. Serves 8 to 10

Steak Fajita Recipe

This is my recipe for steak fajitas that I made on my new little grill at my RV. I served these for dinner to Jeanne and Larry. Jeanne took some great pictures while I cooked and she was gracious enough to let me use them for this post. See the post from Jeanne at this […]

Leftover Fajita Quesadillas

I had a lot of fajita leftovers from a steak fajita dinner I made. While the fajitas were good, I wanted to try to do something different. I love quesadillas and thought the leftovers from the fajita dinner would make a great filling. I was very pleased with how well this turned out. I love […]