This pasta salad is the ultimate Guessipe, because you can mix and match ingredients and dressing in any way you like. I love it for using up leftovers to quickly and conveniently toss together a tasty dish that works as a side or main dish depending on how hearty you want to make it. Guessipe…
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Honey Butter Chicken Biscuit
For years I had been hearing about the Chick-fil-A Chicken Biscuit, and had been meaning to go try one. I just don’t eat fast food very often, and for some reason on the rare occasions when it seems like a good idea, it’s Sunday… which is a no-go for Chick-fil-A. A couple years ago, they…
Mushroom Garlic Pasta
If you love garlic like I do, then this is a simple pasta dish that focuses on the wonderful garlic flavor, with mushrooms to add some extra umami. You can use whatever kind of pasta you want. Guessipe 1 lb pasta 1/4 cup olive oil 10 cloves garlic, sliced 8 oz mushrooms, sliced 1/2 cup…
Caprese Sandwich
I am a meat lover, but when I’m looking at a sandwich menu there is one vegetarian option that always draws my attention and often wins out over its meaty brethren… the caprese sandwich. It’s fresh and zingy, but substantial enough that I feel completely sated when I’m done eating. When I realized I could…
Soy-Ginger Dinner Scramble
Cookbook Club – Virtual Potluck Well, COVID-19 happened, and that made dinner parties impossible… almost. But we can’t let anything stand in the way of Cookbook Club, so we figured out how to do a virtual potluck. We provided some recipe options from Bon Appetit for “when there’s nothing in the fridge”, and then we…
Lemon Chicken Sauce
Grocery store shelves continue to be pretty bare as this COVID-19 craziness continues. But I did get a load of lemons from a friend. She threw them in my trunk as we waved at each other through the window of my car, which was a surreal social interaction I never thought I’d have, but thanks…
Pasta all’Amatriciana
Cookbook Club – Milk Street: Tuesday Nights The cookbook for our March Cookbook Club was Milk Street: Tuesday Nights. Due to host availability we had scheduled it for earlier in the month than usual, which turned out to be a lucky thing since COVID-19 may keep us from gathering for awhile. It looks like we’ll…
3.14 Pi(e) Day IV
In a scenario I never expected to experience in anything but film and TV, we are now living through a global pandemic called COVID-19. In accordance with CDC guidance to avoid large gatherings, we scaled down our big Pie Day event to just an intimate group of five pie-loving friends. In scary times we need…
Pesto Spinach Breakfast Biscuit
I threw this breakfast biscuit together one morning using whatever I could scrounge up from the fridge. It was such a hit that it has since become a breakfast staple. 1/4 cup thinly sliced red onion 1 tsp rice vinegar 1/4 tsp salt 1 cup spinach, torn into bite-sized pieces 1 TBSP pesto 1/8 tsp…
Japanese Curry
When I was in Japan I had some fantastic curry, and was surprised to learn that many people use packaged Japanese curry roux (Golden, Vermont, and Java are a few popular brands), which they dress up with other ingredients to give the curry a rich, deep flavor. It’s so good! Usually Japanese curry has potatoes…
Pad See Ew
While Pad Thai is probably the most known Thai noodle dish in the US, I actually prefer Pad See Ew. It uses fresh wide rice noodles, which have a fantastic soft chewiness and also get crispy caramelized edges when cooked over high heat in the sauce. Guessipe 2 lbs fresh wide rice noodles peanut oil…