GRILLED HONEY SOY PORK CHOPS This recipe for Grilled Honey Soy Pork Chops is also great with chicken. The sugars in the sauce caramelize beautifully over a flame, so it’s a grilling lover’s dream! “Make it easy, and make it good!” Sometimes, that’s really all we require for dinner, and this Grilled Honey Soy Pork Chops recipe fits that bill…
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Amaretto Butter Cake with Pomegranate and Cream Originally posted December 2016; updated February 2022. This cake recipe has been one of the most popular recipes on the blog since it arrived here in December 2016! It seems to get a lot of attention around Valentine’s Day and Christmas (for obvious reasons), and it has celebrated more birthdays and anniversaries than…
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When it’s cold outside, something like this Rustic Pork, Bean and Vegetable Stew is just the thing we need to warm us up inside. Even if you don’t live here in Minnesota where this recipe originated a few winters back, you can appreciate this kind of good, old fashioned comfort food. It’s the kind of thing you want to ladle…
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Tis the Season! Whatever that means to you, and however you celebrate it, I hope you’ll think about taking a different approach to gift giving this year. I’m a big fan of homemade, handmade gifts just because they’re usually not something you can get anywhere else. They’re generally as thoughtful as they are unique, and they have the added benefit…
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Sometimes, one of something is just not enough. When it comes to making apple bread during the late summer/early fall harvest season, one is definitely not enough. Given all the recipes I have just waiting to be baked, the fact that I keep making my three favorite apple bread recipes every year says something about how good they are. I’ll branch…
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This Turkey Wild Rice Salad is all the reason you need to make EXTRA turkey on Thanksgiving! It’s also a great excuse to make turkey – or just make this recipe vegetarian – any time of year. Check out the many variations below, and make this Turkey Wild Rice Salad soon! This recipe was originally published in November 2016. Updated…
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I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve given out my no-recipe recipe for this Sweet Potato Gratin over the years. It’s something I just pulled together one day… We absolutely loved it, so I keep making it. And I’m pretty sure it gets better every time. Last night – just as I was pulling this pan out of the…
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Someday I’ll bake an apple pie. It’ll be filled to the brim with apples, and topped with the most beautifully artistic crust. It’ll come out of the oven perfectly… The stuff of legend… All that. Until then, I’ll keep baking this gorgeous Apple Pie Bread with Oatmeal Crumb. It’s heady and dense with beautiful bites of apple throughout. The crumb…
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This heavenly Double Apple Streusel Bread just might be one of my favorites. It’s one of my three favorites, for sure. I’ve been making it for several years now, along with my other favorite Apple Cinnamon Ribbon Bread, and my other favorite Apple Pie Bread with Oatmeal Crumb Topping. And it works just as beautifully for deliciously giftable mini loaves…
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This lovely Slow Cooker Applesauce just might be the easiest no-recipe recipe ever… Just the way it should be! Applesauce is the perfect thing to make when you buy too many apples during those autumn apple orchard tours. (Don’t we all?! It’s hard to pass up those bright red beauties when they’ve just been picked!) And, it’s also the perfect thing…
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My Grandmother used to make huge batches of cole slaw. She grated mountains of green cabbage into a big stainless steel bowl along with a little carrot and onion. Grandpa liked “convenient” food – nothing with big pieces, and nothing drippy or messy. He was kind of finicky like that. So, Grandma made sure the food she made was tight…
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A few years ago, my mom and I flew to Paris on a mission to find some new and fabulous things for our retail store. I was convinced that the farther I traveled, the better chance I had of finding fabulous things that would delight our Midwestern clientele. For weeks – two weeks to be exact, because we booked the…
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Rick and I met in early 2006 on Match.com. He was recently divorced, and I had a brick-and-mortar business that basically consumed every waking hour of my life. One of my staff members suggested (actually… insisted) that I join Match to “get a life.” So I did. And after six months of rolling my eyes at the concept, I received…
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