Pork

Roast Pork with Pears and Caramelized Onions

February 4, 2009
Roast Pork with Pears and Caramelized Onions

My name is Shawnda and I’m a recovering cooking magazine junkie. I used to love cooking magazines. I had a monthly routine: I would gather all my new magazines and a sticky note pad and head for the couch, very hopeful about finding something new for next week’s dinner. Flip, flip, flip. Page by page. [...]

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Roasted Chestnut and Sausage Dressing

December 30, 2008
Roasted Chestnut and Sausage Dressing

They say you’re not supposed to try new recipes out at the holidays because it’s stressful and you don’t want to be faced with a houseful of disappointed guests. Because cooking a familiar meal for 13 isn’t stressful enough already? Whatev. “They” are crazy – the holidays are the perfect time to try out new [...]

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Carnitas

May 12, 2008
Carnitas

One of the things I enjoy about living in Houston is the availability of fantastically authentic Mexican food. There’s Tex-Mex and then there’s Mexican. You’d be hard pressed to drive through many areas of town without finding a Carniceria (a Mexican meat market) or Panaderia (Mexican bakery) in nearby strip centers. Shelves of the markets [...]

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Meet The Croques

March 2, 2008
Croque Monsieur

Him: Where’s my egg? Me: Wait, what? Really? Him: You know I like eggs. Don’t you know me? Me: You want a fried egg. On top of your sandwich. Him: [Pause] Well, maybe we can just split the sandwiches. A fried egg on top of ham, cheese, and a garlicky bechamel sauce. A lazy weekend [...]

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Pork Tenderloin with Balsamic-Cranberry Sauce

November 12, 2007
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Strawberry and peach season quietly slipped by while we were not so quietly remodeling our kitchen (I’m pretty sure that our neighbors hate us ) Cranberry season, however, will not pass uncelebrated in this house. I love cranberries – if I could only take one fruit with me to a deserted island, it would be [...]

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Chicken-Bacon Roulade

October 7, 2007
Chicken-Bacon Roulade

A couple of months after our wedding, a friend asked me what I’d learned being a married woman. My reply: “That meat-stuffed meat fixes anything.” After laughing, he responded, “Yeah. Just keep us fed. That’s really all it takes.” And it’s so very, very true. I married a meat-and-pasta kind of guy – if he [...]

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