This is my chicken tortilla soup recipe. Way back when we were still dating my wife Jaime and I took a vacation to Florida to stay at my parents town home in Orlando. We were still living in the north back then, prior to our move to South Carolina. While there, we decided to go try a place we saw by the name of Cracker Barrel. It just so happened that their soup of the day that day was chicken ...
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Indian Butter Chicken
Indian Style Butter Chicken serves as a pretty simple way to try some Indian-style food. The chicken is combined with a rich, spicy and creamy tomato-style sauce spiced a bit differently than would be a perhaps more familiar Italian style tomato sauce. Indian Butter Chicken is similar to chicken tikka masala, but is way easier to implement. I started making this about a year ago for my wife. ...
Garlic Infused Olive Oil
My father loves to buy garlic infused olive oil at the various Italian stores he has access to up where he and my mother live in New York. Down here in South Carolina it seems to be a little more difficult to find. One day I wanted to have some garlic infused olive oil to use on a grandma pizza pie I was making, so I decided to go ahead and just make what I needed. I used fresh garlic cloves, ...
Italian Beef Braciole
Winter holiday time is really my favorite time to cook. The weather gets a little chillier, the food gets a little heartier. One thing I don't make much during the warm months is the all day slow cooked Sunday tomato sauce with meat. Well that changes once the Fall arrives. And when I decide to cook the Sunday sauce, Italian Beef Braciole is definitely going on the menu. My family and I are big ...
Pico de Gallo
Pico de gallo is one of my favorite dishes to make. And why is that? Well, it's absolutely delicious! Two, it is super fresh and healthy. And three, CILANTRO! I love working with cilantro. While maybe cilantro isn't everybody's cup of tea, I absolutely love chopping up a bunch of cilantro. It gets so deliciously fragrant, and its scent always immediately reminds me of the taste of fresh pico de ...
Spicy Pasta
With this simple Spicy Pasta recipe, you can wow your family with dinner in mere minutes, and tingle their tastebuds while you do it. Italians call this an arrabbiata sauce, translated to angry sauce. Many people when they make pasta with tomato sauce think that once the basic sauce is done they just have to add it to the pasta and the work is done. But there is so much creativity and ...
Roasted Tomato and Basil Soup
Okay, you don't really get much more in the traditional Italian flavors department than this. When you think of Italian food, you of course think of tomatoes. You think of basil. You think of olive oil. And you think of garlic. Now think of all of those aromas filling up your kitchen at once. That's what you get in this healthy and super hearty tomato and basil soup! This is one of my all time ...
Sausage, Peppers and Onions in A Red Wine Sauce
Everybody knows that when you are taking in a game at the ballpark, a sausage, peppers and onions sandwich is the way to go! The spicy fennel taste of the sausage with the pungent peppers and sweetness from the onion on a delicious yeasty roll is a combination as easy to enjoy as cookies and ice cream. I have made this recipe a few times over the last few months, and decided to finally share it ...