Something Different: Stuffed Peppers with Creame Burilee

Smooth and creamy Crème brûlée finishes your savory stuffed roasted bell peppers.

Crème brûlée, also known as burnt cream, is a rich custard topped with a contrasting layer of hard caramel served at room temperature.

The custard is flavored with vanilla, but can also be flavored with lemon or orange, rosemary, lavender, chocolate, Amaretto, Grand Marnier, cinnamon, coffee, liqueurs, gree

Meatless Monday: Seitan-Cashew Blanquette

It's Meatless Monday. This is an amazing gourmet meal that is easy to make and easy on the budget, too.

Blanquette is traditionally a ragout made from lamb, veal, or chicken paired with a white cream sauce, but here, tempeh takes the staring role.

Go Meatless Monday is recognized by cities and countries all around the world. It's a day people unite around food.

Seitan is made from wheat, but has little in common with flour or bread. It's called wheat meat, wheat gluten or simply gluten. Seitan resembles the texture of meat when cooked, making it a popular meat substitute.

Something Different: How to Make Pot Stickers

When my children were growing up, I used to make Lumpias. Yummy! Today, I don't have small children's hungry mouths to fill, so I modified the recipe for me and my honey.

I make pot stickers which are a smaller version. I simply use wonton wrappers instead of egg roll or spring roll wrappers.

SHow to Make Caramelized Onions

It's all about those delicious nutritious onions. Onion is a bulb-vegetable, one of the oldest edible food sources known to mankind. You can enjoy all or part of an onion, raw or cooked.

One of the popular ways to cook onions is to saute them and another favored way is to caramelize them. So, here's how to do onions two ways:

Pop's Cilantro Sour Cream

Sour cream is a must at our dinner table. We spoon it on hot enchiladas, tamales, beans, rice and anything else on our plate. We eat it on top of food, on the side and all by itself. Yup! Our family loves sour cream.

Even though any one of us love it straight out of the Daisy container, we love it served in a colorful bowl plain and spiced up, too. Here's an unforgettable recipe for cilantro sour cream to fancy up any holiday meal.

Love Food: Mom's Perfect Spanish Rice

For years, I tried to make Spanish rice like my grandmother. I had devoured many a bowl full, and I wanted to duplicate the recipe to go with my refried beans and enchiladas, but my rice never turned out right. Good, but not good enough. 

 I was disappointed, but kept trying different recipes. I tried all kinds of ways to make it.

Go Texan: Gluten-Free Jalapeño Cornbread

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Whether it's grown, sewn or served up on a plate, more than 26 million Texans shop, travel and dine out in support of Texas agriculture.

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Make this Texas Chef's Gluten-Free
Jalapeño Cornbread recipe today
.

Love Food: Mom's Chile Corn Casserole

Mom's corn pudding casserole

Serving mom's chile corn casserole anytime is a wonderful treat, but it is most welcome when the kids and their kids gather together for the Christmas meal. 

The children love my corn "pudding" casserole  that I often make for Christmas dinner. Along these same lines, last evening I made corn chowder with green chili much like my corn pudding.

That's a favorite time to make and bake my traditional corn casserole. It's unique and more like a chili corn casserole than the plain corn casserole recipes you see in cookbooks today.

Baby Peas in a Bowl

Add a vegetable to your meal whether it's for dinner or Sunday brunch. You don't have to be a gourmet cook.

You don't have to know how to clean the fresh-off-the-vine vegies. Just spice up some frozen peas and serve. It's quick and easy.

Here's my recipe for a nice add to the dinner plate.

Love Food: Mom's Delicious Homemade Refried Beans

Homemade refried beans
topped with cheddar cheese

To make mom's homemade refried beans, start with a 16 oz package (1 lb.) of pinto beans, sometimes called frijoles pintos.

I must say that one time, and I mean one time only, I bought a can of prepared refried beans. They were dense so I doctored them up a bit: They passed, but holy cow, never again.

The taste of homemade beans cannot be beat, and a bag of pinto beans is pennies, merely pennies.

Open the package and wash well. Even today's clean cooking foods need a bath, especially dried foods such as pinto beans.

Fluffy Garlic Smashed Potatoes

There are all kinds of ways to prepare mashed potatoes. You can just smash them or whip them or cream them.

You can serve potatoes plain, in their skins or dress the cooked potato meat with a zillion different flavors.

Here's How to Oven Roast Asparagus with Delicious, Mouth Watering Results

Roasted Asparagus with Garlic Mayonnaise sauce is healthy way to eat vegetables. Asparagus is a wonderful side dish for just about any entree. I even fix myself a plate for lunch. The best part is that Asparagus is high in folic acid, potassium and fiber. It's loaded with Vitamin B6.

My Honey makes asparagus better than anyone. He grills or sautés asparagus in a hot iron skillet with extra virgin olive oil (EVOO).

Cranberry-Jalapeno Relish

This is an easy recipe to make. The relish makes a surprising compliment to just about any dish. Set it on the table in a pretty glass bowl with a little spoon. 

It takes about 35 minutes to prepare, makes 3 cups of relish, and it is so tasty as a side flavor to scrambled eggs, turkey sandwiches, and even a chicken casserole dinner.  Spoon it potatoes. Awesome!

Thanksgiving Sourdough Stuffing with Bacon

Try this Thanksgiving Sourdough Stuffing with Bacon. Yum! Yes, it even includes chestnuts for the real deal when it comes to traditional holiday foods. You totally look like professional chef when you serve this fairly easy recipe to guests at the table or around the buffet.

Adorable Thanksgiving Treat

Knock the socks off your Thanksgiving guests with this eye-catching hors d'oeuvre spectacular, an adorable Thanksgiving treat for your table. It's a plater that flatters your culinary talent.

Homemade Mango Chutney Makes a Great Gift and Saves Money

Hello blogee. Savings tips are on my mind this month. Homemade gifts save money and make what I think are welcome personal gifts. I think my children will love something I make for them. Because of my cooking lessons and all, one of my ideas is to homemake food for Christmas gifts this year. Okay, I am thinking ahead a bit. But that's me. The planner. Anyway, the first thing that comes to mind is chutney.

Mom's Butternut Squash Casserole

Here's a smart cooking contender for the Christmas dinner table. I know it's early to be thinking about Christmas, but I so love our family gathering at Christmas, and this is such a good and healthy vegetable. It would be the perfect addition to our holiday meal. My mouth is still tingling with happy delight. Boy, it's good, good and more good.

Pop's Chestnut Dressing

This mouth-watering chestnut dressing is a recipe that isn't meant to be used as a turkey stuffing, but it can be. If you are still "stuffing your turkey" with a bread mixture, you could use this chestnut dressing. Make the dressing and stuff into your cleaned turkey.