recipes that are simple and delicious.

A few years back, I decided to give pickled beet eggs another opportunity. When growing up, I recall my parents, and relatives going nuts about how good they were. While I went through the process of cooking them and then letting them take a nice, long bath in the beet juice, I was looking forward to [...]

I’m an advocate of trying to make sure my kids get a warm breakfast while I am home. Now, typically during the week they are eating frozen pancakes, or French toast dipper sticks, and an occasional scrambled egg will go into the mix if my middle kid if feeling adventurous, but on the weekend, I try [...]

Personally I am not a big fan of sweets for breakfast, and well, sweets in general, but my kids are. If you put anything sweet in front of my kids however, well, that is a different story, and as the great parent that I am, I decided to make them some baked french toast. Now [...]

If you have never tried a Vietnamese Bánh mì sandwich, I encourage you to either seek on out, or better yet, make one in your own kitchen. I remember the first time I bit into the sandwich, and I was blown away by the flavors, and textures of something so simple. It could literally be [...]

Since the beginning of the new year, I have been cooking up a storm. I suppose that is not too unusual as I am the one primarily whipping things up, or planning ahead for the busy work week. As any parent, we all know that when you walk through the door, you pretty much have noisy [...]

I’m going to let you in on a little secret. One of my guilty pleasures is eating an egg McMuffin during the week. Yes, I admit it. As much as I cannot stand fast food, and McDonald’s in particular (besides their french fries, and Coca Cola), but I love their egg McMuffin sandwiches. Now I [...]

I am in love with potato skins. I really am. I think most people are as well. There is something to be said about them, and that is just plain awesome. There is also something to be said about a simple ham and cheese combination. To me, the ham and cheese sandwich is almost up [...]

I have a couple of things that I truly love for breakfast. The first is corned beef hash, and the other is a Canadian bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich. Corned beef has is something that I learned to make from my dad. It seemed like something he would get excited to make, and overall, his [...]

My family is a big fan of hash browns. Every single person in the house loves them, and that is rarely the case unless it is chocolate or some type of candy. The problem when I make crispy hash browns is that my pan is not large enough. Now sure, I could break out the electric [...]

I’ve said it before, and I will say it again, one of my kids LOVES bacon. As many of us love great bacon, this kid seems like no other. I mean he really loves bacon. If I could cook it everyday, and sometimes I dream of that, I probably would for this kid. Anyway, this [...]

I said it. I laid it out there. Pork floss. Many, I would think, have not seen, nor tasted pork floss before. There are a number of different names for it, however the generic term is simply pork floss. You will be amazed at some of the great things you can find at your local [...]

Sure, I could have labeled this sandwich in many ways, but I decided to call it the hangover. Surely I was not hungover when I made it, but while thinking of the recipe and after eating it, well, I thought it would be the cure all to energize the brain, body, and tastebuds after a [...]

I have to admit, I like planning things to do for Mother’s Day. I will also admit that my wife works pretty darn hard every week, not only in her full-time job, but also taking care of the kids. So as the ‘big day’ quickly approached this past weekend, my job was to make sure [...]

Let me start by saying, I love cooking with my kids. However, with that said, there are not a whole lot of times during the weekday that I can present that opportunity due to busy schedules. Furthermore, I ‘think’ the last thing that is on their mind when they get home from school is a [...]

The title says it all. It’s a mouthful of awesomeness. I have been wanting to make a bacon and peanut butter sandwich for my oldest kid for some time. I only wanted to make it because peanut butter and bacon are probably his two favorite things to eat. A peanut butter sandwich is packed in [...]

Roasting a chicken is something we pretty much do once a week in my family. There are a variety of reasons why I do this, particularly because it is really easy, and more so that it feeds and pleases everyone at the table, and more importantly, it is just comforting. But there are plenty of [...]

Many years ago I thought I had the opportunity of a lifetime. I had the chance to take a job at Level 3 Communications. I had a chance to work in Denver, Colorado, and as I was only there once before on a mountain biking trip with some high school friends, Denver was one of [...]

I had one of those mornings where I woke up and immediately began working. I’m sure you have had this type of morning as well. Well, I got so caught up into my work that by the time I looked at the clock it was already 10:15 a.m. Normally I like to go to the [...]

Years ago, there was a restaurant in my neighborhood called The Atlanta Bread Company. I am fairly certain it is a chain restaurant where it focuses on pastries, coffee, sandwiches, and soups. When the restaurant first opened, I ordered food from there on several occasions,and as it was fairly decent in the first months of opening, [...]

You have probably heard this dish been called a handful of names depending on where you grew up. Often referred to as egg in the basket, egg in the hole, frog in the hole, or even toad in the hole, this simple breakfast dish is a real winner at the table. It was only a [...]

Many of us growing up probably had that night out of the week where breakfast was being served for dinner. I know when I was growing up, it was a fairly exciting night to have breakfast for dinner. Maybe it was the idea that we were going to have bacon, or pancakes with that bacon, [...]

For the past several weeks, I have been on a salsa making frenzy. I was jarring it up and giving it to neighbors, and pretty much eating a variety of salsa with pretty much anything around me. I had thought I had mastered my red salsa until I tweaked a few ingredients, added a bit [...]

Shrimp and grits have been on my mind for a very long time now. I have no idea why, or what has made the thought stick in the back of my head, but it has been there for a very long time. This past weekend, I had to get that thought out of my head [...]

I go to the store quite a bit. When I was growing up I would always joke that it was my dad that would make that run. It always seemed, and most likely was the case, that he would go to the bank and then to the store. My dad knew every checkout girl by [...]

I believe the first thing I learned to make in the kitchen was probably eggs. My parents worked the first shift while growing up, and my brother and I were on our own in the morning. Reflecting back on it, I think that by waking up, getting ready for school, and walking less than two [...]