Posts Tagged ‘black pepper’

A Sweet and Spicy Snack Recipe

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 16:30 3 Comments

At Christmas, an employee and good friend of ours made us a gift basket filled with many great small gifts, including fantastic candied pecans. Today she brought us another bag full and gave us the recipe as a gift as well.

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A Foolproof Christmas Turkey Gravy Recipe

Wednesday, December 24, 2008 9:51 2 Comments

Every Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter with our families, one of our aunts or mothers (please don’t tell them we said this) struggles with the turkey gravy.  We can end up with anything from light brown flavorless water to lumpy turkey flavored pudding!  Each of them means well, and everyone in the family will always swear [...]

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A Delicious and Easy Chicken Carbonara Recipe

Monday, December 8, 2008 20:18 8 Comments

A few years ago we were eating at one of our then favorite restaurants in Seattle, Palomino, when I tried their carbonara.  Carbonara has always been one of our favorite Italian pasta recipes, and I had had carbonara in other restaurants previously.  However, on this particular day for some reason it struck me as completely [...]

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