Corn is corn is corn. While sweet enough on its own, corn lacks that wow factor unless we help it along. Grilled corn takes on a smokey goodness. Herbs and onions bring their own special something to the dish. Butter? That’s a must. Am I right?
Author: Rosemarie's Kitchen
I'm a wife, mother, grandmother and avid home cook.I believe in eating healthy whenever possible, while still managing to indulge in life's pleasures.
Spice Up Your Burger with Southwest Flavor
These burgers are super messy, sloppy, dripping with goodness. Consider yourself dully warned. That means stock up on the napkins cause you’re gonna need them.
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Three-Cheese Lemon Spaghetti
Spaghetti is such a versatile pasta. It makes for a great pasta salad, or a pasta side or a pasta main dish. It’s all up to you, and how you like your pasta served. Spaghetti pasta as a side can be as simple as warm noodles kissed with a little butter and garlic or as elaborate as a red wine cream sauce spaghetti.
Sizzling Hot Chorizo Quesadillas
Some like it hot. If you are among the “bring on the heat” crowd, these quesadillas should do the trick. First, you’ve got good chorizo at the heart of the filling. Then you’ve got a spicy sauce that packs a mean Jalapeno punch. I mean – wow!
Chili-Cheese Baked Potato Supper
Today we are making the long drive home from the Oregon Coast. I miss Oregon already. There is something healing about being near the ocean. And I don’t mean the sunny beaches of Hawaii. I mean the cold, damp foggy beaches of the Pacific Northwest. There is a sadness, a loneliness of the mist kissed rocky shores that somehow transforms into an inner quiet. Who knows, maybe I was a lighthouse keeper in a prior life.
Chicken and Broccoli-Vegetable Stir Fry
Not far from where I grew up, along a twisted Delta road is the town of Locke. Established in 1915, Locke is the last remaining rural Chinatown in all of America. That is not to say that Locke was exclusively Chinese. Some Japanese also helped to establish the Delta town of Locke, just across the river from the town of Walnut Grove.
Five-Star Thick Clam Chowder
The best part of spending a week up and down the Oregon coast has to be the bowls and bowls of awesome Clam Chowder. You can even go clamming and have some places make a chowder for you from your very own bucket of clams. Wow!
Lemon Asparagus Chicken Linguine for an Italian Feast
Today is our last day in Florence. I’ll be sharing the beauty of our Northwest Adventure soon. I promise. In the meantime, let’s enjoy a beautiful meal together, shall we?
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Mason Jar Berry Cheesecake Parfaits
Ever since I saw a share about lunch salads that had been made in advance and layered into mason jars I have been fascinated by the whole concept of layering foods to be served in jars. Think about it – any of your parfait or trifle recipes can be adapted to work with Mason Jars. Glass will keep cold longer and make for a better presentation. The jars are reusable. The seal is better. What is not to like?
Chicken Florentine Crêpes with Mushrooms
Welcome to day two in Florence, Oregon. This picturesque coastal town sits on the banks of the Siuslaw River. Famous for Mo’s Clam Chowder, sand dunes and beautiful ocean views. Depending upon how you approach things, life here seems to slow down or speed up. Sound crazy, I know, but Florence has a great deal to offer.
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Whenever we take “driving vacations” I always try to talk Hubby into letting me bring things from home that I feel are necessary, he does not. Things like my professional knives (hey, they have a carrying bag), or better yet a crock pot. Just think of all the meals that can be made in a crock pot. We can be out all day exploring, come back to the hotel and have a home-cooked meal.
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Easy Rustic Garlic Pizza Bread
Welcome to Florence – Oregon that is! For the next few days, this is home. When in Florence, we love to stay at the Driftwood Resort. No matter the room, all have ocean views. The beach is just steps away. And every room comes with a fully-stocked kitchen.
Peppercorn Filets with Mushroom Port Reduction Sauce
This recipe had me at Reduction Sauce. Anytime a sauce is simmered and reduced, it becomes even more intensely flavored. By its very definition, Reduction is a process of thickening and intensifying the flavor of a liquid. This concentration of flavors is achieved through evaporation. I know, it sounds like a lot of scientific stuff, but what it all comes down to is flavor. Reduction sauces are bursting with flavor.
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Easy Spaghetti Stromboli
If you are like me, when you cook up Spaghetti there are always leftovers to deal with. I’m not complaining – my guys get a few lunches out of what’s left. I like to make Spaghetti Meatball Sandwiches as a second meal. Of course that means I would have to make the spaghetti with meatballs rather than a meat sauce. Recently, I made a double batch of my Smoking Spaghetti with beer in the sauce. I needed plenty of leftovers for a new Stromboli recipe I was anxious to try.
Bacon-Wrapped Pork with Sun-Dried Tomato and Basil Beurre Blanc
This is now my second recipe that features Beurre Blanc. Literally translated, Beurre Blanc is French for “White Butter”. The very notion of white butter excites me. Unlike the Five Mother Sauces, Beurre Blanc is fairly new to the culinary world, an accidental creation of Clémence Lefeuvre some time around the beginning of the 20th century.
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