• Chicken,  Main Course,  Recipes

    Chicken Parmesan

    You will need: Panko bread crumbs,  olive oil, Italian seasonings of your choice, chicken cutlets, eggs, flour, marinara sauce, fresh basil leaves, mozzarella cheese, salt and pepper. Spread panko bread crumbs onto a sheet pan.  Sprinkle bread crumbs with your favorite Italian seasonings (I like oregano, basil and thyme), finally sprinkle on salt and pepper.  Drizzle olive oil over the bread crumbs and using your fingers just mix up the oil, to lightly coat the bread crumbs. Spread the bread crumbs back out onto the same sheet pan and roast them at 350º for about 8 minutes.  Remove from oven and allow them to cool. Meanwhile, take the chicken cutlets…

  • Grill It!,  Recipes,  Vegetables

    EASY Cheesy New Potatoes Hobo Pack

    Cheesy new Potatoes Hobo Pack This is a really easy side dish when you already have the grill – or Big Green Egg fired up! Non-stick cooking spray 1 lb. fingerling, round red or tiny Yukon potatoes, quartered (I used Yukon gold small potatoes) ¼ cup chopped yellow, sweet onion 1 tsp, snipped fresh thyme ¼ tsp. salt ¼ tsp. ground black pepper 5 ounces of your favorite cheddar cheese, shredded Fold a 36×18 inch piece of heavy foil in half to make an 18-inch square. coat foil with nonstick cooking spray. Place potatoes, onions, thyme, salt and pepper in a large bowl.   Mix together with hands (as to be…

  • From the Sea,  Recipes

    Halibut with Fresh Tomato Sauce and Arborio Rice

      6 T Olive oil                         5 large garlic cloves                 1/4 t crushed red pepper 3 lbs fresh tomatoes              1/8 t saffron threads                 5 oregano sprigs zest of 1 orange in 1″ wide strips                5 bay leaves        3 whole cloves 1 cup arborio rice                3-4 halibut fillets         chopped parsley        salt & pepper 1. In a large, deep skillet, heat the olive oil. Add garlic and red pepper and cook over moderate heat until the garlic is golden, about 1 minute. Add the tomatoes and saffron and cook over moderate heat until the tomatoes just begin to soften, about 5 minutes. Add the oregano and season with salt & pepper. Cook…

  • Restaurants,  Reviews

    The Vinings Fish Company

    The Vinings Fish Company is an above average dining experience.  As a foodie, I can appreciate their excellent food, prompt service and comfortable atmosphere. Upon our Friday evening arrival, we were courteously greeted and promptly seated. Although I had made reservation for 7 PM, the evening crowd had not yet arrived; however, it eventually did.  I wish I had made reservations for their couple’s veranda, outside.  Very romantic and overlooking the Vinings Jubilee shopping area, weather was perfect for outside dining.  Nevertheless, our interior booth was just fine.  Small accessories exemplified the nautical theme for the restaurant, including digital monitors replicating an aquarium. The menu offers hot appetizers as well…

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    Main Course,  Pork,  Recipes,  Side Dishes

    Maple-Glazed Stuffed Pork Roast

    Did you ever plan a romantic maple-glazed stuffed pork roast and then discover, you did not buy what you thought you did? I found a great recipe from Kraft Foods Magazine (which readers must now pay for when this magazine used to be free), Maple-glazed stuffed roast pork. I had purchased what I THOUGHT to be a pork roast, however, it turned out to be two small pork loins netted together. My husband created an ingenious solution. He suggested placing the stuffing in between the two loins, tieing the two loins together with butcher’s twine, and cooked it on the Big Green Egg for about 90 minutes or so…it was…