Showing posts with label A Bachelor and His Grill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A Bachelor and His Grill. Show all posts

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Sausage, Escarole and Beans and...

Let's start off with Small Sour Cream Coffee Cake For Two Recipe. I found this recipe on What's Cooking Italian Style Cuisine. I had extra sour cream in the fridge so I made this when I got up and we had it with breakfast. Nice way to start the day.

While I was in a baking mood I had found the recipe for White Chocolate Cherry & Pistachio Cookies on the blog A Bachelor and His Grill. He had a challenge at the end of the post to try to eat only one of these cookies. Forget it. Don't even attempt it. Why put yourself through the stress. You will eat more than one of these cookies. Heck you might even have three of these. Yes they are that good.

Yes this is a blog about dinner. Dinner was Sausage, Escarole and Beans. One of my favorites. Perfect for a cold Sunday night.

Ingredients -
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 pound Italian sausage
2 small onions, cut into wedges
1/2 cup dry white wine
1 cup low-sodium chicken broth
1 19-ounce can white beans, drained and rinsed
1 small head escarole, tough stems removed and roughly chopped
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1/2 cup grated Parmesan

Method -
Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium heat.
Cook the sausage, turning occasionally, until browned and cooked through, about 10 minutes.
Transfer to a cutting board and let rest at least 5 minutes before slicing.
Add onions to the pan and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until soft, about 6 minutes.
Add the wine and broth and bring to a boil. Add the beans, escarole, salt, and pepper and cook, stirring occasionally, until the escarole wilts, 3 minutes.
Spoon into bowls and top with the Parmesan. Serve with the sausage and bread.

Did you notice that bread on the side of the dish. Well that is a Cheese Bread. The recipe is from My Bread: The Revolutionary No Knead Bread Method by Jim Lahey. A perfect addition to tonight's dinner.

Monday, September 3, 2012

Grilled Spiced Chicken, Tomato and Mozzarella, Spinach Salad and Grilled Smashed Potatoes

 
As I was fixing the Tomato and Mozzarella I realized I have not made this all summer. It's not like I have not had a bowl of amazing tomatoes on my kitchen counter all summer long. The tomatoes we have gotten from my Dad's garden have truly been the best tasting in quite some time.

Yes the salad had figs in it. I found a recipe for Fresh Fig & Walnut Salad W/ Lemon Lime Vinaigrette on A Bachelor and His Grill. I made the walnuts, really good! And the dressing, amazing! I put the figs and walnuts on a spinach salad. This was so good.

Now we come the chicken. This one was from RealSimple.com. Chris loves oregano so we were on the right track. It was moist and the paprika gave it a nice bit of spice.

The potaoes were another recipe that I found at the beginning of the summer. It is from Bon Appetit, Grilled Smashed Potatoes. Love them. Wish I made them sooner.



So what did we have for dinner a year ago?
Baked Flounder with Tomato and Basil


So what did we have for dinner 2 years ago?
Homemade Fettuccini with Pancetta and Zucchini

So what did we have for dinner 3 years ago?
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Saturday, September 1, 2012

Stuffed Bacon-Wrapped Chicken Breast and Some Figs...

Lets start at the beginning of the day. I went to my Dad's to do a couple of things and ended up picking OMG a lot of figs. So I brought the figs home and made a fig jam. I found this recipe at Nourish Your Roots. I also picked some raspberries at my Dad's so they were added to the mix. I only used 2 1/2 tablespoons of honey. The result was very nice.  It tastes like more fig than raspberry and it is not too sweet.

Now let's talk about dinner.
I do not know how I found the blog A Bachelor and His Grill. All I know is I am glad I did. This was an amazing dinner. It was a restaurant quality dish.  It came out so tender. The stuffing was delicious. The bacon on the outside of the breast was well it was grilled bacon! Seriously what a meal!
The side dish was from Bon Appetit. Zucchini with Potatoes and Thyme. Yeah 3 of my favorite things in one dish. How can I go wrong!
And dessert! Well last year I made Figs in Syrup or Fichi Sciroppati. And yeah I still have some in the fridge. I put some on Vanilla Ice Cream for dessert. If you have figs make this recipe. You will not be sorry you did!


So what did we have for dinner a year ago?
Hurricane Cooking - Day 5. Chicken Cutlet Sandwiches.

So what did we have for dinner 2 years ago?
Sliders with Cannellini Bean and Spinach Salad 

So what did we have for dinner 3 years ago?