Wondering what to make for lunch today, I decided on a grilled Havarti sandwich. To the Havarti, I chose to add diced green chiles and a quarter of a sliced apple. I love to add an apple to my sandwich … something about that added crunch just does it for me. The diced green chiles…
Author: Sunshine and Savory
I love when my house is filled with people, having friends and family over for a meal feeds my soul. There is nothing I enjoy more than preparing for a dinner party, a holiday dinner, or a book club meeting when it's my turn to host ... If I could, I would own a Bed and Breakfast! This would ensure I'd always have someone to prepare a meal for. Being with others and sharing my table is what I look forward to most. I was born in Wisconsin and after I got married in 1987, my husband and I moved west for his job. He had just graduated college and we were married a couple months later. An interesting tidbit about me is that I never cooked a meal before I got married. I taught myself how to cook and found that I really enjoyed it. One of the first meals I made after we were married was a shrimp pasta dish. I made this for myself when my husband was on business travel and I had so much fun inventing this meal - this was the start of my love of cooking. My favorite celebrity chefs are Ina Garten and The Pioneer Woman. I hope you enjoy my blog!
Cinnamon Chile Sweet Potato Wedges
If I have a choice between a sweet potato fries and regular fries, I always choose sweet potato fries. I do love all potatoes, but there just seems to be so much more flavor naturally in a sweet potato. I was making a pork tenderloin for dinner tonight and Dennis asked if we could have…
Grilled Rosemary Jalapeño Turkey Burgers
When deciding on our menus for the week this past weekend, my daughter asked if we could have burgers one night. Tonight was that night and I prepared regular beef burgers for her and turkey burgers for Dennis and me. For the turkey burgers, I decided to use fresh rosemary that I had in the…
Egg White, Tomato, Turkey Bacon and Goat Cheese Breakfast Scramble
This morning for breakfast, I decided to make an egg white scramble. I started by tossing several grape tomatoes into my non-stick skillet until they started to “pop”. Once they started to “pop”, I lightly smashed them with back of a wooden spoon. Once they had cooked a couple minutes, I poured my egg whites…
A Sheet Pan (or Two) Dinner
Dennis and I haven’t had sweet Italian chicken sausages in a few weeks and we both had a hankering for them for dinner last night. I chose to bake them in the oven at the same time I’d be baking a sheet pan loaded with small yellow Dutch potatoes, sweet onion and red pepper. This…
Summer Salad
It’s been beautiful in San Diego this week, even a little on the warm side if you are inland a bit. Since it’s been so nice and sunny (what happened to “June Gloom” this year?), I was craving a salad for dinner. I knew I wanted roasted chicken in my salad and fresh strawberries. I…
Tuna Steaks with Grilled Radicchio Salad
My husband, Dennis, has been asking for fish more in the last couple weeks than he has in our almost 31 years of marriage. He’s following a fitness program put on by a retired Navy Seal, in which they are asked to eat certain food types and give up others during certain weeks of the…
Swordfish with Pesto
I spent today at the County Courthouse downtown for jury duty. They must have liked me because I’ll be going back tomorrow, all the way through Monday. I’m glad I bought swordfish for tonight’s dinner because, not only does it cooks relatively quickly, we can eat healthy as well. I haven’t worked outside the home…
Chicken Thighs with Green Olives
Dennis and I were at Barnes & Noble yesterday when he stopped to look at an issue of Men’s Health magazine. He was looking through the recipes and saw a recipe for chicken with green olives and mandarin oranges and asked if I could make something like that for dinner. I said, absolutely, but don’t…
Cod with Lemon, Basil and Kalamata Olives
Who doesn’t love summer? There are so many reasons to love summer … reading on the porch or the patio, days spent at the beach, barbecues with family and friends, warmer weather, the county fairs across the country. I could go on and on. One of the many reasons I love summer is for the…
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