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Award Winning Chili Con Carne Recipe. How to Make Pesto like an Italian Grandmother Recipe. If you've ever tasted pesto in Italy you know that the pesto here in the United States just isn't the same.

How to Make Pesto like an Italian Grandmother Recipe

I received a lesson in how to make pesto from a real Italian grandmother last week and now I understand the difference and what makes it so. My friend Francesca makes the trip from her small town near the pesto-epicenter of Genoa, Italy to San Francisco once or twice a year - this time (lucky for us) she brought her mom and two-year old son Mattia. Her mom makes a beautiful pesto (and perfectly light, potato gnocchi to go along with it) and offered to show me and my friend Jen how it is done. I have to say, I'll never look back, and will never make pesto any other way. If you love pesto, you really have to try this. Most of the pesto you encounter here in the U.S. is different for a few reasons. Another thing, Genovese pesto is famous in part because it is often made with young, small basil leaves.

Book signings & sightings! Makes about 1 cup. Tilapia In Green Chile Sauce With Coconut Lime Rice. With the new year, come the new resolutions!

Tilapia In Green Chile Sauce With Coconut Lime Rice

Resolving to be more fit, cook healthier meals is never a bad idea any time of the year. This past year has been a true food adventure for me! I have cooked and tried so many new foods and cooking techniques I have had the most fun documenting my adventures. If you follow my recipes, you will know two things about me. I love rice, almost as much as I love chile peppers!! Yields 4 servings Ingredients: For the Green Chile Sauce: 6 roasted Anaheim chiles, peeled and cleaned 4 tablespoons water 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon honey 1 clove garlic, sliced ½ teaspoon cumin Salt ½ cup chicken broth or white wine, reserved For the Coconut Rice: 2 cups coconut water ½ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon sugar 1 cup jasmine rice ¼ cup green onions, sliced ¼ cup cilantro, chopped 1 serrano chile, minced (seeds removed, optional) Juice of 1 large key lime I have tried different methods for roasting peppers, but I always go back to the way my Mom taught me.

Blackened Tilapia Tacos Topped With Chayote-Tomatillo Salsa & Light Chipotle Crema. I know I have mentioned this before, but my Mom did not cook a lot of fish while we were growing up.

Blackened Tilapia Tacos Topped With Chayote-Tomatillo Salsa & Light Chipotle Crema

For years, after I was married I was always afraid to cook fresh fish. As I prepared this lunch for my husband and I today, I just happened to get a call from my youngest brother Eric. We got to talking and when I told him I was preparing fish he reminded me why I was so afraid to cook fish!! My Mom only really cooked fish during the time of Lent. It was always prepared with simple seasoning and pan seared. Yields 8 tacos Ingredients: For the Blackened Tilapia: 4 6-ounce fillets 1 tablespoon chile ancho powder 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon onion powder 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika 1/2 teaspoon cumin 1/2 teaspoon pepper 1/2 teaspoon chipotle powder Juice of 1 lime 2 tablespoons olive oil, plus more for cooking.

Leftover Mashed Potato Pancakes Recipe - Food.com - 9054. Cancel TOP Filters What's in Your Fridge?

Leftover Mashed Potato Pancakes Recipe - Food.com - 9054

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Banana Split Birthday Cake!

When we didn't decide to go full-piggly and get a massive, eat-it-and-its-free style ice cream platter between the three of us, he would order the next best thing: a banana split. Did I mention that he is lactose intolerant, has cold-sensitive teeth, and was ALLERGIC TO BANANAS??? What kind of special self-punishment took place in that humble dessert parlour every other Friday night or so? That is some SAW III style stuff right there. He recently got an allergy test and it was discovered that his adverse reaction to banana has apparently disappeared, so when it came to his birthday last week, I knew exactly what I had to make: a banana split morphed into a cake. This is a wonderful, light and moist banana cake (not the same as banana bread!) Mini Black Bean Cakes with Carnitas and Avocado Recipe. Jack In The Box Copycat Taco Sauce Recipe - Food.com - 423994.

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