Sometimes I crave blue cheese. Seriously. It’s all I want, and I can’t be happy until I have a taste. This particular day I purchased an amazing local blue goat cheese. As soon as I saw it, nothing else would suffice. Blue goat cheese? Yes, please!
Tag: wine
Mushroom Puff Pastry Tarts
Sometimes I feel lazy. Yup. I said it. Lazy. I don’t feel like cooking much; but I don’t feel like going out, either. I just want to sit at home with a giant glass of wine, enjoy life, and eat mushroom puff pastry tarts. What? That’s weird? hmmph. Puff pastry is one of my favorite […]
Wild Mushroom and Marjoram Chicken
I started my morning off with a trip to the dentist. It’s not the most pleasant way to begin the day and truthfully I had no idea that I even had an appointment. There was some sort of a mix up at the office—they thought Piyush had an appointment at 7am, so they called […]
Braised Pheasant with Red Cabbage and Wild Rice
I come from a family who loves to hunt for their food. Saturdays and Sundays during the fall were spent walking the fields around SE Minnesota, with dogs in tow, trying to flush out birds. …Pheasants, to be exact. I never really enjoyed hunting and only went with a few times (I never actually carried […]
Coq Au Vin
Today I was craving Coq Au Vin. I’m not really sure why I was craving it, because I’ve never actually had it before. It just sounded good. The weather has been dreary so something slow cooked sounded amazing. I knew I wanted to use chicken and some veggies, but I didn’t want a hotdish or […]