Weekend Recipe Warrior

Today's been a really long rainy day so I'm gonna get right to it, what's on the menu for dinner... Tonight we had grilled ribeye's (med rare) topped with grilled mushrooms in herb butter and a side of campfire potatoes! Herb Butter 1 stick softened butter Herbs of your choice ...I used 1/2 tablespoon thyme and basil and 1 tsp of sage. You can use as much or as little as you like. If you love summer grillin' as much as I do, post some of your grillin' pics! Got a great side dish to go with it, post your recipe to share 😋. Come back and see me tomorrow! We're having delicious Beef Lettuce Wraps!!

Hope everyone had as great of a weekend as I did! It was such a beautiful day outside that it made me think back to my childhood and our fun family camping trips.  This brought back memories of an amazing campfire dish my mom used to cook. She called it Campfire Potatoes.  The recipe is so delicious and easy that we still make it 40 years later (ok, I'm not a spring chicken...). I think the best thing about this recipe is you can use any ingredients you choose. There are no measurements because you decide how much of each item you want to use. The recipe I use is below, but keep in mind you can use any ingredients you choose!!  Campfire Potatoes 6 large butter potatoes (I like the taste if these potatoes the best but you can use any potato) 12 pats of butter (I made 4 packets with 3 pats in each) bacon bits minced onions salt pepper 8 pieces of the precut foil (use can use regular foil and cut into 8.5"x11") 1. Clean potato...

Happy Saturday! Today I spent most of the day with my son and his girlfriend. We tried a new spot for brunch and it was great! It's called Snooze on 38th and Lamar. The wait was pretty long, about an hour and 10 minutes, but the food and friendly staff made the wait worth while! After filling up on some of the best pancakes I have ever had, and doing a little shopping at Kendra Scott, we headed back home. After such a great meal, I decided to brush up on my brulee skills. After only two crème brulee, I figured it out. Here's what I learned...use only a little sugar to cover the top, keep the torch on low, move the dish around as you torch the sugar and use a circular motion when going over the sugar with the torch. Below are the results...what do you think? After Practice Before Practice  

I hope you all are having a great Friday night!! Just got back from the grocery store after planning the menu for next week. Gonna be a busy cooking weekend. I had a request to post the chicken lettuce wrap recipe so I'll be making that and posting this weekend. Also on the menu, is grilled ribeye steak with mushrooms and a garlic herb butter sauce, red argentine shrimp in a white wine sauce with grits, spicy grilled pork chops with parmesan spaghetti squash, chocolate covered cherries (for a friend at work who just had her birthday) and a new recipe, Collin Street Bakery Cherry Ice Box cookies (these are soooo yummy). I think I may even give the  vanilla crème brulee another try. My first try a few weeks ago (pics shown below) wasn't too bad. The vanilla crème came out amazing but I have to work on my brulee skills as you can see  😉 . Better keep the phone close by just in case I have to call the fire dept! 🚒 This is going to be a gr...

I took the night off from cooking. Yes, I actually had leftovers from last nights Orange Beef! It's even better the second day!!  Tonight, I thought I'd tell you about an amazing product that I 💖💖💖 . It's HEB Sunflower Oil with Garlic and Herbs . You will find it in the baking aisle, by the flavored oils, of your local HEB. It's great for marinades, for dipping bread and for sautéing. A friend at work told me about it about it last year and I now stock pile it in my pantry!!!  Last week I used it to marinade my ribeye's before I grilled them. I seasoned the steak with some garlic powder, onion powder and pepper (sometimes I use Adam's Reserve Spicy House All Purpose Rub), poured the sunflower oil in a gallon Ziploc bag, put the steaks in the bag, sealed it and placed the bag in the fridge. After about an hour or so, I took steaks out and grilled them until medium rare on the grill. The taste in unbelievable!!! Next time you bak...

If I do cook on a weekday, which isn't too often, I love an easy delicious recipe. Tonight's dinner is an amazing  Orange Beef  recipe that I found online.  This meal takes less than an hour and can be made in one pan for easy clean up. I have made it several times now and can't ever seem to make enough to have leftovers for lunch the next day!! I normally tweak the recipe a bit to my taste. I love the orange flavor so I double the orange rind and juice. Because I use more orange juice, I cut the brown sugar in half and the sauce comes out AMAZING!!! This recipe goes great with some broccoli and steamed brown rice. I hope your family enjoys this recipe as much as mine does!! 🙂 💖 🍊 NY Times Orange Beef FOR THE SAUCE: 1   tablespoon neutral oil – I use Avocado Oil 1   1 1/2-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and minced 2 jalapeño peppers, seeded and minced 2   tablespoons orange zest, plus the juice of one orange...