Tag: Comfort Food

Wild Mushroom Lasagna with Zippy Sicilian Flair

Wild Mushroom Lasagna with Zippy Sicilian Flair

This Wild Mushroom Lasagna is layered with rich umami, garlic, creamy cheeses, and our signature Zippy Sicilian Marinara for a dish that’s as romantic as it is comforting. Born from a cryptic magazine clipping but perfected in our kitchen, it’s a love story in every bite.

Soft Tacos Like Mom Made (Simple Comfort Food)

Soft Tacos Like Mom Made (Simple Comfort Food)

These soft tacos were one of Mom’s go-to comfort food recipes—and they’ve stood the test of time. With a tangy, beany, savory filling and just the right amount of spice, they’re simple, satisfying, and endlessly versatile.

Updating Dad’s Recipe: The Best Basic Sausage Breakfast Casserole

Updating Dad’s Recipe: The Best Basic Sausage Breakfast Casserole

This dish is squarely in the great-tasting but not gourmet category, comfort food that’s more assembly than cooking and comes together in less than 30 minutes. I promise you’ll have happy campers of every age when you serve it.

Meaty Chile Con Queso: a Fabulous Recipe

Meaty Chile Con Queso: a Fabulous Recipe

This queso is comfort food – recognizable, memory-conjuring, soul-satisfying, amazingly good. Dip a chip and revisit your childhood!

Brrr! Make This Hearty Zippy Sicilian Vegetable Soup to Keep Warm!

Brrr! Make This Hearty Zippy Sicilian Vegetable Soup to Keep Warm!

A warming winter soup with a variety of vegetables and smoked ham hocks, with a kick from our Zippy Sicilian.

Nancy’s Awesome and Easy Homemade Bread – No Kneading!

Nancy’s Awesome and Easy Homemade Bread – No Kneading!

An heirloom Sally Lunn bread recipe, updated for today, brings golden-brown brioche-like goodness to your table in less than three hours, with no kneading. You need this recipe!

Nacho Basics: Easy Steps for Creating Crunchy, Cheesy Goodness You Can Eat with Your Hands

Nacho Basics: Easy Steps for Creating Crunchy, Cheesy Goodness You Can Eat with Your Hands

You can go to nacho heaven with these basic steps, and put together a really fast – and really satisfying dinner. I do it all the time, and no one has EVER said, “What? Nachos AGAIN?”

June was a Flurry and Now I’m Headed to Copenhagen – But First, Comfort Food!

June was a Flurry and Now I’m Headed to Copenhagen – But First, Comfort Food!

Here’s the Glover Gardens grilled chicken wings recipe, served up with reflections on how June sped by… as well as anticipation of an upcoming trip to Copenhagen and Amsterdam. I had pre-travel comfort food cravings and perhaps a little nostalgia about missing traditional 4th of July backyard barbeques while traveling.

Marinara Recipe: This is the Go-To Standard (AKA will you marinara me?)

Marinara Recipe: This is the Go-To Standard (AKA will you marinara me?)

A recipe for simple, rustic, absolutely pleasing, comfort-food-at-its-best marinara sauce: deep red, redolent with garlic, made brighter with basil, reminiscent of summer.

Glover Gardens Pulled Pork Makes Great “Trash Can Nachos”

Glover Gardens Pulled Pork Makes Great “Trash Can Nachos”

A party-party weekend at Glover Gardens was the perfect excuse for Trash Can Nachos and other non-fancy comfort food.

Comfort Food Alert – A New Frontier (for Us)

Comfort Food Alert – A New Frontier (for Us)

In Albuquerque for a wedding, we wanted to eat somewhere really, really unique and local. Frontier Restaurant scratched that itch.

Can the Grill-Meister Top Last Wednesday’s Sandwich, a Turkey Patty Melt Panini?

Can the Grill-Meister Top Last Wednesday’s Sandwich, a Turkey Patty Melt Panini?

Warming and hearty with deep, rich flavors, the Turkey Patty Melt Panini is perfect for a damp winter evening.

Simple, Classic Deviled Eggs, Because You Know You Want Them

Simple, Classic Deviled Eggs, Because You Know You Want Them

The Glover Gardens recipe for classic deviled eggs, created by Kim of Glover Gardens and niece Joie and tested and approved by The Grill-Meister.

Nothing Smells More Like Spring Than Crepes

Nothing Smells More Like Spring Than Crepes

Let’s step back in time, to a weekday in April of 2017, and together experience my lunch and subsequent walk to one of our offices in the outskirts of Paris.

It’s Cold! Here’s a Chicken and Dumplings Go-To Recipe

It’s Cold! Here’s a Chicken and Dumplings Go-To Recipe

I learned to make Chicken and Dumplings from a stellar recipe in Epicurious that was recommended by a colleague. Winter demands comfort food!

Breaking Radio Silence

Breaking Radio Silence

Physical isolation and all of the uncertainty brought about by Covid-19’s impact to our entire existence is the new normal, and it’s time to rejoin the social world.

Coffee Shop Comfort Food During the Holidays

Coffee Shop Comfort Food During the Holidays

Lunch at a retro diner combats Fancy Food Fatigue during the holidays.

Giant Pork Dish and Spaetzle Made with Love by the German Cousins

Giant Pork Dish and Spaetzle Made with Love by the German Cousins

A giant pork chop with homemade spaetzle served on vintage Corelle dishes proves once again that Food is Love.

Back to Work and Healthy Eating

Back to Work and Healthy Eating

Are you like me? I love the holidays but don’t mind when they’re over…one can only have so much rich food and fun, right? I feel like it would take an austerity program for a few weeks to balance everything out. So our “back to…

Found Recipe: Garlic Herb Butter French Bread

Found Recipe: Garlic Herb Butter French Bread

A recipe from another blogger that NAILS garlic bread.