This pot roast recipe is super easy to make and, as the title implies, crazy good. No fussing over the stove or oven bags or braising. Best of all it utilizes trip tip, which is a good, lean meat. This can be cooked in a much smaller quantity of course, but I was feeding a … Continue reading
“Bacon wrapped chicken breast. Two ingredients. So delicious.” This quote is from our sister and favorite guest blogger, Theresa. We love that she loves to share her recipes with us! We hope you enjoy this one! Cross 6 slices of center cut, thin sliced bacon into a basket-like weave. Place a boneless, skinless, thin sliced … Continue reading
![Shrimp Scampi Bruschetta Pizza – Happy Pi[e] Day!](https://cookplantmeditate.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/img_0661.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "Shrimp Scampi Bruschetta Pizza – Happy Pi[e] Day!")
Happy Pi day! Okay, so maybe this isn’t the kind of “pi” people are expecting but here at CPM, we LOVE our pies/pis. And, I could seriously eat 3.14 of these a week. This pizza sports some of my absolute favorite flavors, combined in one of my favorite dishes – Pi. And this Pi hits … Continue reading
If you’re making this, I won’t apologize for the heartburn you’re about to receive. It will be similar to the heartburn you had on thanksgiving. This year, I only had small amounts of each item leftover (except for dessert, of course). I was talking to my sister and she said that she was making turkey … Continue reading
If you’ve never had coconut green curry, I’m going to warn you right now – it’s totally addictive! Even my 11 year-old is hooked! She recently requested that I make another batch just for her to take for lunches this week. Good thing this dish, start to finish, including rice, cooks up in about 20 … Continue reading
In the last shipment I received of our brother Anthony’s gorgeous smoked salmon, he also included a sample package of a perfectly smoked Cajun specialty I hadn’t had before – Tasso Ham. Wow! Where was this all my life?!? Smoky, spicy and, when sliced thinly, it is reminiscent of a spiced prosciutto. Gorgeous! While perfect by itself, those … Continue reading
When I was 12 or 13 I decided to cook dinner one night for the family. I’d been eyeballing a recipe off the back of a Rice-A-Roni box. It was some sort of Mexican Chicken Rice. I can’t lie – the family was less than impressed as, while the chicken was cooked, the rice was … Continue reading
