These chili-lime chicken fajitas are made with strips marinated seasoned chicken breast, tossed with vibrant peppers, onions, and wrapped in warm flour tortillas. One of my favorite ways to use peppers and onions from the garden is to make these simple chicken fajitas. This fajita recipe is versatile. You can use any type of peppers…
Recipes
Small Batch Sweet Cherry Jam Recipe
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This chunky, low-sugar cherry jam is delicious slathered on toasted homemade bread, swirled in yogurt, or drizzled over ice cream. Less sugar lets the natural fruit flavor shine. Cherry season is fleeting. Fresh cherries are only available for a short time. Each year, I try to eat my fill, and then capture the delicious, flavor…
Pickled Garlic Scapes Recipe
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Love pickles and garlic? Then you are going to love the flavor of these pickled garlic scapes. Garlic scapes are the flower stalks of hardneck garlic. They have a delicious mild garlic flavor that is delicious pickled. Learn how to preserve garlic scapes by pickling for a delicious, garlicky flavored snack, side dish, or sandwich…
Sweet and Sour Chicken Stir Fry
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Skip the take-out and make this sweet and sour chicken stir fry recipe using fresh cherries, pineapple, and vegetables – No thick breading and no deep-frying. We didn’t have any Chinese restaurants in the small town where I grew up. When I moved to Portland, Maine in my early 20s, I was introduced to American-Chinese…
Sweet and Sour Cherry Sauce
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This sweet and sour cherry sauce recipe can be made from fresh cherries and fresh pineapple or bottled juice. It is delicious as a dip, in stir-fry, or drizzled on chicken, pork, vegetables, noodles, or rice. Cherries are only available for a limited time during the year. When they reach my local grocery store, I…
Creamy New England Fish Chowder
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This classic creamy, New England fish chowder uses simple ingredients and tastes like restaurant quality. Chowders were once considered a poor man’s meal. Today they are elevated to an award-winning food served in fine restaurants. Like most of the cuisines of the world, what we know as New England fish chowder came out of common…
Cheddar Bacon Potato Skins
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Potatoes, bacon, and cheddar cheese are a delicious combination! Enjoy these potato skins as an appetizer, snack, or side dish. Potatoes are back! For many of us, potatoes never left. However, thanks to the recent anti-carb craze, potatoes were deemed as “bad for you” and many gave up eating potatoes all together. Potatoes are one…
Slow Cooker New England Baked Beans
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With a few simple ingredients and time, you can make a delicious, slow cooked New England baked beans dinner. Skip the can and simmer your own homemade baked beans in your crock pot or slow cooker. Just about every culture has their version of a baked bean dish. The Native Americans taught the early settlers how…
Roasted Rosemary Chicken and Vegetables
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This one-pan, roasted rosemary chicken and vegetables recipe is an easy to prep meal bursting with flavor. Something extraordinary occurs when vegetables are roasted. The high heat crisps up the outside of the vegetables and locks in their natural flavor. Then that flavor transforms, sweetens and intensifies as it roasts. I usually make different variations…
Chili-Lime Beef Steak Fajitas
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These sizzling beef steak fajitas are made with strips of steak infused with a flavorful chili-lime marinade, combined with colorful peppers, onions, and folded into a warm tortilla. This is my take on the Southwestern inspired beef fajitas. Although it is wonderful with fresh ingredients, this is also one of my favorite ways to use…
Rena’s Soft Molasses Cookies
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Don’t let the plain appearance of these soft molasses cookies fool you. One bite will tingle your taste buds with the warm flavors of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and molasses. Many of us have warm memories of food and family around the holidays. Especially as we grow older and have children of our own. I cannot…