Savory

Everything but….

March 15, 2013 by Peabody · 1 Comment

Happy Friday all...just a quick post (with recipe!) to tell you that the random chosen winner of the Harry and David Gift Basket was Stephanie who wrote: "I’m going to have to go with probably the most common answer – Cadbury creme eggs. Oh and Reese’s eggs." She has already been notified and I give a heartfelt congrats to her. If you didn't win you never know what will be given away next on here so you could always have a chance. :) This isn't a peanut butter cup recipe but it does have peanut butter in it and it's a great throw together weeknight meal. You can use any pasta shape you want but penne was all I had at the time. If you are vegetarian you can easily leave out the chicken. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: It's What's For Dinner, Pasta, peanut butter, Savory · Tagged With: Americanized Thai Food, peanut butter, weeknight dinner

Everyday eats…

February 14, 2013 by Peabody · 11 Comments

So often at your favorite BBQ place they offer mac and cheese as a side dish to go with your meal. I always get a pulled pork sandwich and sometimes my side is mac and cheese. One day when the two mixed I decided why not just throw them together the next time I make mac and cheese? So I did. I didn’t plan on putting this up on the blog. It was just a weeknight meal. Yes it’s another mac and cheese recipe. But the teens eat mac and cheese so we make a lot of it in a lot of different ways. Apparently people want to see those ways according to Instagram when I posted it and the emails that I got asking if I was going to share the recipe. So I need to get better about realizing that my week day meals are probably interesting to some people. This is big and it does feed a lot of people. It feed four of us and still had half a pan for MDP to take to work so that his co-workers can love me on Valentine’s Day as well. :) There really isn’t much to say about this. It’s BBQ pulled … [Read more...]

Filed Under: It's What's For Dinner, Savory · Tagged With: Mac and Cheese, Pulled Pork

Got Crabs?

February 10, 2013 by Peabody · 8 Comments

So I will admit that ever since Kristen packed her knives and went I have been not as interested in Top Chef Seattle. I’m happy that she is still kicking butt in Last Chance Kitchen but I’m bitter about it all the same. Like bad arugula bitter. If she doesn’t win I guess I will be routing for Josh because of how much he likes and uses bacon. This last week they left Seattle (boo and lame) and went to Alaska. They had to use Alaskan king crab to make something for the quick fire. While we can get king crab fairly easily around here most of us go for Dungeness because it’s from our reign and therefore more economical. We have a local place that makes Lobster Mac and Cheese and that inspired this Crab Mac and Cheese I made quite a while a go over on Northwest Noshings. It was popular over there so I thought in honor of the quick fire challenge I would feature it here. It would be equally great with king crab I am quite sure…or whatever crab you have around your parts. Try … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Northwest Noshings, Savory, Top Chef Seattle · Tagged With: crab, Mac and Cheese, Top Chef Seattle

Pull it together…

February 8, 2013 by Peabody · 9 Comments

So I had planned on writing some great post and that didn’t happen. Instead I went to work on a project for Tablespoon but clearly didn’t not think things through because I needed to open a jar of jam. Which sounds harmless enough except that it’s like THE number one thing I can’t do with my hand and I learned I have not mastered opening with the left hand. So for 40 minutes I attempted to open a jar (don’t worry MDP is already going an buying me an opener) and even though I finally got it open when I went to get the loaf pans and they weren’t there I just sort of sunk to the kitchen floor and bawled my eyes out (the loaf pans were not there because MDP was being a helper and washed them and put them away…just not where they go. :) I’m sure some of you can relate to that). The dog came and licked me and gave me the “hey crazy crying lady you are going to give me a snack later for being nice right?” And with that I heard my mother’s voice in my head saying … [Read more...]

Filed Under: appetizer, Savory, Snack Food · Tagged With: Ale, Bacon, Cheddar, spread/dip