This recipe for Chicken Pie is time consuming, but well worth it. Simmering the vegetables in broth and then later building a sauce with that veggie-infused broth makes for a very flavorful dish. Without the traditional cream-based sauce of chicken pot pie, this freezes very well. So make double!
4 cups low-sodium [...]
Nothing says “fall” like the smell of baking things with apples. Apple pie, apple crisp, apple compote, anything. The bad news is that they are all full of fat and sugar, you just can’t go right with flaky pie crust or cripsy oatmeal topping. But you CAN go right with homemade spicy [...]
This is a great recipe for cheddar cheese fondue, but it’s also a great basic creamy cheese sauce that can be repurposed for lots of things – adding in veggies, pasta topping, etc.
Ingredients:
3 tbsp butter3 tbsp flour1/2 tsp salt1/2 tsp cracked pepper2 cups milk2 cups shredded cheddar
Melt butter, stir in flour, salt, and [...]
My ultimate winter comfort food is spicy black beans and rice. Sometimes I soak beans overnight and spice them myself, sometimes in a pinch I use a box of spicy beans and rice, but it’s always good. Tiny cubes of cheese and a dollop of sour cream round everything off.
Everyone always needs an excellent homemade mac and cheese recipe, it’s just that kind of comfort food. This one is my favorite. Originally passed to me by a friend, I stared in abject horror at the ingredient list when I saw that it containted Velveeta. I was sure that I would never [...]
Boy, this one is decadent soup – an attack on the blood sugar and on the arteries all in one. But for an occasional (read: annual) treat, I have found this particular recipe to be unsurpassed.
Potato and Cheese Soup
6 large potatoes, peeled and quartered2 medium carrots, peeled and sliced1 medium onion, quartered1 (14-ounce) [...]
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