Recipes

Lazy weeknight bibimbap. For when you have ground beef that you don't know what to do with and you want something besides meat sauce.

Warm spices flavor the rice, lentils, pasta, and chickpeas in this traditional Egyptian dish. It makes A LOT.

This is similar to the KFC chicken recipe but it uses a shorter list of spices for when you don't want to dig out 10 different spices.

There's a lot of mac and cheese recipes out there but this one is my new go to.

Mardi Gras ‘26 we baked a silicone cat into the cake instead of the traditional baby figurine.

Very good pantry recipe from Rachel.

Ponyo, Ponyo, Ponyo, fishy in the sea
Tiny little fishy, who could you really be?
Ponyo, Ponyo, Ponyo, magic sets you free
Oh, she's a little girl with a round tummy

Summer coffee vice. Mix with moka pot coffee and milk for an iced latte.

A rice, lentil, and crispy onion comfort dish.

I really wanted to get John one of those PAZ egg dyeing kits that we used as kids but I couldn't find any. This turned out to be just as fun!

Easy one pan lemon garlic chicken with lots of nice pan sauce.

These are so soft! Don't forget the sprinkle of salt on top.

Up your pita game by making your own: these pitas are light, airy, and pillowy and are the perfect spongy vehicles to stuff, tear, mop, and scoop—making the whole eating experience really very satisfying.

Make some in the fall and use it for spiced butter, pumpkin pie, or drinks.

John’s most requested meal, “chicken with the sweet sauce”.

These beans were a Christmas gift to me and they are so fun to cook up! They look even bigger than a lima bean but taste nothing like one.

Eggy yumminess.

The chickpeas get a little crispy and they’re wonderful.

A yummy chicken dish with a garlic cream sauce. Add a veggie side that can soak up the sauce.

Much like gingerbread cookies but less spicy.

This is like the one they serve at the St. Patrick’s gingerbread festival.

Rachel gave me this one. Serve it over Greek yogurt.

One summer in Collinsville the garden was overflowing with cherry tomatoes and cucumbers, so we ate this salad for lunch every other day.

Trying to duplicate the Chicken Raam from Green Papaya.