Grilled Lemon Garlic Chicken
Churrasco is a Brazilian barbecue technique that involves cooking meat on long metal skewers over high heat. The meat is typically only seasoned with salt which allows the natural flavors of…
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Brazilian Black Bean Stew
This year on our live broadcast cooking show, The Davises Eats, Chili and I decided to traverse the globe and share the flavors of some favorite cuisines. More importantly, we…
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Use Leftover Roast for German Frikadellen
Similar to our American hamburgers, German frikadellen are flat and pan fried. They are also a close cousin to our meatloaf because they have a variety of herbs and spices…
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How to Make Bubble Pizza with Biscuits
Bubble pizza is one of those meals from childhood that you just need in your life sometimes. Its simplicity makes it a quick weeknight meal and you can customize it…
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Chicken Pot Pie with Biscuits
One of my favorite foods is chicken pot pie. Not because of the pie itself, but because I love the creamy rich chicken filling. Truth be told, I don’t like…
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Canning Day at Grandma’s House
My Grandma Raines and her kitchen have a very special place in my heart… and stomach! I could tell you multiple stories about her cooking and our time spent picking…
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Wild Game and Root Vegetables
I have always enjoyed participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge. This year, I’m putting a food heritage spin on the 2020 themes and writing monthly…
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Today in 1920: Mrs. Wilson’s Cheese Sauce
Have you ever wondered what we ate 100 years ago? These loaded twice baked potatoes are topped with a gooey cheese sauce remade from a frugal 1920 recipe.
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Cooking Shrimp Jambalaya with Mme. Bégué
Many years ago, I ran across the Antique American Cookbooks collection printed by Oxmoor House in 1984 when I discovered one of the eight volumes in a resale shop. Since…
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Egg Salad is Old-fashioned Good Eats
Egg salad is not fancy or aristocratic. It’s not sexy nor is it particularly attractive. Classic egg salad is yellow and served on white bread, and it is my all-time…
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Pork Burgers with Grilled Pineapple
Oink, Oink! I get tired of the good ole fashioned hamburger … we eat a lot of them in the summer. No matter how much I love them, I like to…
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Slow Cooker Italian Beef or Venison
Slow cooker Italian beef is the perfect meal this time of year. It’s comfort food that feeds a family with plenty left over. Autumn in southern Illinois is when Mother Nature…
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Vegetable Beef Soup
Waste not, want not. I learned this lesson well! Every time I make Italian beef, I use the leftover broth to make vegetable beef soup. It’s a great way to…
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Chili’s Favorite Hot Chili
Chili has been a staple in my life for as long as I can remember. Every September, as soon as the temperature hit the mid 60s, my dad would whip…
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Chili’s Hot Chili
This is a simple chili recipe that will feed a crowd, or family with some leftover!
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Roasted Cornish Game Hens
It was HOT yesterday … a typical hot and humid sunny Southern Illinois summer day … ewe. Summer time usually means I migrate from oven cooking to grill cooking…
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Weeknight Beef Stroganoff
It’s been raining here for seemingly weeks! I shouldn’t complain, I’d rather have rain than snow, but it definitely puts me in comfort food mode. Beef Stroganoff is one…
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Crock-Pot Roast Beef
I love my Crock-pot. I suppose I could live without it if I had to, but it makes life so much easier on busy week days. Unlike a lot of folks…
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Chicken Tostadas
I’m always trying new recipes in my pressure cooker. Some turn out really great, while others just barely pass … but I’m slightly picky about food quality. My shredded Chipotle chicken idea…
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Family Favorite Tuna Casserole
This has been a bit of a rough week for Noodle … and Mom, here, always runs toward comfort food for dinner on those really bad days. Enter, tuna casserole….
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Friday Night Pizza and Movie
Sometimes the smallest of things turn out to be the most remembered traditions. When I was growing up, one of the things my dad and I shared a love…
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Simply Savory Pork Roast
I love pork! I really don’t have to say much more than that! One of my favorite weekend dinners is roasted pork loin. It is easy and can stretch it…
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My take on Ree’s Braised Beef Brisket: Venison Roast
I have greatly enjoyed watching Ree Drummond’s The Pioneer Woman show over the years. I ran across her blog several years ago not realizing she had a new TV show…
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Peppercorn Venison Tenderloin
By some grace of a higher power, I was able to catch The Pioneer Woman while the show was actually airing on the Food Network over the weekend … I usually…
