American
Braised pork with apples and rosemary
I wanted to make something that was very Autumnal and so I started looking up pork and apple recipes. Almost all of them called for cinnamon and sounded foul, so I came up with this which I wanted to be more balanced. It turned out better than expected so I figured I’d write it up. […]
Mushroom Onion Pot Roast
This is a really easy slow cooker pot roast that doesn’t take much time to prepare, and is easy to get going when you leave to work. The most labor intensive part is skinning the onions, but our local grocery store often has them pre-skinned. Ingredients 2-3 pound beef roast (we like London broil a […]
Spicy Slow Cooker Butternut Squash and Chicken Chili
I adapted this from a recipe found in the winter issue of Progressive Farmer, a magazine to which we subscribe and is full of interesting tidbits and arcane information. It caught my eye, as it was the strangest combination of ingredients I’ve ever seen and couldn’t imagine how it would taste. Always looking for more […]
Sweet and Savory Crockpot Roast
This recipe is really simple and easy to make, but shockingly delicious – the first time I made it I was trying for something that wasn’t too much like American Chinese food but still had elements of sweet and savory. I was surprised how balanced it turned out. It’s not overly sweet, nor is it […]
Miele Steam Oven Pulled Pork
I’ve been debating whether I should post some of these more niche recipes–now that we have a steam oven and a high powered stove, I am making recipes that not everyone can reproduce with other equipment. I’ve decided to post some of them 1) for my own records, and 2) because there are very few […]
Fluffy Mashed Potatoes
Some recipes are so elemental that I do not think of including them on this blog. However, our family keeps growing and we must spread the basic cooking knowledge that we Magidows take for granted to the newer members of our flock. Hence, a step-by-step recipe for fluffy mashed potatoes, which Dan has been called […]
Easy Berry Tart
I was invited to a dinner party with rather short notice, and asked to make dessert, which isn’t really my specialty. Luckily, I got this ginormous, very British cookbook “1000 Classic Recipes” for $2 at a book sale. Being British, probably half the recipes are for cakes, pies or tarts, and flipping through I found […]
Crockpot Pulled Pork
I finally figured out the key to good crockpot pulled pork–ignore 90% of the recipes out there and don’t add the BBQ sauce until the end. In fact, doing it this way you could go full Southern style and not add BBQ sauce at all. If you add the sauce at the beginning it winds […]
Sausage Potato Bake
So this isn’t really a recipe of our own so much as a link, since Melanie and I don’t change the recipe at all, let alone enough to justify reposting it. We did use some herbs de provence last time, which was nice too. This is one of those really simple one-dish meals that turns […]