Tag Archives | Special Occasion

Roasted Butter Chicken

Only 4 ingredients: Chicken, butter, salt and pepper.  The perfection of this roasted chicken isn’t hours of brining or fantastic, or even exotic ingredients and seasonings, it’s the cooking method and the butter.  Oh my, what the butter does to this chicken.  The butter transforms a regular chicken into a super succulent, super moist meat […]

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Pierno De Puerco Rellena

Meet the cook, my husband McGyver. One of my goals this year was to “let go”, in other words, get out of the kitchen and let McGyver cook (he knows how too, quite well in fact).  McGyver has been chomping at the bit to make me one his specialty dishes he used to make all […]

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Perfect Prime Rib Instructions

Tired of Turkey and Ham?  Didn’t get a chance to indulge yourself at Christmas?  Start the New Year right with a Prime Rib Roast.  I’m talking about the king of roasts here.  The beauty of a prime rib roast is how easy it is to make.  The only way you are going to mess up […]

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Steak au Poivre

Dear sweet and thoughtful Chantel loaned me one of her favorite cookbooks.  Chantel hails from Belgium;she grew up with heavy French, Dutch and German influences (lucky girl).  Chantel is also an outstanding cook, and I am  honored that she is sharing one of her favorite cookbooks.  I read the book cover to cover, and couldn’t wait […]

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