Mr. Tipsy has been suggesting this for dinner for years. It always sounded so weird to me and I couldn’t understand why he kept asking me to make it. I come to find out, after more than a decade together, that this is a dish his Mom used to make for him. His Mom is no longer with us, but her food was a legacy she left us. Before she passed she gave me her cookbook bible, the one you slip all the recipes you cut out of magazines and the ones you ask friends for that are written on…
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Continue ReadingThis is an old school recipe that I think needs to be brought back in style. It is easy, it is affordable and it is perfect for Fall. I can’t think of many people who wouldn’t love a savory dish of Fried Pork Chops with Apples and Onions. I anticipated that this recipe would take me a lot longer than it did. In fact, I think these Fried Pork Chops with Apples and Onions were on my table from start to finish in thirty minutes or less. You will need a few ingredients for this recipe, but most you should…
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Continue ReadingA Big Mac is the best isn’t it? But who needs all that extra bread. Not to mention that whenever we do splurge on McDonald’s it just doesn’t taste that great anymore. Except the Coca-Cola, why is it so good at McDonald’s?! Mr. Tipsy tries to eat low carb when he can so I decided to challenge myself with recreating the Big Mac at home with no/low carbs. I took all my favorite parts of a Big Mac and created these Big Mac Meatballs. I was shocked how easy it was to get it just right. I tested out this…
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Someone I know always orders the chopped steak at restaurants because he is afraid it will be taken off the menu and go extinct if people don’t order it. I’m not exactly sure where the concern comes from, but clearly the dish evokes a memory for that person that he doesn’t want to see die. I think we all have certain foods that are connected to memories of a good time or a specific person and with the lapse in teaching cooking skills to recent generations, a lot of these recipes have literally and figuratively died with their keepers. Thinking…
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