Want to make gravy in advance, so it’s ready to grace your sizzling meat as soon as it comes off the grill? This mushroom gravy is it. After dinner, stir the pan juices into the leftover gravy and you have ammo for another meal later in the week.
Sides
Pasta Salad with Fresh Cod Is Refreshingly Different
Pasta Salad with Fresh Cod is surprisingly good. Check out the recipe. I really love it: it’s light, refreshing, different, and very much a comfort food. Excellent as a main course, but also interesting as a side.
Masa Cornbread
This Masa Cornbread is made with corn flour as well as cornmeal (and it’s got kernels of corn, to boot). It’s a very moist, almost custardy cornbread.
Gluten-Free Taco Night
Gluten-Free Taco Night with steak tacos, homemade corn tortillas and homemade refried beans, plus blackberry margarita punch (tequila, cassis, ginger beer)
Dinner for Four: Beef Tenderloin
Treat your guests to a whiskey-glazed Beef Tenderloin dinner for four. In addition to the main-course roast, this menu includes cocktails, roasted vegetables, and a spice cake with apples and brandied cherries.
Masa Harina Mexican Corn Cakes
Mexican Corn Cakes are savory pancakes made with masa harina (corn flour). This is an easy recipe and produces a beautiful bit of everyday cooking.
Refried Beans with Cotija Crumble
This recipe for homemade Mexican (or Tex-Mex … who knows?) Refried Beans with Cotija Crumble makes a traditional side for a taco or burrito, but also makes a super-umami sandwich spread.
Gratin of Baked Fennel, Onion, and Red Bell Pepper with Gorgonzola and Danish Sausage
Gratin of Baked Fennel, Onion, and Red Bell Pepper with Gorgonzola and Danish Sausage (Medisterpølse) is genuine comfort food, but at the same time, it’s an easy bit of everyday cooking.
Christmas Menu for Six: Dinner Fit for a King … or Three Kings … and Three of Their Guests
Christmas Menu for Six: feta-stuffed French bread, coffee-encrusted pork roast, hasselback potato gratin, carrots with whiskey and ginger, caramelized Brussels sprouts, raspberries and cheese, black forest buche de noel