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Category: Food

Roasted Butternut Squash and Onion Turnovers

These butternut squash turnovers can be made year round, but I think they are perfect for Thanksgiving. Do you want your family to quit nagging you about when dinner will be ready? Then you need to have some light bites on hand to hold them over. These flaky and savory pastries will do the trick! I usually have these on hand along with something like aย French Onion dip…

Arrabiata Sauce with Calabarian Chili Peppers

This arrabiata sauce is like a marinara sauce with a kick of heat. Arrabiata is Italian for angry. Typically, you make the sauce angry (aka spicy) by adding red pepper flakes. However, I subbed the pepper flakes for my homemade Calabrian chili pepper paste. It adds a nice amount of spice and some depth of flavor…

Easy Calabrian Chili Paste

This Calabrian chili paste will become your new favorite condiment. It is flavorful, spicy and versatile. You can use it in sauces, on pizza, in hummus, on sandwiches… the possibilities are endless. There is something I love about Calabrian chilis…

New York Sour Cocktail

I don’t recall the first time I had a New York Sour, but I am sure I was intrigued by the cocktail description. This drink is a variation of a Whiskey Sour and perhaps one of my favorites. A New York Sour is essentially a whiskey sour (whiskey or bourbon, lemon, sugar and an optional egg white) with a dry, fruity red wine float…