This blackened Cajun salmon and shrimp dinner brings a little restaurant energy to your kitchen! Spice-crusted salmon and tender shrimp are served with bacon-loaded mashed potatoes, buttery white and yellow corn, and a generous helping of white wine Creole cream sauce. This is my take on The Cheesecake Factory’s Cajun Salmon menu item, featuring blackened…
Creamy Chicken au Poivre Recipe
This creamy Chicken au Poivre turns two simple chicken breasts into a restaurant-worthy dinner in about 30 minutes. The chicken is butterflied, seasoned simply with salt, and pan-seared until beautifully golden. Then, the same skillet is used to create a rich peppercorn cream sauce with brandy or cognac, Dijon mustard, rosemary, and fresh chives. Listen,…
Pan-Seared Grouper with Maple Calabrian Butter Sauce
This recipe started with chicken in mind, briefly considered shrimp, and somehow fresh grouper walked away with the leading role. 😂 And honestly? It was absolutely the right choice. This Pan-Seared Grouper with Maple Calabrian Butter Sauce features tender, flaky grouper with a beautifully golden crust, finished with a glossy pan sauce made from dry…
Crispy Beer Battered Fish Sandwich with Homemade Tartar Sauce
I love a good fish sandwich. But if I’m making one at home, I need a little more than a piece of fish, a slice of cheese, and some tartar sauce slapped between two buns. We can do better. 😂 This Beer Battered Fish Sandwich starts with flaky cod dipped directly into a homemade beer…
Hot Honey Stuffed Salmon
If regular baked salmon has been boring you lately, I have something for you. This Hot Honey Stuffed Salmon is a whole salmon fillet stuffed with creamy Hot Honey & Roasted Garlic Boursin cheese, spinach, mozzarella, provolone, and Herbs de Provence. Then the outside gets coated in a sweet, smoky, spicy Cajun seasoning blend before…
Brown Butter Caramel Icing Recipe
If you’re looking for a brown butter caramel icing that’s rich, buttery, easy to make, and actually tastes like caramel instead of straight powdered sugar, this is the one. This homemade caramel icing starts with salted butter cooked until golden brown and nutty. Light brown sugar and heavy cream are added to create the caramel…
Filthy Cabbage – Southern Ground Beef and Cabbage Recipe
Listen. I know Filthy Cabbage sounds a little questionable. But stay with me. This is what happens when regular cooked cabbage gets tired of being somebody’s quiet little side dish and decides it wants to be the whole meal. We’re taking seasoned ground beef—or turkey if that’s your business—and cooking it a little differently. Instead…
Brown Butter Sticky Peach Bread Pudding
If peach cobbler and bread pudding had a baby, I imagine it would taste a whole lot like this Brown Butter Sticky Peach Bread Pudding. Buttery croissants are soaked in a rich vanilla custard flavored with brown sugar, cinnamon, and allspice, then layered with fresh peaches coated in a sticky brown butter sauce. After baking,…
Tender Cubed Steak and Gravy Recipe
This tender cubed steak and gravy recipe is the kind of comforting, old-fashioned dinner that makes the whole house smell good. The cubed steaks are seasoned, lightly coated in flour, pan-fried until golden brown, and then slowly simmered in a rich homemade onion gravy until they become tender enough to cut with a fork. It…
Poor Man’s Burnt Ends (Easy Oven Recipe) | Tender Chuck Roast BBQ
If you love BBQ burnt ends but don’t have a smoker, this Poor Man’s Burnt Ends recipe is about to become your new favorite dinner. Tender chunks of chuck roast are seasoned with a sweet and smoky dry rub, roasted low and slow until they’re melt-in-your-mouth tender, then tossed in a rich homemade Hennessy BBQ…