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Chipotle-Maple Barbecue Chicken
I adore a good barbecue sauce. One that sticks to your fingers and cheeks while balancing sweet, spicy, smoky, and tangy flavors. When I stumbled across a 7-minute recipe for Chipotle-Maple Barbecue...
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Grilled Peaches with Mascarpone and Crumbled Gingersnap
We are moving this month. We close in just under a week on our first home. It’s perfect in every way imaginable. A small bungalow in a beautiful historic neighborhood it’s got tons of character....
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Grilled Vegetable and Farro Salad
Too often, when we think of grilling, we think of thick steaks, sticky ribs, and hotdogs. If vegetables enter in to the picture, they are found on skewers framing chunks of marinated beef or chicken....
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Creamy Cole Slaw
Malaysian chicken curry on Monday, fried tofu with a black bean sauce on Wednesday, and morning-glory muffins for breakfast on Friday. A week does not go by when I don’t try something new in my...
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Grilled Lemon-Garlic Shrimp on Rosemary Skewers
In just a couple of weeks, I’ll be kicking back on the North Florida gulf coast. My parents have a place on the Gulf of Mexico, just south of Tallahassee, on the coastline affectionately known as the...
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On TV: Sweet Tea Brined Pork Tenderloin with Peach Salsa
I wrote about this recipe several years ago. It’s one of my favorite summer entrees and I had great fun demonstrating how to make it today on WCNC’s Charlotte Today Show. Click on the image above to...
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Banh Mi Burgers with Sriracha Mayo
In the past, despite the fact that it’s been a long time since I’ve seen a classroom, back to school has been my favorite time of year. Armed with new office supplies, it’s my hot weather version of...
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On TV: Banh Mi Burgers
Back in August, a visit to Charlotte by President Obama prevented me from sharing a particular banh mi recipe with you. I still posted the recipe here, but the segment that got interrupted due to his...
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Orange-Chipotle Pork Tenderloin
It used to not even be a question. When it came to meat, I’d always choose pork shoulder over the pork tenderloin or a chicken thigh or leg over a boneless, skinless chicken breast. Then I started...
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Yogurt-Marinated Chicken Kebabs with Tzatziki
Recently, I demonstrated how to make this dish for a promotional shoot on cooking with herbs for a grocery store and was reminded of how good it is. Best when prepared ahead, it’s a recipe seemingly...
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The 2015 Minced Guide to Summer
Yesterday, I shared one of my favorite summer dessert recipes, panna cotta with mixed berries, with viewers on WCNC’s Charlotte Today show. This recipe (first posted here) is always a favorite of...
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Homemade Marshmallows for 4th of July S’Mores
My husband, who is wonderful in so many ways, has a serious flaw. He does not like marshmallows. Aside from the obvious concerns this raises about his character, it also means that marshmallows are...
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Korean Bulgogi with Kimchi on the HEXX
I’m not sure what I’m more excited about here: the bulgogi or the grill I used to cook it. Korean bulgogi, “fire meat,” is a recipe that every grilling enthusiast should have in their back pocket....
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Winning Bites for Super Bowl 50
The Carolina Panthers play Sunday in Super Bowl 50. It’s been a week of preparation. I’ve been practicing my dab and my #35 jersey is washed and ready to go. I plan on kicking things off Sunday...
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2016 Minced Guide to Summer
I got up early this morning to put the finishing touches on a post about summer vegetable quiche. As I was about to hit publish, I realized that 4th of July was just days away and that quiche is the...
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Roasted Shishito Peppers
The first weeks of June had me believing my thumb was green. Yellow blooms covered my spindly tomato plants, summer squash leaves grew to jungle-sized proportions, and even my strawberry plant,...
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Grilled Pork Chops with Gremolata Butter
Autumn is technically still weeks away, but I can tell summer is coming to an end. My calendar is starting to fill up and my Facebook feed is flooded with back to school pictures. I’m ready for life...
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