Pork Tenderloin Salad with Blood Orange Dressing

I wanted a main course salad that was a little different. I started thinking along the lines of nicoise, but I don’t trust the tuna over at SFW. I thought pork tenderloin might make a good substitute, so I started building a salad around that.

Mixed greens with pomegranate dressing

Finally emerged from my pneumonia coma (yeah, I have pneumonia; good times) to do some cooking last night. Pot together a main dish based on a favorite appetizer recipe, whipped up some oven fries, steamed some green beans with tarragon. But the surprise highlight of the meal was actually the salad.

Sunrise Punch

So yeah. I’m on Day 5 of Fever Sickness from Hell. I don’t remember the last time I was this sick. I think it was back when I was living in NY. It’s pretty bad.
Food is largely unappealing, and I’ve mostly been living on a concoction of diet ginger ale, grenadine and orange juice. So [...]

Melissa’s Recipe Challenge

Melissa asked me to come up with a meal based on five ingredients chose by a local chef. She took the challenge as well, so check out her entry on her site. The ingredients were chosen by Gillian Clark, who went with:
parsnips
cheddar cheese
buttermilk
cornmeal
bay scallops
Now, to me, those ingredients scream Southern cooking – cheesy grits, maybe [...]

Top Shelf: Check It Out

As many of you know, my day job is as a reporter, mostly writing about restaurants, for the Washington Business Journal. I write a weekly column called Top Shelf about comings and goings, trends, and other fun stuff in the restaurant and retail industries. But since most of our print content is only available to [...]

Flatbread Mini Pizzas

These are super easy and slightly more healthy than your normal pizza.

John’s Jack Daniels Chicken

I don’t know how this recipe went so long without making it to my blog – it’s my favorite thing John makes.