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How to Make Chicken Gravy

Stephanie — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:39:46 +0000

How to make chicken gravy is a question you may have asked yourself. Making homemade gravy isn’t difficult to do. It is actually fairly easy. Whenever I bake up a chicken, I am always thinking of mashed potatoes and some homemade chicken gravy. I have such fond memories of Sunday dinner at my grandmother’s house; chicken gravy was definitely a part of that picture.

How to Make Chicken Gravy

There are actually several methods of making a gravy. I am going to show you what I think is one of the easiest ones to make, and one that practically seasons itself. This style of chicken gravy is the one to make after you bake a chicken. Since you baked your chicken you have already seasoned the bird perfectly. After the chicken is cooked remove it from the pan, and you have flavorful pan drippings that are just crying out to be made into gravy. When it comes to which liquid to use in your gravy you can use chicken broth like I do in this recipe, or you may even want to use a couple of cups of milk instead.

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Chipotle Mexican Grill’s Spicy Corn Salsa

Stephanie — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:04:41 +0000

Chipotle Mexican Grill’s Jalapeno and Corn Salsa has to be one of my favorite salsa’s to put on my burrito when I go to Chipotle Mexican Grill. What makes it unique is that so often we associate salsa with tomatoes, we are often used to tomatoes being paired with peppers, but not a corn salsa. This dish is fairly easy to create at home. This salsa goes well with chips, on tacos, and even on taco soup.

While this jalapeno and corn salsa is made with just a few ingredients, it has a rich and robust flavor. I started mine with frozen corn. Since corn isn’t always in season I wanted to use something that you could find all year around. I also added a little fresh jalapeno. Let me say, that peppers vary, sometimes they are hot, sometimes they aren’t. If you really don’t like heat, be sure to strip out the middle “pith” of the pepper, and remove the seeds. Honestly, I think this same salsa would be great with fresh poblano pepper, or if you really like to walk on the wild spicy side, use more or try a habanero. This stores well in an airtight container for 3 or 4 days after preparation.

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Pumpkin Pie Dip

Stephanie — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:24:50 +0000

Pumpkin Pie Dip is one of my favorite holiday recipes. This tastes like a pumpkin cheesecake, but it is much less work than a whole pumpkin cheesecake. A couple of years ago I won a holiday baking contest from this recipe when I paired these up with homemade gingersnap cookies.

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Chilis Salsa – New Video

Stephanie — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:32:07 +0000

You can watch how I make Chilis salsa at home. This has to be one of my favorite videos so far. I had recently purchased a Vitamix, and well this was a kitchen appliance that I had been wanting since I was a small child. It wasn’t until I went to a Techmunch event in Austin that I stopped at a Whole Foods where they were doing a demo on the Vitamix. I had to get it. You know I love it too! So here is the video!

Here is the link to the recipe.
Chilis Salsa Recipe

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Roasted Tomato Sauce

Stephanie — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:50:05 +0000

Roasted Tomato Sauce is a great way to enjoy fresh tomatoes. You can easily make a vegetarian sauce that is hearty, and filling. This recipe is one I adapted from Judy Heuman, she sent over a recipe on a mailing list that I am on, and I was over zealous with my tomato purchases at the co-op last week, that this pasta sauce was perfect to cure my over abundance of fresh tomatoes.

Judy’s recipe was for 25 pounds of tomatoes, thankfully I didn’t purchase that many last week. I had about 3 pounds of tomatoes that were very ripe, so this was the basis for my recipe. Judy suggests that you could add things like celery, mushrooms, and more. I left this sauce very simple it was one that I easily prepared one evening after work.

Roasted Tomato Sauce

Yield: Sauce for 4 servings of pasta

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