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Sausage and Beans with Mushrooms, a Favorite Anywhere, Anyhow
I think that sausage and beans have been around as long as men have been around. Somewhere along the historical line, some guy (probably Italian or Spanish) looked at his male package and wanted to...
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Chicken Parmesan
As a first-generation Italian, I have had the pleasure of eating some unbelievably beautiful food made with passion by my aunts, my nonna, my pop’s aunts, my aunt’s relatives visiting from Italy...
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Steak on Cornbread with Salsa Pesto
There’s this restaurant in Birmingham, Alabama, called Highlands Bar and Grill, and, a few years back, I had a food-gasm there. The wife and I had gone to the south to visit family and friends, and we...
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Maple Cereal-Crusted Chicken Breasts Stuffed with Blue Cheese
This recipe is an example of an invention arising from shopping whilst being hungry. Generally, I think it’s a bad idea to shop when you want some sustenance because I, for one, will buy everything...
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Israeli Couscous
In one of my first posts, I shared an Israeli couscous recipe attached to a recipe for tandoori chicken pitas. The pictures were horrible and did not do the dish justice. Moreover, it was part of a...
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T.J.’s Butternut Squash and Ravioli with Béchamel Sauce
This seemingly over-indulgent and altogether gorgeous dish will beguile you. You might think that you can’t possibly eat this without guilt. Believe it or not, this dish, with shaved cinnamon-crusted...
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Roasted Herbed Pork Tenderloin
When my wife and I moved in together after dating for a year, we got an apartment in my home town of Fountain Valley, California, right across the street from Fountain Bowl, the past host of the PBA’s...
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T.J.’s Arugula and Parmesan Ravioli with Easy Homemade Pesto
As the years progress, I keep adding to my list of items that I will no longer buy in a grocery store: croutons, pot pies, Brut Aftershave, certain salad dressings, frozen cream pies, pizza rolls,...
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T.J.’s Artichoke Ravioli in a Toasted Bread Crumb and Butter Sauce
In his book Heat, Bill Buford chronicles his adventures as an amateur slave cook for Mario Batali, and his immersion into the professional cooking world. Amongst the people he mentions in the novel is...
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Chicken, Sausage, and Capers on Polenta
It was a year ago last Friday that I sat down at my computer and, with a short preamble, wrote down what I had for dinner that night. Thus began Dinner with Jonny. I started it solely for my own...
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