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The Best Crispy Oven Roasted Potatoes

Crispy oven roasted potatoes are an easy, healthy side dish for breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner. No matter what time of year, they fit every meal.

The Best Crispy Oven Roasted Potatoes

Forget feeling all the feels, lately I’ve been feeling all the sides. Maybe it’s because when I make up my weekly not-a-plan-flexible-meal-plan (subscribe to my newsletter and I’ll send it to you each Saturday for FREE) I realize there are so many easy side dishes I make that I haven’t yet shared here on the blog.

Or maybe it’s because if I had my druthers, my plate would be composed of a taste of this and a bite of that. Variety is my friend.

These crispy oven roasted potatoes will also add variety to your plate, with a variety of herbs, and served at a variety of times, these taters are at the top of my easy side dish list. And now, they are about to shoot to the top of yours. continue to the recipe… about The Best Crispy Oven Roasted Potatoes

Cast-Iron Skillet Whole Roasted Chicken With Potatoes

Nothing says simple comfort food like a whole-roasted chicken, and when tossed into an already-hot, cast iron skillet with sliced potatoes and onions, you have an incredibly easy one-pot-meal that’s ready in just one hour for dinner any night of the week.

If you’ve ever watched an episode of Barefoot Contessa, you know that Ina’s husband Jeffrey’s favorite meal is a whole roasted chicken. Every Friday night. She even wrote a cookbook about it. So while it may have become a bit of a schtick, I’d have to say those two are onto something.

I like to make a roast chicken on Sunday as part of my meal prep to have on hand for lunches and throw together dinners through the rest of the week.

And every time I roast that whole chicken I wonder why I don’t hear more about others preparing the whole humble bird. Because we all know, people love their chicken. Chicken breasts? Absolutely! Drumsticks? They’re the most transportable bite. Wings are always a party favorite, and even chicken thighs are having their day.

So when I picked up the latest issue of Bon Appétit’s Sunday Suppers issue and discovered a new variation on whole-bird roasting, I was in. And now, you are too. continue to the recipe… about Cast-Iron Skillet Whole Roasted Chicken With Potatoes

Braised Pork Roast in Almond Milk

This almond milk braised pork roast is a twist on the classic Italian slow-cooked dinner, delivering fall-off-the-bone bites of meat and a lush sauce that’s incredibly easy to make and destined to become a Sunday dinner favorite.

This post is brought to you by Almond Breeze

Do you ever really think about where your food comes from?

Sure, come summertime you may visit your local farmers market to pick up some fresh tomatoes and wander the aisles nibbling on samples of local fruit pricked with little toothpicks handed out by the local farmer’s 10 year old son, as you chastise yourself because you didn’t bring enough hard and fast cash money to buy a dozen ears of super fresh, super sweet local corn from your favorite stand.

Yup. I’ve been there. continue to the recipe… about Braised Pork Roast in Almond Milk

Slow Cooker Mexican Pot Roast

Mexican spices add to the flavor of this easy crock pot roasted beef recipe that comes out tender, moist and delicious every time.

This post is part of my year long partnership with Reynolds and I’m telling you now…this slow cooker Mexican beef pot roast recipe could set the record for fastest and easiest clean-up of a dinner recipe ever.

My husband and I spent this past weekend with a group of our best friends to celebrate one of my bestest-friends-of-too-many-years birthdays. It was one of those milestone birthdays we all get a little apprehensive about, but once it finally arrives and then quickly drifts by, you wonder what all the hype—and hypertension—was about.

As we will do, we ate, we drank, we got merry, and we compared notes on all of the above. continue to the recipe… about Slow Cooker Mexican Pot Roast

Sirloin Steak Sandwiches with Horseradish Sauce

It was the tiger sauce topping these beef steak sandwiches that pulled him in and took the rest of us right along with him.

Watching cooking shows on weekend mornings is how my husband and I ease into the reality that in a wink of an eye we’ll be smack dab in the middle of Monday. Oh, how we rue the day (fist shake at the sky).

It’s also the way we figure out what’s looking good on the Casa de Larsen menu for the week and usually my husband decides on at least a few of the recipes because we share time in the kitchen. See, I don’t always have to be in charge.

We get our fair share of episodes on Food Network, but you simply can’t forget about good old PBS and some of the long-loved cooking shows that have outlived many an episode’s kitchen timer like those featuring the 80-year-old Jacque Pepin and Lidia Bastianich and yes, even the doyenne herself, Martha Stewart.

If you’re any sort of food lover in the kitchen you’ve likely run across America’s Test Kitchen and Cook’s Country on PBS. What a set up these guys have in their sweet countrified-porch-wrapped kitchen that makes you feel right at home so pull up a chair.

They do the testing. Lots of it. They work the recipes until they discover the secret to it’s success. And only then do they share it in all it’s glory. And Christopher Kimball…in his trademark bow tie. If you have a thing for a guy in a bow tie, this is your man.

These Sirloin Steak Sandwiches were a featured player a few weeks ago. They called them Baltimore Pit Beef Sandwiches. We simply called them delicious.

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How to Roast Chile Peppers

Whether you like them hot, sweet or somewhere in between, roasting chile peppers takes any variety of peppers to a whole new level.

The closest I’ve been able to get my hands on real deal Hatch chiles has been when Whole Foods loads up their inventory. But when my friend Amanda visited me recently (her Instagram gives me serious wanderlust), she brought with her a big bag of Hatch chile peppers.

She had just visited her man’s family in New Mexico and the actual city of Hatch (yep, there’s a real town for them!) where chile pepper season is at it’s height. With a trip in her sights to come my way, she knew I’d be pleased as punch to put some bone fide, straight from NM chiles to work in some upcoming recipes.