(this giveaway is now closed) It’s theme week on the https://bevcooks.com blog internet website URL! And no, the theme is not Bev Discusses Her Struggle With Nail Biting. Although I’m sure that would be so much fun for you? I’m actually featuring recipes from all my friends’ current cookbooks! Also known as Why Didn’t I […]
Grilled Chicken Salad Sandwiches & Kale Chips – An Autumn Picnic
Let’s go on a picnic! Not a tree picnic, seeeleeeee. Basically, this is the deal. We have probably 3 1/2 hours left of stunning autumn weather before it turns icy and cold and miserable and abominable snowmany. (Which, can I just say, I used to call it “abdominal” a long time ago. And by “long […]
Pan-Seared Salmon with a Pistachio Mint Cream Sauce
OMG. We have to have a meeting right now. Sooooo I finished Gone Girl yesterday. ohhhhhhhhforthefreakinglove. I’ve had a number of you ask for my final thoughts on the matter, and without any spoilers, I’ve collected my overall take on the ordeal, and I’ve come to a most substantial conclusion: W.T.F. Part one: SO […]
Shrimp Simmered in Garlicky Beer Sauce + Giveaway!
(this giveaway is now closed) (to be sung to the tune of Oh, Susanna) Oh Aida, oh won’t you cook for me! For I’m flippin’ through your new cookbook, and I’ve got yer kitchen key! Yeeee-haw! Guess what today is? No guess! Okay I’ll tell you. It’s the official release of the fabulous (and sickeningly […]
Crock Pot Chicken Stock
I swear all I ever want to do is talk about Gone Girl. I’m 77% through it and I CANNOT DO anything else but read the blasted thang. Talk about a screen clicker. Get it? Instead of a page turner? Because I’m reading it on an e-reader? And I click the screen? Instead of turn […]
Roasted Vegetable and Pesto Minestrone
This soup looks like my neighborhood right now. Okay and get this. Normally I don’t gravitate towards certain fallish colors, likes the brown and yellow hues. Now, the burnt oranges, deep reds and dark purples? Totally obsessed with. But THIS YEAR? This year I’m loving it all. ALL OF IT. I’m like a loose lion […]
Seared Pork Tenderloin with Apples and Broccoli
It’s so so so so sososososo fall right now. SO fall. And I seriously c.a.n.n.o.t. soak it up enough. I know I’m probably annoying the tar out of you guys with my constant Instagram fall nature pictures, but I can’t heeeeeeelp it. Everywhere I look I’m like HOW IS THAT TREE EVEN DOING THAT. HOW […]
Slow Cooker Beef Saag
Nooooot my most attractive meal to date. Ohhhhhhh ho ho ho, man. I can only seriously hope and pray and wish that you’ve either seen or eat or witnessed someone else eat saag in an Indian restaurant before and that you know what it looks like, and that you’ve not already gotten sick to your […]
Kale and Sage Pesto Crostini with Roasted Vegetables
Suuuuurpriiiiiiiiiise! Hey, Lisa. Hi, I’m talkin’ to you. Yeah, you. Suuuuurpriiiiiiiiise! It’s a baby shower! For you! And that baby boy that’s going to shoot out of you in like, what, three weeks? Woo hoo! I knew I loved Lisa before we even met. We roomed together this summer at BlogHer Food, but before that […]
Creamy Smothered Chicken with Mushrooms
I wish I was that piece of chicken. Well, before the whole teeth puncturing through me thing. But really, I wish I was that piece of chicken. But I wish I was that piece of chicken with a huge tongue. A huge slippery tongue so that I could lick everything on, above and under me. […]