Mock Hot Blue Berry Pie Ala mode 2 Blue Berry Pop Tart or Toaster Strudel (I prefer the Toaster Strudel) 2 Scoops Vanilla Ice Cream (OK three or four scoops, who am I kidding) Break the Blue Berry Pop Tart into a microwave safe bowl and zap for 30 seconds (microwaves vary so you may […]
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October 10 2012
Wheat Free Quiche
Wheat free quiche you say, how can that be? Well it is actually pretty easy. Instead of a flour crust I used shredded hash brown potatoes. Since this was a hash brown potato crust quiche I decided to stay with the breakfast theme and used sausage for the meat and Colby-Jack cheese. Otherwise the ingredients are the same […]
March 26 2012
A New Batch of Hot Sauce!
A couple of weekends ago I put up some more of my “Restaurant Style” Hot Sauce. You can see my previous posts here and here. I made fifty bottles this time around. pretty much the same recipe as before, but this time I used some diced tomatoes. Didn’t like them; I think from now on I will only […]
January 11 2011
Hot Sauce 2011
I made a double batch of restaurant style hot sauce yesterday. By “Restaurant Style” I mean a cooked hot sauce like they serve at my favorite Tex-Mex restaurant the Beltline Bar in Grand Rapids. I was never that into “Salsa”. They make a “Salsa” at the Beltline Bar but they call it the “mild” sauce. […]
September 6 2010
OK! It’s Back to Work on the Chef Benwa Cooks Blog
As most of you have noticed I took a little hiatus form writing the Chef Benwa Cooks Blog. Well vacation is over, it back to work and work I will. The plan is to do two post a week. At least one recipe a week and some other post of interesting information or some other […]
July 11 2010
Chili Verde Con Carne Lasagna
Well it’s really only lasagna in the sense that it is layered like the lasagna. I made a version of this method for a pot-luck at my day job. The girls liked it so much they wanted the recipe. It is not really a recipe as such but more of a method. Today I am […]
October 4 2009
Reese’s Brownies! Just Fricken Awesome!
Oh yeah! You heard me right, Reese’s Brownies, in a cupcake! They are just as good as you would think! I was Stumbling the web when I found The Crepes of Wrath blog which was doing an article about brownies with York Peppermint patties. Not being too fond of peppermint patties I thought of what […]
January 25 2009
Ultimate Super Bowl Sunday Menu!
Here from the pages of the Chef Benwa Cooks blog is the Ultimate Super Bowl Sunday Menu. This is your one-stop-shop for some of the best food for Sunday’s big game. Lets just hope it a good one.
October 22 2008
The Great, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Or a review of my eating experiences on my last trip to Las Vegas I took a couple of weeks off to go to the Vision Expo show in Las Vegas for my day job. I also had to catch up on some projects around the house. While in Las Vegas my dining experiences ran […]
September 14 2008
Football Season is Chicken Wing Season
The start of the NFL football season signals the start of the Unofficial Chicken Wing season. You can have them fried, baked, broiled, or grilled. I like them fried with a nice coating of a good Buffalo Wing sauce. I also really like them grilled after they’ve been marinated in a good, hot marinade. In […]
