Category: Secret Ingredient

Chicken Roasted in Cider & Beer

Whew! Hopefully we all made it through the holidays in one piece. If you over-loaded on cookies (we have proof that I did, here on this website), ran around shopping like a crazy person, or

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Pork Chops with Apples & Onions

This is one of my favorite fall dinners. Three simple flavors – pork chops, apples, and onions – get a little help from beer and apple cider to make a dish that’s not only comforting

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Vegetarian Chili

Whooohooo! It’s chili season! Maybe it’s because it’s football season, but with the first hint of fall — which in Florida means day time highs and humidity levels below 90 —  I start craving a

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Beer Cheese Soup

Beer Cheese Soup. Official Soup of the State of Wisconsin! Or at least it should be. Let’s start a write-in campaign. This is good stuff. Quick and easy too. In keeping with my Wisconsin theme,

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Beer Cheese Bread

Beer. Cheese. Bread. Hard to find much wrong with those three words. Combine them and you’ve got one serious loaf of awesomeness. What do you think about having our own little Oktoberfest here at Idiot’s

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Fig & Fontina Stuffed Chicken

Can you handle one more recipe in our Fig-a-thon? How about chicken breasts, pounded thin, stuffed with creamy fontina cheese and dried figs, all rolled up and covered in a savory sauce? Yes, I thought

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Figs with Prosciutto and Blue Cheese

Remember our friends the figs? The Secret Ingredient for our fabulous Fig & Rosemary Pork Tenderloin? Well, these fantastic funky fruits are only available in their fresh form for a very limited time. So while

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Fig & Rosemary Pork Tenderloin

Fig & Rosemary Pork Tenderloin. Good food. Really good food. But first, a quick story…. A couple of weeks ago, shortly after the first anniversary of Idiot’s Kitchen, my husband Jim and I were chatting

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