Snack Recipes
Sicilian Fried Dough Balls – Christmas in Italy
Part eight in my Christmas Around the World series! Christmas in Italy, focus on: DOUGH BALLS! Big thank you to my friend Mel for joining me on the show again to share her family tradition! Yay! Fried dough balls! A simple bread dough; little bites of it filled with cheese or pepperoni or anchovies, then…
Read MoreBuñuelos Navideños – Colombian Christmas Buñuelos
Buñuelos Navideños Video Demo (scroll down for printable recipe) Part five in my Christmas Around the World series! Christmas in Colombia, focus on: BUñUELOS! Muchas gracias a Cristina for this recipe and others that she has shared with me. ¡Abrazos! Colombian buñuelos Navideños are quite different from any buñuelos I’d seen before. These buñuelos are…
Read MoreJalapeño Deviled Eggs
Deviled eggs are one of my favorite party snacks to make. People make fun of them a little bit — they have a reputation for being old-fashioned or giving you farts and egg-breath — and perhaps there’s a nugget of truth there, but good lord, deviled eggs are delicioso! Deviled eggs in their basest form…
Read MoreChimichanga!
Chimichanga! It’s so fun to say! I had a request for a chimichanga video from my buddy Larry. That same week, I had TWO requests for “unhealthy vegetarian food” — a descriptive that makes me smile. A chimichanga is pretty unhealthy, on account of the frying, and the cheese, and also the frying. So I…
Read MoreGorditas
Gorditas roughly translates into “little fatties”, which is a reference to their appearance — fat, stuffed corn tortillas — and possibly your appearance as well if you eat too many. A play on my “Healthy vs Hell-with-it” theme, these are basically Tuesday’s very healthy, low-fat and wholesome corn tortilla recipe turned into fried corn dough…
Read MoreFlautas
I surely can’t be the only one to whom chicken flautas are a serious, dedicated food love. Corn tortillas rolled tightly around filling of your choice (chicken here, but beef or potato fillings are common) then fried until crispy golden delicious is achieved?? I mean, COMEON. This video was the second collaboration we did at…
Read MoreQueso!
Queso Dip Video (scroll down for queso recipe) If you’re not from Texas, you probably have no idea what the hell queso is. I know, I know, you think you know that it means “cheese” in Spanish and you are correct in that. But to a Texan, queso means something completely different. Sometimes called chili…
Read MoreTop Superbowl Food!
The only part of the Superbowl that I care about is the food and the drinking and sometimes the yelling at the TV. Since every red-blooded American is fairly adept at drinking and yelling at the TV, but maybe not so much at making the food and the snacks, this post will focus on the…
Read MoreBaked Chicken Wings
For “health month” (which we are still technically in, FYI, even though January seems to have sprawled itself out over like a decade already) I thought I’d do a baked chicken wings recipe. When we first did hot wings on the show, it was my first time with chicken wings, both eating and cooking them.…
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