Kale and Bean Soup
A friend made us this soup several years ago, and we have been working to reverse engineer the recipe ever since. It only takes one perishable ingredient (the kale) and everything else can…
Read moreMomMom’s Vegetable Beef
This is a recipe from the Shorebird’s MomMom. This hearty beef soup is loaded with vegetables and is a great recipe for a dreary Sunday afternoon, when you can leave…
Read moreEastern Shore Chicken and Dumplings
The Eastern Shore of Maryland is famous for its chickens and famous for its dumplings, which are almost paper thin, wide-cut, and slick. Some grocery stores have something called Anne’s…
Read moreRecipe Fails: Chicken Teriyaki
This chicken teriyaki recipe in the New York Times looked promising at first, but I should have put more thought into it before trying it. I’d love to have a good…
Read moreIndiana Sugar Cream Pie
A few years ago, before we started the blog, we were having lunch outside of Charleston with a cousin of Shorebird’s who somehow ended up in the Low Country. While…
Read moreChocolate Peanut Butter Marshmallow Pizza
Goat kids never ate a lot of cake, so for birthdays, goat mom (aka pygmy goat) would often make this incredibly decadent chocolate peanut butter marshmallow pizza instead. It was…
Read moreCream of Chicken
Shorebird grew up on this dish. The recipe was handed down to us with only the name “cream of chicken” which seems to just be one of the ingredients, rather…
Read moreOven-Baked Pork Chop
Since we’ve given up fried foods for Lent we needed to find an alternative to our beloved fried pork chop. This oven-baked pork chop is easy and every bit as delicious.…
Read moreThree-Buck Chuck Pot Roast
I actually think Charles Shaw is the best cooking wine. It’s $3 a bottle but unlike cooking sherry it’s potable on its own. Here we used it for an extremely…
Read moreSweet Potato Sticky Buns (They Have Vegetables in Them So They’re Healthy?)*
We occasionally make these ridiculously indulgent sticky buns as a Thanksgiving morning treat. If you’re on one of those diets where you have one day a week (or month… or…
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