This risotto carbonara is a great dish to make ahead to bring to a pot luck or freeze for an easy work week complete meal. Or, it's just yummy to dive in the day you make it!

Too hot for a bowl of chili con carne y queso? Make some to put in your taco to celebrate Cinco de Mayo

A butterflied pork loin provides yet another canvas for your kitchen creativity. This spinach and tomato variation is easy to make and eye-popping on the plate

This Axe Kickin' pumpkin soup made a great luncheon entree for a vegetarian friend of mine.

Round 2 with the Axe Kickin' hot sauce brings us to some chicken salad with a bit of heat.

After you read this, you'll be buying this Axe Kickin' pumpkin habanero hot sauce and finding your own cool things to do with it.

Other than to stay from toppings like Hawaiian, Mexican, BBQ, and Buffalo toppings, (they are not pizzas in my world) pizza dough is a blank canvas for your creativity with toppings.

Pizza comes in many shapes and forms, we explore them here.

Roulade is fun to make and a great way to use up random ingredients that may be kicking around in the fridge.

Broccoli rabe with farro and shrimp with a scampi inspired sauce with very little real cooking involved.

This pot roast recipe is yummy, and makes for great sandwiches from the leftovers -- if there are any leftovers. And bonus content, how to re-season your rusty cast iron cookware.

This portabella 'pizza' recipe is gluten free, and delicious.

Need to make something ahead to feed a crowd, this vegetarian potato soup is sure to please -- and fill everyone with creamy goodness.

You may think of this as pizza, but in my world this King Arthur Flaky Puff Crust goes WAY beyond and deserves tome more gourmet toppings.

Here's how the rabbit hole work when there's a storm cooking up.

Imagine homemade fettuccine with a wild mushroom cream sauce infused with just a touch of bourbon with cooked tri-color peppercorns and Bulgar wheat. It's worth the time to give it a go!

A favorite in NJ, why not share some broccoli and cavatelli wherever you are?

This prime rib is so easy to make and well worth breaking the bank a bit.

More fun things to do with eggplant, and who doesn't like a little Moussaka?

Ciambotta with grated Parmesan and crusty brown bread. Ciambotta, pronounced 'chom-bought' in my world, is essentially a summer vegetable stew. The dish is popular throughout southern Italy and not only do the ingredients vary by region, so does the name. In Calabria it's ciambrotta, and in Basilicata it's as I spell it here, and in Campania it is cianfotta. But no matter how you say it, it's delicious and for me, a wonderful comfort food. When my mother made this when I w