Tag: cream sauce

  • Shrimp and Grits: First Attempt

    Shrimp and Grits: First Attempt

    This is going to be a series, as I am attempting to learn how to make this delicious and deceptively simple dish. This is my first attempt, based on doing the grits in the instantPot for speed and ease, and a creamy sauce for the shrimp which is all wrong while being oh, so right.…

  • Pollo a la Crema

    Pollo a la Crema

    One of the First Reader’s favorite dishes at a local Mexican restaurant is Pollo Azteca, a creamy dish with chicken, mushrooms, and a hint of spice. Ok, more than a hint. I decided I wanted to try and replicate it at home – for one thing, we can’t manage eating out very often for time…

  • Eat This While You Read That: Stryder Dancewolffe

    Eat This While You Read That: Stryder Dancewolffe

    Firstly, thank you to my readers for their patience, I’m afraid that my schedule is going to remain loose for a while as I’m focusing more on school than the blog. But I have to keep cooking, so cooking with a dual purpose is good! Stryder Dancewolffe gave me a rough sketch of a recipe…

  • Eat This While You Read That: Jeff Duntemann

    Eat This While You Read That: Jeff Duntemann

      The beauty and the challenge of ETWYRT is that I never know what I’ll get when I ask an author for a dish. At this point I’ve made everything from nostalgic dishes that reminded expatriates of home, to dishes that were taken from the pages of an author’s book. Some of the dishes have…