Grilled Bacon Wrapped Chicken

Here is a great grill recipe from The Comfort Food Chef. I had a taste for chicken and a few leftovers in the fridge that needed to get used. I ended up this this light, filling, tasty dinner. I had a couple chicken breasts, a few pieces of bacon and some bbq sauce leftover from the hawaiian ribs. A trifecta of flavor waiting to be combined for grilled perfection.

Grilled Bacon Wrapped Chicken

Hawaiian Style Spare Ribs

I am a big fan of ribs and this is a quick and simple way to have delicious great tasting ribs! This is a great recipe for beginners and everyone will enjoy them. I hope you enjoy them!

Hawaiian Style Spare Ribs

Egg Bread

The smell of fresh baked bread has such a calming and healing effect, I love fresh baked bread! This is one of the first breads I learned to make and I really like it. Of course you will hear me say that many a lot! What I like about egg bread is the light airy and of course that great egg taste. Plus egg bread is great for french toast!

Egg Bread

Coconut Curry Chicken w/ Basmati Rice

This is one of Moms favorite comfort food dishes as she is a lover of Indian food. Mom has been a little stressed the last few days, so the is no better way to help heal someone then to cook some comfort food with love! This is a simple easy to prepare dish that doesn't require a trip to a specialty store. All the ingredients in this recipe are in your local grocery store. I hope you enjoy this dish as much as Mom.

Coconut Curry Chicken w/ Basmati Rice

Southern Style Bacon Wrapped Roasted Chicken with Roasted Sweet Potatoes Part 2

This is part 2 of our Southern Style Bacon Wrapped Roasted Chicken with Roasted Sweet Potatoes dinner, you can find part 1 here to learn how to brine a chicken and get a great brine recipe. Let us continue with our southern style chicken dinner because I'm getting hungry just thinking about it!

Southern Style Bacon Wrapped Roasted Chicken with Roasted Sweet Potatoes

Mad Man Molasses & Oats Whole Wheat Bread

This is bread has a nice sweetness along with a nice flavor from the oats and whole wheat. This has one of those perfect combinations to bring instantaneous comfort when eaten. Warm from the oven a slice of this bread with some sweet butter and all your cares will melt away. Lets make some bread.

Molasses & Oats Whole Wheat Bread

Southern Style Bacon Wrapped Roasted Chicken with Roasted Sweet Potatoes Part 1

This is a great dinner for any day of the week and spectacular for the weekends. This is a great way to make a roasted chicken taste even better. Plus the leftover makes great soup and an unbelievable chicken salad.

The first part of this great dish is brining the chicken to help the chicken stay moist, juicy and chicken-licious good! If you have not brined meat in the past, now is the time to try. I know some people think it will make the chicken salty, but it won't. It will make your chicken taste great! Let's brine some chicken!

Brine for Chicken

The KISS (Keep It Super Simple) Chicken Caesar Salad

It is Friday and I needed to keep it simple for dinner so I decided to take the KISS philosophy and Keep It Super Simple with a Chicken Caesar Salad. A nice healthy, nutritious, and flavorful! It is very comforting in the fact it is easy to make and I really love Caesar salads.

Chicken Caesar Salad

15 bean Chicken & Chorizo Soup

I am a huge lover of beans and 15 bean soup is a favorite of mine. The addition of chicken and chorizo makes it that much better. The bean lovers in your family really enjoy a bowl of this delicious soup. The combination of the beans, the spice of the sausage, and the chicken flavor along with the spices will induce comfort almost immediately. I hope you enjoy the soup as much as I do.

5 Grain Blackstrap Bread

I had the baking bug today and had a taste for bread. I developed this recipe this afternoon and if I do say so myself it turned out to be very good. It has a nice sweet nutty flavor with a nice grainy texture to complete the all around flavor experience. This is a variation of J's Oatmeal Bread that can be found here. This is a good bread for toast, french toast, and great for any kind of nut butter and fruit spread sandwich, like peanut butter and jelly, or almond butter and jam. Enough gabbing and lets make some bread.

5 Grain Blackstrap Bread

Comfort Food 101 - The Reuben Sandwich w/ Potato Salad

Grilled sandwiches are one of those quintessential comfort foods. Offering just the perfect combination of warmth and love. The hot meat with gooey cheese running down the sides. The crunch of the toasted bread add the perfect final touch to complete the great comforting feel. I like many different types of grilled sandwiches; hot ham & cheese, patty melts, tuna melts, and of course the famous Reuben. I love Reubens very much and my Mom loves them too. So tonight we had our favorite hot sandwiches The Reuben.

Reuben Sandwich w/ Redskin Potato Salad

Comfort Food: cooking from the heart: Mr Christopher Thomas Harker: 9781508773795: Amazon.com: Books

Comfort Food: cooking from the heart: Mr Christopher Thomas Harker: 9781508773795: Amazon.com: Books

Southern Style Down Home Rib Dinner Part 4 The Dinner!!

Finally everything has come together for my trifecta of comfort! A southern style rib dinner with all the fixin's macaroni & cheese and potato salad. I'm in heaven and all the world seems perfect if not for just a short while. The tender succulent ribs, cheesy goodness, followed up by some sweet starchy greatness of potato salads. Let's get eating!

Southern Style Down Home Rib Dinner

Super Double Cheese Mac & Cheese

This is a perfect comfort food, it is hard to beat good old mac & cheese when you need comfort. There is just something about hot bubbling cheese combined with the macaroni that just makes life feel better when you need some comfort. Now serve the mac & cheese with some potato salad and ribs and you have the trifecta of comfort. Time to make some macaroni and cheese!

Super Double Cheese Mac & Cheese

Southern Style Redskin Potato Salad

Here we go with another big weakness of mine Potato Salad, in particular Redskin Potato Salad. If you are a regular reader You know I'm getting a Southern Rib dinner together for tomorrow night at potato is a crucial part of the equation. There is something that is so comforting about potato salad. It is just a perfect combination of great flavors in all it's starchy goodness. The most important part of making a great potato salad is to make it one day in advance. Well lets get some potato salad made, I'm getting hungry!

Southern Style Redskin Potato Salad

Southern Style Down Home Rib Dinner Part 2 Brine O' Mine

Hi Folks in part 2 we will brine our succulent pork spareribs. I cannot emphasis enough how great brine is when cooking meats. I guess my brine slogan would be "Brine, it's not just for pickles and corned beef" I just love how it helps keep meat nice so moist and tender, my mouth just waters talking about it. Enough rambling let us brine some ribs.

Spareribs in brine

Southern Style Down Home Rib Dinner Part 1 Brine O' Mine

Chris' Famous Southern Style Molasses Brine

I've had a deep desire for a good old fashion down home southern style rib dinner. I'm talking the whole nine yards; macaroni and cheese, potato salad, baked beans, and of course some succulent falling off the bone spare ribs. I am currently in the north so firing up the bbq pit is out of the question. Therefore, these will be oven style ribs which when done right can be just as good as cooked in a bbq pit.

The first step is to brine the ribs. Many of us have forgotten the value of brine or don't know about the miraculous tool that brine is when working with meat. Whether it is pork, beef, chicken, lamb, and even fish. Here is a really good and simple brine recipe that works great for pork, ribs in particular.

I know many of you are saying "That looks like swamp water", etc.. Well let me tell you that this beautiful salty yet sweet ebony hued nectar of the BBQ gods will be one of the best things to happen to your ribs. EVER! Now let me tell you how to make this savory bit of delight.

Baked Beans - Slow Cooker Style

I love beans just about any way you cook them but there something about baked beans that I really love. In the summer with burgers and dogs or in the dead of winter with pork loin and baked apples. I just love them!

Baked Beans - Slow Cooker Style

Portabella Mushroom Burger with Southern Style Sweet Potato Fries

I had a serious desire for some comfort today and there are few foods that bring comfort than a cheeseburger. So tonights dinner was Mushroom Cheeseburgers with Sweet Potatoes Fries and it hit the spot head on!

Mushroom Cheeseburger w/ Sweet Potato Fries

Southern Style Sweet Potato Fries

When I moved to the south I gained a unique appreciation for the sweet potato. I really love them and sweet potato fries have got to be one of my favorite ways to eat them. I find that anything sweet ,even a potato can bring a lot of comfort and quickly. I like this particular recipe because the are done in the oven and you don't have to deal with the deep fryer.