Not A Chef

04/23/2025

The BEST Pasta Salad! Quick, Easy, and Tasty!

04/16/2025

Met up with the guys from North Carolina in Tuskegee, Alabama to visit and pay our respects at the Tuskegee Airmen Museum! Shout out to Robert and the team at Harley-Davidson of Montgomery for keeping me on the road and safe!

04/05/2025

First time making Carbonara! Vincenzo's Plate

04/03/2025

I got 10 reactions and comments on one of my posts last week! Thanks everyone for your support! 🎉

03/16/2025

Easy weekday meal! It’s always a good day for chicken cutlets! Season your chicken, flour, and bread crumbs and get to cooking!

03/12/2025

The most flavorful Seafood Bisque! A scrumptious mix of velvety bisque imparted with just the right amount of sweet lobster tail and shrimp. These flavors come together for the perfect combination of down home comfort and upscale culinary technique. Hope you enjoy! Like, comment, and subscribe!

03/02/2025

Hashbrown Casserole MY way! An easy Side Dish for a weekday or a weekend meal! Enjoy.

02/23/2025

How many of yall call this a “casserole” at home? Your baked beans BETTER have ground beef in them or you won’t be invited back! Count y’all’s days! Yall going too far with this ish! 🤣🤣🤣

Baked Beans & Ground Beef Casserole
Ingredients
1 lb ground beef
1 medium yellow onion, diced
1 medium green bell pepper, diced
1 cup ketchup
1 tsp mustard
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
2 (15 oz) cans pork and beans (do not drain)
salt & black pepper, to taste
1 TBS butter
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9 x 13 baking dish with butter.
In deep skillet brown up ground beef until no longer pink. Add in onion and bell pepper and cook until softened. Drain excess grease.
NOTE: you can substitute half of the bell pepper for jalapeno or poblano to give an extra flavor level of heat.
Add in ketchup and stir to combine. Add in mustard, Worcestershire, and brown sugar. Stir to combine. Taste for seasoning and season with salt & black pepper to taste.
Add in pork and beans with the juice. Stir carefully to combine.
Pour baked beans & ground beef mixture into prepared baking dish and smooth evenly. Cover and seal dish with foil.
Bake in preheated oven for 45 minutes. Enjoy.

01/27/2025

Okra and Tomatoes

5 slices of chopped bacon
1 diced onion
1 diced green bell pepper
2 stalks of celery, diced
4-6 cloves minced garlic
2 14.5 oz cans of diced tomatoes
1 TBS sugar
2 tsp fresh thyme
1 bay leaf
1/2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp Cajun seasoning
2 Cups frozen chopped okra
Salt and pepper to taste

Saute bacon until brown
Add trinity, saute for 3-5 minutes
Add garlic, saute 2-3 more minutes
Stir in tomatoes
Add seasonings and Worcestershire sauce and bay leaf
Cover, Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes
Add okra, simmer for 7-8 minutes more
Salt and pepper to taste
Serve over rice!
Enjoy!

12/18/2024

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎

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11/19/2024

Garlic Herb Pan Sauce for Chicken Breasts

4 cooked chicken breasts (use the same skillet for the sauce)
3 tablespoon butter
5 clove garlic, minced
1 cup chicken broth
1 cup heavy cream (or half and half)
4oz Sun dried tomatoes (chopped)
1 TBS fresh chopped parsley
1 TBS fresh chopped rosemary
1 TBS fresh chopped chives or thyme
1 tsp better than boullion roasted chicken
1 tsp better than boullion Italian herb
1 tsp better than boullion roasted garlic
Salt and pepper, to taste

11/18/2024

Whiskey Sour…because y’all are too old to be taking shots!

2 oz Bourbon (you can use any whiskey)
3/4 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
3/4 oz Simple Sugar
2 shakes of fee foam or frothed egg whites
Mix in shaker or glass and pour over ice.