GCC: Steak Pizzaiola

April 14, 2013 by Monica in Beef, Cookbooks, Cooking Club, Dinner, Gutsy Cooks Club, Main Courses, Meat, Pasta

This weeks Gutsy Cook choice used chuck steak as the star of this dish, and then braise it under this rich spicy tomato sauce. The results were simply magical in our house. At the end of a 2-hour oven stay, the meat was pull apart tender, infused with this rich taste of tomatoes with a kick of spice. What could be better than that for a lazy weekend meal? Nothing, it hit the right spot with our taste buds.

We love the idea of making a big bowl of rigatoni to go along with this; instead we opted to make some mashed potatoes to soak up that sauce after we found out our pantry was low on pasta and no rigatoni option to be found.

GCC: Baked Chicken with Honey-Whole Grain Mustard Glaze

April 07, 2013 by Monica in Chicken, Cooking Club, Gutsy Cooks Club

I’m so happy that we started up the Gutsy Cook Club – actually if I’m honest Tom is more excited than anyone, since he now gets to eat “real” food. I have to say for the last couple of months we have eaten crap. Ok, maybe that is a bit extreme, we eat food, but nothing new, mostly dishes that were fast and have been posted on the blog before and frankly Tom got use to having something new every weekend when I would put my Gutsy Cook hat on, when I told him we were back and and that this weekend we were having a new recipe, he shouted “YES!, glad you are back!”.

If that is not a hint, I don’t know what is.

Gutsy Cook April Recipe line up is posted

April 05, 2013 by Monica in Cooking Club, Gutsy Cooks Club

And we start again - new cooks, new format and new recipes!

April’s Gutsy Cook Recipe line up is posted and ready to be cooked.

Want to join us?

Once a week we cook a recipe from the Gutsy Cook choosen cookbook/magazine recipe.

Since this is my month, we are cooking from 2 favorite cookbooks of mine - MAD Hungry and MAD Hungry Cravings from Lucinda Scala Quinn. You guys remember these luscious Braised Short Ribs

They have become our go to short rib recipe.

We are big fans of Mrs. Scala Quinn around the M+P house. So I have high hopes for the choosen recipes, my kitchen will be hopping the next 4 weeks.