I am a big fan of 3-bean and 4-bean salads but prefer something with a little more substance, variety, and depth of flavor than what is typically available from grocery stores or delicatessens. Here is my favorite combination.
Steve’s Chocolate Éclairs
Chocolate éclairs are just about my favorite dessert. There are generally three types of fillings: custard, cream, and pudding. I tend to prefer the former. But here I make all three and combine them. My view is that if you have a favorite, you will find the taste you like. So far, in a sampling of several dozen, I believe I have found the desired effect.
Steve’s Quinoa Edamame Salad
I developed this salad based upon the Emperor’s Select Salad that is sometimes available in Safeway’s Deli Section and is Quinoa Edamame salad. I didn’t know all of the ingredients, but I continued to adapt my version until I got to a point where really like this for flavor and content, much better than the starting point. It seems to disappear whenever I make it. My guests say the salad grows on them. They think it’s interesting on the first bite, but then it sneaks up on them and they find themselves getting seconds and/or snacking on it. I believe it can keep in the refrigerator for up to a week, if it lasts that long. I hope you enjoy it.
Steve’s Cornbread Waffle Grilled Cheese
This is a healthier, tasty, replacement for the classic grilled cheese sandwich. It is based upon gluten-free, cornbread waffles uses as the sandwich bread combined with melted cheese filling. Kids will love the cheese and cornbread combination. Adults might prefer a little zip so jalapenos can be added to the waffle mix and/or one of the melted cheeses could be a pepper jack. Although the waffles and waffle sandwiches can be made ahead and saved for future snacks, don’t be surprised if whatever gets made gets consumed at the first seating. 🙂
Chicken Spectacular
This is Nancy’s signature dish for company (other than vegetarians). We use it as a main course or as a side course to a hearty meal. My main goal is to get her to make it, collect rave reviews from the guests, but then I get to have it for left-over snacks for the next several days. The dish is much better than the ingredients imply. This originally came for the Sloan Class of 1989 Cookbook.
Golden Wassail
Nancy and her family always have lots of Golden Wassail available to help create the right holiday cheer. This was a specialty of Mood Price, Nancy’s dad.
Pineapple Cheese Casserole
This is a favorite disk we discovered at an Embry-Riddle Spruance Hall pot-luck lunch. Former Academics Executive Assistant Ingrid Weeks brought this dish to pass and we had to have seconds and collect the recipe from her.
Steve’s Cornbread Waffle Grilled Cheese (Gluten Free)
This is a healthier, tasty, replacement for the classic grilled cheese sandwich. It is based upon gluten-free, cornbread waffles uses as the sandwich bread combined with melted cheese filling. Kids will love the cheese and cornbread combination.