Garlic, Balsamic & Herb Goat Cheese Pizza

This recipe is perfect for a quick and easy gourmet lunch, dinner, or savory-sweet dessert.  The Balsamic Garlic Herb Jam enhances the pear and goat cheese in this rustic dish.  A definite must-try!

Ingredients

• Boboli or other packaged pizza dough
• Olive oil
• 1/2 cup Terrapin Ridge Farms Balsamic Garlic Herb Jam
• 1 D'Anjou pear, sliced thin
• ½ cup pecans chopped
• Goat Cheese about 3 ounces, crumbled 

Preparation

Brush top surface of pizza dough with olive oil. Spread a layer of Balsamic Garlic Herb Jam on top of oil. Add goat cheese, sliced pears and pecans.  Bake in a 400 degrees F oven for 12-15 minutes.  Enjoy!

Fish Tacos With Cilantro Lime Dressing Recipe

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Fish Tacos With Cilantro Lime Dressing Recipe

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Difficulty:  Easy

Does your family love tacos? Our family loves tacos! Taco night, in some form, appears on the menu, usually once a week in our household, and fish tacos are a special treat.

This fish taco recipe is flexible enough for whatever white fish you prefer. It features Cherchies® Select Grilling Rub, mango salsa (you could easily substitute our Cherchies® Vidalia Onion Peach Salsa), and an addicting homemade Cilantro Lime Dressing.

This recipe was a massive hit with my family and a great change-up to taco night! So, try this recipe the next time you crave fish tacos. It is an easy, flavorful recipe that your gang will love, too.  

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Ingredients

• 1 1/2 Tablespoons (Tbsp) Cherchies® Select Grilling Rub and Seasoning Blend

• 4 Tablespoons (Tbsp) Cilantro Lime Dressing (recipe below)

• 1 1/2 lb red snapper fillets (or favorite meaty, flaky, white fish)

• 1 lime sliced into slices

• 8 each (6-inch) corn tortillas

• 2 cups shredded coleslaw mix (pre-packaged at the grocery store)

• Prepared mango salsa (purchased from the grocery store)- Or, use Cherchies® Black Bean & Corn Salsa or Cherchies® Vidalia Onion Peach Salsa

• 1 teaspoon (tsp) Cherchies® Chardonnay Lime & Cilantro Seasoning

• cooking spray

• Shredded cheddar cheese (optional)

• 2 Tablespoons (Tbsp) chopped cilantro

Ingredients for Cilantro Lime Dressing (Click HERE for the blog post)

• 1 Tablespoon (Tbsp.) Cherchies® Chardonnay Lime & Cilantro Seasoning (more to taste)

• 1/4 teaspoon (tsp.) ground pepper

• 1/2 cup mayonnaise

• 1/2 cup sour cream

• 1 bunch of cilantro, stems included

• 2 cloves garlic

• 1 small jalapeno, seeds removed, roughly chopped

• 1/3 to 1/2 cups half and half

• Zest of half a lime

• Juice of half a lime

• *Optional- add one tomatillo, hulled and cut in half

** Blend all ingredients in a blender until smooth.

Taco Preparation

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.  Meanwhile, pulse the coleslaw mix and Cilantro Lime Dressing in a food processor or blender until finely chopped. Set aside the coleslaw mixture.

Sprinkle Cherchies® Select Grilling Rub & Seasoning Blend evenly over both sides of the fish. Place the fish on a baking sheet coated with cooking spray. Place lime slices on the fish and bake at 425 degrees for 9 minutes or until the fish flakes easily when tested with a fork. When the fish has been cooked, remove it from the oven and squeeze any remaining lime juice from the lime over the cooked fish.

In a small bowl, add mango salsa and sprinkle the salsa with Cherchies® Chardonnay Lime & Cilantro Seasoning Blend. Mix the salsa and the seasoning to combine.  Set aside. 

Now it's time to assemble the tacos.  One option is to create a taco bar for your guests and place the ingredients in separate bowls so they can create their own tacos.  The other option is simply to arrange the tacos on a platter and serve them all at once.  I prefer the former method.

Place the fish in a bowl, and break the fish into pieces with a fork. Heat the tortillas according to the package directions.  Divide the fish evenly among tortillas.  Top the fish with the coleslaw mixture, followed by the mango salsa mixture.

Next, top each taco with a 1/4 cup coleslaw mixture and 1 tbsp of the Cilantro Lime Dressing.   Finish the tacos by sprinkling cheese and chopped cilantro over the top the tacos.

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Serve the tacos with our vegetable bean salad for a light, refreshing satisfying meal.  Ole!  Enjoy!

Grilled Muffuletta Recipe

Grilled Muffuletta Recipe

Cook Time: 20 minutes  Difficulty: Easy

Today is Mardi Gras, or "Fat Tuesday", and in honor of this celebration I share with you my version of "The Muffuletta", grilled with melty provolone cheese, salty olives and salami, ham, sweet roasted peppers, and Hot Banana Pepper Mustard.  Making your mouth water?

My hubby and I and a few friends traveled to New Orleans (aka NOLA) for the first time recently and had the most sinfully delicious sandwich, "The Muffuletta" from The Central Grocery in The French Quarter. This gargantuan sandwich is made with homemade bread and stuffed with layers of ham, salami, cheeses, and a tasty olive salad.  Seriously insane.  Talk about a flavor party in your mouth!

My version has all the flavors sans some of the the guilt.  The Banana Hot Pepper Mustard is the "piece de resistance" of this sandwich.  Go ahead and try it, it's the perfect Fat Tuesday sandwich or anytime you have a hankering for salty olives and salami, ham, sweet roasted peppers, tangy mustard, and gooey melty cheese.  Everything in moderation, right?  Here's how it's made.  This recipe serves 2.

Happy Mardi Gras!

Ingredients (per sandwich)

• 2 Tablespoons (Tbsp) Cherchies® Hot Banana Pepper Mustard

• 1/4 cup chopped pitted black olives

• 1/4 cup chopped pitted green olives

• 1/4 cup chopped salami

• 1/4 cup cubed Provolone, chopped (optional)

• 1/4 cup Pepperoncini, seeds removed, chopped

• 1/2 jar Cherchies® Pretty Peppers

• 4 slices of good fresh bread (Here I used sourdough bread)

• 4 slices Provolone Cheese

• 2 Tablespoons (Tbsp) butter

Preparation

Chop the olives, provolone chunks (optional), salami, and pepperoncini into small pieces (In the second picture the salami had not been chopped fine enough).  In a medium bowl, mix the olives, Provolone, salami, Pretty Peppers, and pepperoncini.

Turn griddle (or pan) onto medium.  Spread softened butter or olive oil onto bread.  Place buttered bread onto griddle.  Grill until desired consistency.  

Turn oven onto broil.  Now, let's build this glorious sandwich.  Spread Cherchies® Hot Banana Pepper Mustard on the grilled slices of bread that are facing up.  Add ham then the olive mixture (oops, sorry about the ham picture).

Now for the melty "glue".  Place the slices of Provolone cheese over the olive mixture and broil the sandwiches open faced until cheese has melted (only a few minutes).

When the cheese has melted, carefully put the halves together, and cut sandwich in half.  Is your mouth watering yet?  Mine is:)  The perfect sandwich anytime, not just for Mardi Gras.  Enjoy!

Champagne Blackberry Grilled Ham and Cheese Recipe

Champagne Blackberry Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Cooking Time: 8 minutes  

Difficulty: Easy

AAhh, grilled cheese sandwiches are the perfect comfort food. How can you go wrong with bread, butter, and cheese? Life doesn't get much better than gooey, melty, cheesy sandwiches, especially on a cold, snowy weekend. How about gooey, melty, cheesy sandwiches with salty ham, tangy Champagne Mustard, sweet Blackberry Preserves, and brie cheese? Yes, please! 

Our family spent most of the weekend digging out and snow-blowing almost 30" of snow, courtesy of The Jonas Blizzard. It was "all hands on deck," except for Mom, as I volunteered for lunch duty. It's a shame we only had enough shovels for our teenagers. :) Lunch duty is essential. 

To reward my hard-working blizzard bunnies, I made their meal of choice: grilled ham and cheese sandwiches, but with a twist. It's always a gamble to introduce a new dish to my family, but my family is used to it. Still, our family has a "one bite rule" (they have to try it, but they don't have to like it), so I seized the moment and added Cherchies® Champagne Mustard and Cherchies® Blackberry Preserves to their grilled ham and cheese sandwiches...and waited...

"Mom, these are so good!" Music to my ears! (Whew!) 

Are you a grilled cheese sandwich fan looking for a new recipe to tantalize your tastebuds? Then try this recipe, featuring a salty-sweet combination of ham, brie cheese, Cherchies® Blackberry Preserves, and Cherchies® Champagne Mustard. You will not be disappointed.

What are your favorite Cherchies® grilled cheese combinations? Comment below. And if you send us your recipe, we'll post it on our blog:) That would be fun, as would an entire blog post on grilled cheese recipes. Yum!

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Ingredients (per sandwich)

• Bread (we used multi-grain bread)

• 1 Tablespoon (Tbsp) Cherchies® Champagne Mustard

• 1 Tablespoon (Tbsp) Cherchies® Blackberry Preserves

• 2 slices of ham (we used ham off the bone)

• Brie cheese

• 2 Tablespoons (Tbsp) softened butter (1 Tablespoon per side)

Preparation

Butter the outside of each slice of bread.  Add Cherchies® Champagne Mustard to one slice of bread and Cherchies® Blackberry Preserves to the other.  Add brie cheese and ham.  Grill open-faced for a couple of minutes to crisp up each slice of bread.  Then combine halves to allow the cheese to melt.

Enjoy this melty, cheesy comforting sandwich!  Your taste buds will sing!

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