Wow Chow Cooking

I hate Spanish Rice! Yuuuuuuk! So I’ve never made it in my life. But we had a houseful of hungry boys one evening and I was very short on supplies. Here’s what I threw together, and they devoured the entire dish with great gusto. The recipe takes advantage of leftovers, or you can make everything [...]

This recipe makes a nice, light meal for those end-of-summer-but-still-hot summer days. It’s also a good one to have on hand after Thanksgiving, when you are burdened with a superfluity of turkey leftovers! It has curry, one of those rare spices that has a name that has actually been converted into a verb. (Think about [...]

We did a little experimenting this weekend with some zucchini, seeing we have a massive zucchini population explosion going on here at the Mecomber homestead. I posted about my Stuffed Zucchini recipe here, gushing about how versatile it is, etc etc. Well, my beloved daughter yanked herself away from her stereo cabinet and computer for [...]

I do crockpot meals once or twice a week, because I babysit a bunch of kids, and have to serve meals for 10 (yes, 10!!!) four times a week. With the crockpot, I can throw everything into the pot at 10am, and LEAVE IT BE allll day. Wow, let’s give some hearty huzzahs to the [...]

This is not your average American-style chili recipe. I actually made it up when I was out of a certain number of ingredients (isn’t that how all recipes are eventually created, lol?). Wow Chow Chili, as most of my recipes are, can be completely customized according to your likes. I like my chili only a [...]

We LOVE lasagna. But it is so time-consuming to make. And you have to pre-cook the lasagna noodles just right, or they turn out too chewy or too mushy. I’ve tried those “oven-ready” lasagna noodles, too, and I can’t stand them. I want to eat my lasagna, not chew it like cud! Plus, lasagna just [...]