Category: Recipes

  • Turkey Turnovers – Geek Eats Recipe

    Turkey Turnovers – Geek Eats Recipe

    Thanksgiving is the time to sit back and reflect on all that we are thankful for. It’s a time for spending time with family, watching parades, watching/playing football, and oh yes… eating Turkey. Inevitably there is leftover turkey though. For some, leftovers can be quite stressful. In my family, though this is not the case.…

  • Pumpkin Muffins – Geek Eats Recipe

    Pumpkin Muffins – Geek Eats Recipe

    For many, Halloween means the appearance of pumpkins and then the week after those poor rotted pumpkins end up in garbage cans. My family always had a different approach though. Pumpkins were carved the day of Halloween and then baked the next day before they could go bad. They were then pureed for immediate use…

  • Geek Eats- Pumpkin Crazy!

    Greetings Foodies! Welcome to this week’s Geek Eats! This week I’m going to be discussing an appropriate topic for the month of October, pumpkin! It’s the time of year in which it seems the aisles of the grocery store are painted orange. Even my local Trader Joes is touting over 60 different pumpkin products (I’m…

  • Geek Eats Chef Spotlight – Richard Rodriguez

    As a part of Geek Eats I not only want to talk about food but those who prepare it as well. For that reason, I thought it might be fun to spotlight some chefs. I decided to start with one of my best friends who also happens to be an executive chef here in Phoenix.…

  • Grilled Mixed Baby Potatoes – Geek Eats Recipe

    I’m all about easy recipes that can be grilled in the backyard and not heat up the kitchen in the summer. While visiting the market one day I came across a bag of Mixed Baby Potatoes and this recipe was the culmination of that discovery. It also has become a favorite around my house. Oh,…

  • Backyard Salmon – Geek Eats Recipe

    My backyard right now is full of wonderfully delicious smells and tastes. There are herbs, fruit trees, and vegetables growing (despite the heat) and creating wonderful ingredients for creating fresh recipes. I found a deal on salmon at the market so I thought it would be fun to mix and match a few recipes and…

  • Geek Eats- Taco Tuesday!

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    Greetings Foodies! Welcome to this edition of Geek Eats! This week’s topic is very near and dear to my heart. I’m going to talk about my favorite day of the week, no not Friday, Taco Tuesday! Taco Tuesday is a popular cultural phenomenon in which, like it describes, people eat tacos on Tuesday. This was…

  • Geek Eats- Hatch Chile Season is Here!

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    Greetings Foodies! Welcome to this edition of Geek Eats! Today’s blog is going to be a bit spicy because it’s Hatch Chile season! That’s right; I’m going to be discussing the glorious Hatch chile. For a basic definition, Hatch chiles are grown in the Hatch Valley, an area stretching north and south along the Rio…

  • Disney Recipes: Champurrado Casero – Disneyland Park

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    The holidays bring lots of special treats to the Disneyland Resort. These treats add another dimension of magic to any trip to the Disneyland Resort (or any other Disney Theme Park). One of these treats to add that magical layer to your palate is Champurrado Casero. This year, you can bring some of the magic…