Recipe Index

Carne Adovada

South Carolina Ribs with Mustard BBQ Sauce

South Carolina Mustard BBQ Sauce

South Carolina Mustard BBQ Sauce

Smoked Potato Salad is a must try and easy to make. Instead of boiling the potatoes I smoked them first with the usual ingredients plus bacon for the win.

Smoked Potato Salad with Bacon

This is my version of the classic Chili's Monterey Chicken recipe where I cook the chicken on the grill instead of stove top and does it ever make a difference! BBQ sauce, bacon, and peppers instead of tomatoes, make this Grilled Monterey Chicken a dinner your whole family will love.

Grilled Monterey Chicken

This Sweet Pork Dry Rub is balanced with sweet dark brown sugar for that kiss of molasses, and temper with garlic, onion, chili and cayenne powder

Sweet Pork Dry Rub

Dry rubbed with a sweet and spicy rub, these grilled pork chops are cooked to tender perfection and topped with a fresh cherry salsa.

Grilled Pork Chops and Cherry Salsa

This Buffalo Baked Mac and Cheese is super creamy with 3 cheeses, lots of chopped Buffalo sauced chicken and a fantastic bleu cheese breadcrumb topping baked to a golden brown. This feeds a crowd, or halve it for a mid-week dinner, too.

Buffalo Chicken Mac and Cheese

A Tex Mex favorite and staple at many restaurants, Grilled Steak Fajitas are the perfect blend of well seasoned steak charred with bell peppers and onions all wrapped in a warm tortilla.

Grilled Steak Fajitas

Blondies are basically a brownie without the cocoa in the batter. Baked to a golden brown these are loaded with walnuts and topped with Rocky Road candy.

Rocky Road Blondies

These Authentic Mexican Pickled Carrots are a great make-it-at-home version that are just like the ones you get at Mexican restaurants and so easy to make!

Authentic Mexican Pickled Carrots

These baked, pepper jack cheese Stuffed Green Chili Meatballs are made with ground turkey, ground oats instead of breadcrumbs and a tomatillo sauce.

Stuffed Green Chile Meatballs

Homemade Cornbread

Authentic Mexican Rice

Pan Seared Blackened Ahi Tuna. Fresh fish, seasoned to Cajun perfection and seared for a quick and healthy dinner. www.keviniscooking.com

Pan Seared Blackened Ahi Tuna

For my Alabama Style Chicken Sandwich you have tender, shredded chicken that’s been tossed with Alabama White sauce and topped with dill pickles all on a toasted and buttered hamburger bun.

Alabama Style Chicken Sandwich

This Summer Pasta Salad has an incredible Cilantro Ranch dressing and lots of fresh vegetables, nuts and cheese, too. Add rotisserie chicken if you like.

Summer Pasta Salad

BBQ Spatchcock Chicken

Alabama White Sauce (White BBQ Sauce)

Frito pie is an American dish popular in the Southwest for being crunchy, spicy, and cheesy. Here’s my take using Fritos corn chips, my chili con carne and lots of cheese for an easy dinner twist on this crunchy classic.

My Frito Pie Recipe

These Cowboy Beans are an old school, Tex Mex style simply using soaked pinto beans and slow cooking them until tender. For the flavor punch you add a sautéed mixture of bacon, onion, garlic, jalapeño and cumin. These are outstanding and so simple.

Slow Cooker Cowboy Beans

These Shortbread Lemon Bars are tart, sweet and the shortbread crust is crumbly soft. The perfect summer picnic dessert that can be enjoyed year round! keviniscooking.com

Shortbread Lemon Bars

These Mexican Beans and Corn (Frijoles con Elote) get a flavor boost from a mixture called a sofrito that’s made of chiles, onion and garlic dry roasted then blended together. Top with cheese and pumpkin seeds and it's a fantastic side dish.

Mexican Black Beans and Corn (Frijoles con Elote)

Swedish Meatballs with Gravy

Dates, walnuts and bacon get chopped and blended with nut butter, oats and dried cherries for these no bake Savory Walnut Breakfast Bars. We often take these on hikes with the dogs and for easy snacking or whenever hunger hits.

Savory Walnut Breakfast Bars

Barbacoa Beef Bowls. www.keviniscooking.com

Barbacoa Beef Bowls

These Huli Huli Smoked Pork Ribs start with baby backs that are marinated overnight in pineapple juice, soy sauce, ginger, garlic and few other pantry items. Slowly smoked over mesquite to sticky sweet goodness.

Huli Huli Ribs

Fresh peaches top this amazingly fluffy no bake cheesecake bar with a ground oat an graham cracker base. So good! Double this, they go quick every time. www.keviniscooking.com

No Bake Peach Cheesecake Bars

Smoked BBQ Meatballs

This here is real deal Chili Con Carne! Made with chopped beef chuck, ground pork and a puree of soaked ancho and guajillo chiles, garlic, cumin, and other spices that simmers and thickens for a perfect Tex Mex chili meal.

Real Chili Con Carne

Tex Mex Hot Corn Dip

Parmesan Crusted Chicken with Mustard Cream Sauce

Nothing quite satisfies like a little dessert after a meal, and if it's summer, then it's time for some Old Fashioned Cherry Crisp. Bing cherries covered in a simple flour, sugar, oat and egg crumble that gets melted butter poured on top and baked to a golden brown.

Old Fashioned Cherry Crisp

Another winner using pantry spices like white pepper, chili powder and paprika, this Chicken Lazone is super tender, loaded with flavor and the cream sauce to die for. Served over noodles to soak up the delicious sauce, this is on the table in under 30 minutes.

Chicken Lazone

This south of the border, tropical influenced, Mango Pico de Gallo is a hit every time. Sweet and tangy pieces of mango mixed with diced peppers, jicama, red onion and cilantro all marinate in fresh lime juice, cumin and garlic.

Mango Pico de Gallo

Barbecue Pineapple Chicken