Culinary

Sausage, Salsa & Cotija Breakfast Burrito Kitchen Improvisation Sausage, Salsa & Cotija Breakfast Burrito A scrappy, what’s-in-the-fridge breakfast that turned out better than planned, breakfast sausage and salsa simmered down, folded through soft scrambled eggs, and finished with crumbled Cotija and cilantro, all rolled up and ready to go. The Story This one started as a fridge inventory check. A pound of breakfast sausage, a disc of Cotija, a jar of salsa, nothing more ambitious than that. But breakfast sausage and salsa practically beg to be simmered together, and once you fold in soft scrambled eggs and a crumble of

Zuppa Toscana: Reimagined A weeknight soup, rebuilt Zuppa Toscana: Reimagined I started with the Instant Pot version everyone makes, then kept pulling threads — duck fat instead of butter, bacon before the Italian sausage, less cream, allowing the rendered fat to do it’s work. The result was a complexity of layers that isn’t always present in this soup. 25 minactive + pressure 6servings Duck fatand rendered bacon Why I changed it The recipe that got me here is a familiar one — the Instant Pot Olive Garden copycat everybody’s made at some point: sausage, potatoes, kale, cream, done in under