Rice Dishes

Favorite rice recipes from Cooking Secrets for Men

Arroz Con Gandules 2

Arroz Con Gandules

Arroz Con Gandules (Puerto Rican Rice with Pigeon Peas) and Avocado slices. On Cooking with Milwaukee Community Leaders, host Charlie sits down with Vincent Lyles, Executive Director of Milwaukee Succeeds. They discuss his Milwaukee roots, varied career, and the organization’s focus on improving early childhood education across the city. You […]

Easy Paella ready for serving

Easy Paella- Quick and Tasty

Easy Paella – one of those dishes that carries an entire landscape, a whole rhythm of life, inside the pan. If you love the cultural heartbeat behind food, you’ll appreciate this easy paella. It perfectly exemplifies how a dish becomes a story. Paella & Public Policy: Cooking with Lafayette Crump. […]

Green Pea Risotto Primavera

Risotto Primavera & Alex Pawlak Interview

Risotto Primavera & Alex Pawlak Interview – Risotto Primavera is a delightful Italian dish that celebrates the fresh flavors of spring. Risotto Primavera translates to “spring risotto.” It’s made by slowly cooking rice in broth, wine, and olive oil with springtime vegetables and herbs. Alex Pawlak is a personal chef […]

Leftover Chicken Biryani

Leftover Chicken Biryani

Leftover Chicken Biryani – I made a roasted chicken for dinner the other day. Served with root vegetables. It was very tasty. But the smallest roaster I could find at the grocery store was 6.5 lbs. That’s a lot of chicken for two people, So we had a lot of […]

Serving of Easy Feijoada

Easy Feijoada – Brazilian National Dish

Easy Feijoada – Feijoada is a traditional Brazilian black bean stew. Today, I am making a special recipe request from my trainer, Renata. Renata works for a company that is in my building here in Milwaukee. It is a gym /Physical Therapy /Training company, and Renata is one of the […]

Cheese on top of roasted stuffed peppers

Vegetarian Stuffed Peppers

Vegetarian Stuffed Peppers with Congresswoman Gwen Moore –  Vegetarian stuffed peppers, baked twice and filled with a cheesy taco-seasoned, bean-and-rice mixture, are an easy, healthy meal. Our guest on Cooking with Milwaukee Community Leaders is Rep Gwen Moore, our Congresswoman from Milwaukee (WI-4). She is a 10-term congresswoman, the first […]