Chef Steve Bland's Recipes for Love

  • 4th of July Surprise
    Chef Steve Bland's Recipes for Love

    4th of July Surprise

    Impress your meat-loving friends by bringing a couple of potato treats that are great for veggie heads and non-veggies. Our old friend, the potato, has come to visit us on the 4th...but with a twist! 

  • Fun Recipes Using Your Farmers’ Market
    Chef Steve Bland's Recipes for Love

    Fun Recipes Using Your Farmers’ Market

    The act of shopping at farmers’ markets all across America all summer long makes for great summer memories. With that said, here are a few recipes to share and create new memories using fresh foods found at the farmers’ markets.

  • Food From the Heart, For the Heart
    Chef Steve Bland's Recipes for Love

    Food From the Heart, For the Heart

    This combination of healthy, delicious food (that is also very wallet-friendly) makes beans and rice the perfect meal for you and your loved one’s health.

  • Finding Comfort in a Slow Cooker
    Chef Steve Bland's Recipes for Love

    Finding Comfort in a Slow Cooker

    Like a good U.S. Marine, a good cook can improvise and adapt!  Using a slow cooker (crock pot) and a little imagination, a winter night can become a night to remember.

  • Spice Up Your Valentine’s Day with Dinner For Two
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    Spice Up Your Valentine’s Day with Dinner For Two

    As an appetizer, we’re serving two warm bodies and plenty of love.  What you do with the combination of the above ingredients is your choice but it is recommended that clothing is optional. 

  • Let’s Party for the Superbowl!
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    Let’s Party for the Superbowl!

    After 17 weeks of regular season football and two weeks of playoff games, only two teams are standing for the big show, The Super Bowl. If you’re lucky to live in one of the two cities representing the AFC or NFC, it’s time to party!

  • “Happy Birthday” Dinner for Your Sweetheart
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    “Happy Birthday” Dinner for Your Sweetheart

    A love note placed strategically in one’s daily routine can brighten anyone’s mood. Those unpleasant daily chores completed without complaint...priceless. A meal prepared by a king; for a queen: served by a knight, what could be more charming than that?

  • Table for Four!
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    Table for Four!

    With the cold winter nights ahead of us, now is the time to connect to our people with a small dinner party. I’m not talking about a 2-keg blowout, just 4, 6 maybe 8 people for a warm joyful evening of healthy food and fun.

  • Good Luck in Love New Year’s Dish!
    Chef Steve Bland's Recipes for Love

    Good Luck in Love New Year’s Dish!

    My first “dinner for two” will include black-eyed peas served over brown rice with a spicy brown sugar cut pork chops served over sauerkraut. This recipe can be made vegetarian and vegan by replacing the pork chop with tofu and using raw sugar.

  • The Slow Food Movement
    Chef Steve Bland's Recipes for Love

    The Slow Food Movement

    Not only are you going to create some delectable dishes for your lover to indulge in, but you are going to show your sensitive side (and win major points) by embracing the slow flood movement, which seeks to nurture the world around us