Food Family Style Laugh Main Courses Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Wild Mushrooms – Recipe! March 3, 2021 / November 23, 2025 by Gena Bell | Leave a Comment Making an entire meal in one pan has become an efficient tip for home cooks. I remember many days cooking in the kitchen, and having four or five pots going all at once, just to make one meal and thinking, this feels like a lot. Nowadays we have all gotten a little smarter in the […] Read more » cooking with Gena Bell genabellrecipes Pork Recipes Roasted Pork Tenderloin Recipe Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Wild Mushrooms - Recipe! Wild Mushrooms Recipe
Food Main Courses Caramelized Chicken & Green Garlic Pasta – Recipe! February 20, 2021 / November 23, 2025 by Gena Bell | Leave a Comment Never underestimate the brown bits on the bottom of a pan. Those bits actually have a name and they’re called fond. Fond is the thing in many dishes that brings flavor, and creates a most delicious pan sauce that can be utilized in so many ways. To create a good fond, all you need is […] Read more » Caramelized Chicken & Green Garlic Pasta - Recipe! Chicken & Green Garlic Pasta Recipe Chicken Recipe cooking with Gena Bell genabellrecipes Green Garlic Recipe Pasta Recipe
Food Main Courses Shrimp Etouffee – Recipe! February 16, 2021 / November 23, 2025 by Gena Bell | Leave a Comment Happy Fat Tuesday! Well, if you haven’t heard, Mardi Gras is pretty much off this year due to the pandemic, and reasonably so. However, that hasn’t stopped the locals from decorating their houses in Mardi Gras float fashion with statues, banners and beads in the traditionally colors of purple, green and gold symbolizing justice, faith […] Read more » cooking with Gena Bell genabellrecipes Mardi Gras Recipe Shrimp Shrimp Etouffee - Recipe! Shrimp Recipe Southern Recipe
Family Style Food Laugh Main Courses Eggplant Parmesan Flatbread – Recipe! February 15, 2021 / November 23, 2025 by Gena Bell | Leave a Comment Over this past weekend, my husband and I were up in the Santa Ynez Valley working on our vacation house that we just recently purchased. We stopped our projects long enough to have a nice lunch outdoors at Nella Kitchen & Bar. Nella has just recently opened in the Fess Parker Inn in Los Olivos. […] Read more » Baking with Gena Bell Easy Flatbread Recipe Easy Recipes Eggplant Parmesan Flatbread - Recipe! Eggplant Recipes Flatbread Recipes genabellrecipes How to Make a Flatbread Italian Recipes Pizza Recipes Vegetarian Recipes
Food Family Style Laugh Main Courses Creamy Vegan Spaghetti with Broccoli & Cherry Tomatoes – Recipe! February 3, 2021 / November 23, 2025 by Gena Bell | Leave a Comment I know the northeast is deep up to their elbows in snow, but here in Los Angeles it’s gorgeous and mid-60’s. The skies are blue because of the recent rains and other than still being in a pandemic, we don’t have much to complain about here at home. Trying to eat mostly healthy is part […] Read more » cooking with Gena Bell Creamy Spaghetti Recipe Creamy Vegan Spaghetti with Broccoli & Cherry Tomatoes - Recipe! Easy Spaghetti Recipe Family Style Recipes genabellrecipes Spaghetti Vegan Spaghetti Recipe
Food Laugh Leftovers Main Courses Shredded Beef & Mashed Potato Taquitos with Chunky Guacamole – Recipe! February 2, 2021 / November 23, 2025 by Gena Bell | Leave a Comment I’m all about using up leftovers and I mentioned in Saturday’s post about repurposing some of the Slow-Cooker Vietnamese Style Pot Roast for another recipe. Shredding up roast beef is an easy task and adding it to a tortilla, along with some mashed potatoes that you may have paired with the beef, or had for […] Read more » Beef & Potato Taquitos Recipe cooking with Gena Bell genabellrecipes How to Use Up Leftovers Leftovers Leftovers Transformation Mexican Food Recipes Shredded Beef & Mashed Potato Taquitos with Chunky Guacamole - Recipe! Shredded Beef Recipes
Food Main Courses Slow-Cooker Vietnamese Style Pot Roast – Recipe! January 30, 2021 / November 23, 2025 by Gena Bell | Leave a Comment I’m always looking for ways to infuse flavor into basic recipes. Pot roast is one of those traditional things that most of us have made several times over the years, but could use a transformational spin from time to time. I do like a classic version of pot roast, but sometimes it’s just nice to […] Read more » cooking with Gena Bell genabellrecipes How to Cook a Pot Roast Slow Cooker Recipes Slow Cooker Vietnamese Pot Roast - Recipe! Slow-Cooker Vietnamese Style Pot Roast - Recipe! Vietnamese Flavors Vietnamese Style Roast
Food Main Courses Instant Pot African Pork & Peanut Stew – Recipe! January 27, 2021 / November 23, 2025 by Gena Bell | 2 Comments on Instant Pot African Pork & Peanut Stew – Recipe! Stew sounds so good during this time of the year. Maybe it’s because we are having extremely cold weather here in Los Angeles. Did you hear, it snowed in Malibu this past week? What is up with that! So, no it isn’t always hot in Southern California and we do crave silky hunks of meat […] Read more » African Pork & Peanut Stew Recipe cooking with Gena Bell genabellrecipes Instant Pot African Pork & Peanut Stew - Recipe! Pork Stew Recipe
Food Breakfast Main Courses Herby Caramelized Onion & Goat Cheese Frittata – Recipe! January 18, 2021 / November 23, 2025 by Gena Bell | Leave a Comment I hope everyone had a good weekend. It was super hot here in Los Angeles with temperatures rising above 80 degrees at the coast. I pretty much stayed inside except for a run in the morning, a saunter in my yard to water, and then I cooked and baked a bit, and that was the […] Read more » Breakfast for Dinner Recipes Breakfast Recipes Caramelized Onion Frittata cooking with Gena Bell Egg recipes Frittata Recipe genabellrecipes Herby Caramelized & Goat Cheese Frittata - Recipe!
Food Laugh Leftovers Main Courses Mini Tamale Pies – Recipe! January 15, 2021 / November 23, 2025 by Gena Bell | Leave a Comment The start of this year has been a real doozy, huh? I’m already worn out from the news about all the political injustices going around our country, and counting the days until the inauguration. I’m trying to keep my meals as simple as possible, just so something feels easy right now. Leftovers are something we […] Read more » cooking with Gena Bell genabellrecipes Leftovers Recipes Mini Tamale Pies - Recipe! Tamale Pie Recipe Tamales Pies