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Valentine’s Day dinner. 2/14/21
Do you have to spend hours in the kitchen to make a delicious, special-occasion dinner? Not at all. I pre-heated the oven to 400F, sliced the potatoes in half, shook the potato halves with a teaspoon of olive oil and … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Fish, Healthy tips, Holidays, Kitchen tips, pescatarian, Sheet pan, Vegetables
Tagged Chilean sea bass
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Breakfast For Dinner. 2/13/21
My BFD this week was packed with protein and vibrant colors. In addition to my usual scrambled egg, I prepared a cannellini bean salad and some wilted spinach and kale with a crumbled vegetarian patty. Although my whole dinner fit … Continue reading
Posted in American, Breakfast For Dinner (BFD), Easy, Eggs, Healthy tips, Legumes, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Tagged Eggs
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Lunar New Year treats! 2/12/21
In honor of the lunar new year I made some Vietnamese summer rolls and John cooked some pork potstickers. We served them both with nuoc cham, a dipping sauce. I am a little rusty with my summer roll technique so … Continue reading
Posted in Chinese, Holidays, Pork, Recipes, Vegetables, Vietnamese
Tagged Potstickers, summer rolls
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Pasta with mushroom Bolognese. 2/11/21
I like to make my own pasta sauces rather than use one from a jar because then I know exactly what and how much of each ingredient there is. For instance, most jarred sauces have sugar of some sort in … Continue reading
Posted in American, Healthy tips, Italian, Kitchen tips, Pasta, Recipes, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Tagged Linguine, Spaghetti
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Grilled flank steak with roasted vegetables. 2/10/21
On Wednesday John fired up the grill to cook an out-of-the-ordinary beef flank steak. First he marinated it and then grilled it to a rosy pink. It was very tasty. In the time it took to heat up the grill … Continue reading
Posted in American, Beef, Easy, Grilling, Kitchen tips, omnivore, Sheet pan, Vegetables
Tagged flank steak
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Sous vide chicken, IP rutabagas, veg. 2/9/21
We used a couple of our specialty cookers for our comfort classic on Tuesday. For me, this dinner has a holiday vibe since the only time we ever had rutabagas was at Thanksgiving or Christmas. Making rutabagas which are very … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Instant Pot, Kitchen tips, Poultry, sous vide, Vegetables
Tagged chicken breast
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Prize winner! Algerian tagine. 2/8/21
This past week’s winner of most views by a country was Algeria with 355 views. Dininglite.blog seems to be very popular in North Africa. Both Egypt, last week’s winner, and Algeria made strong showings. I decided to make a tagine … Continue reading
Posted in Easy, Kitchen tips, Legumes, North African, Pasta, stew, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Tagged chickpeas, couscous
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BFD Eggs, veg patty, veg, salad. 2/7/21
First let me report that John had an omelet AGAIN! I made some scrambled eggs and a veggie patty which I topped with sautéed onions and mushrooms and served atop a split half of a pita. My green salad featured … Continue reading
