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Category Archives: American
Burger, slaw, chips. 10/11/18
John grills the hamburgers. I make the cole slaw. We open a bag of chips. Dinner. (At least the cole slaw is homemade!)
Posted in American, Beef, Easy, Vegetables
Tagged cabbage, carrots, coleslaw, ground beef, hamburgers, Onions
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Steak, potatoes, salad. 10/6/18
What could be more American than steak, potatoes, and a salad. The surprising thing, though, is that this dinner turned out much more delicious than any comparable dinner of recent memory. What is up with that?! John sous vide the … Continue reading
Classic chicken. 10/4/18
Today’s classic chicken is John’s sous vide chicken breast served au jus with my confetti couscous, and spinach. We are supposed to be having butternut squash but the cut up squash I bought has not liked sitting around for a … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Pasta, Poultry, Vegetables
Tagged chicken, couscous, sous vide, spinach
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Vegan Tuesday morphs to Wednesday. 10/3/18
We are in the process of selling our house here in Utah and a couple of real estate agents came over on Tuesday to look at our house and give us their pitch. Needless to say by the time we … Continue reading
Posted in American, Legumes, Pasta, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Tagged carrots, Celery, chickpeas, ditalini, garlic, greens, onion
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A/C broke!! Picnic supper 9/30/18
Right now we are in the desert of Southwest Utah. Even though it is the very end of September the temperatures are still in the mid-90’s. Our air conditioning decides to stop working today. So throw the chicken dinner idea … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Pork, take-out, Vegetables
Tagged broccoli, Potato salad, ribs
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Sous vide, grilled steak. 9/26/18
Tonight’s dinner is simple. Cook the steak in the immersion circulator set at 125 F. Microwave the potato halves. Put them both on a hot grill briefly. Add spinach to the plate. I really love how this method of cooking … Continue reading
Posted in American, Beef, Easy, Grilling, Vegetables
Tagged baked potato, sous vide, spinach, Vegetables
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Swimming up stream: Salmon. 9/21/18
For some reason we have less success cooking fish than anything other protein. Shellfish, we are usually cool with but fish, especially salmon, we have a hard time getting to look like the photos from cooking sites. Tonight’s salmon is … Continue reading
Posted in American, Fish, pescatarian, rice, Vegetables
Tagged broccoli, Pescatarian, salmon, yellow rice
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Fire on the grill! Epic fail. 9/18/18
We run into a little trouble when our cast iron flat top catches fire on the grill. Our experiment with searing scallops on a ripping hot surface does not turn out well. Lesson, never add fat too an overly hot … Continue reading
Posted in American, Grilling, Kitchen tips, pescatarian, Shellfish, Vegetables
Tagged new potatoes, scallops, spinach
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Monday Sous vide grilled BBQ Chicken. 9/17/18
Tonight’s dinner has two courses! How fancy of us! For out first course we have a the ingredients for a Caprese salad on a bed of spinach. Our daughter’s tomatoes are the stars with backup from basil that I grow … Continue reading
Posted in American, Grilling, Kitchen tips, Legumes, Vegetables
Tagged basil, beans, caprese salad, chicken, mozzarella, spinach, tomatoes
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Waste not, want not. 9/12/18
Tonight is supposed to be rotisserie chicken from the grocery store but we have leftover short ribs and I am not about to throw out tasty food. I think a lot of people give leftovers a bad name. Especially when … Continue reading
Posted in American, Beef, Easy, Kitchen tips, leftovers, Pasta, Vegetables
Tagged bean salad, leftovers, noodles, short ribs
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