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Category Archives: Easy
Scrambled egg salad. 4/23/23
Sunday is almost always make-your-own-egg dinner. John always makes a ham, scallion, mushroom, and cheese omelette. I make something different each week. This week I made a salad of lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, mushrooms, scallions, and croutons then topped it with … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Eggs, Salad, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Weeknight dinners
Tagged Eggs, Salad
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Pesto noodles and zoodles over kale. 4/22/23
In October of last year we got lots of basil from the community garden. I made quite a bit of pesto and froze it in large cubes. I defrosted two of them for our pesto pasta. To add volume to … Continue reading
Posted in Easy, Italian, Pasta, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Weeknight dinners
Tagged pasta
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Grilled hamburger with salad and chips 4/20/23
I am a person who likes a good buy. When I saw that I could get a pound of local ground Kobe beef for $4.99 and a bag of Kettle chips for $2.50 plus it was senior day with an … Continue reading
Posted in American, Beef, Easy, Grilling, Salad, Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
Tagged Beef
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Potato, bean, and kale stew with gochujang. (Vegan) 4/18/23
Gochujang is a spicy Korean paste. Our daughter uses it frequently but this my first recipe to use it in. The amount suggested in the recipe is mildly spicy and will not blow your head off. You serve the stew … Continue reading
Posted in Asian, Easy, Legumes, Recipes, rice, stew, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Weeknight dinners
Tagged beans, potatoes
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Seared tuna, rice mix, broccoli with oyster sauce. 4/16/23
Frozen ahi tuna was on sale for two pieces weighing a total of 11 ounces for $4.99. Such a good price that we had to give it a try. It was very good! I am glad I bought a second … Continue reading
Posted in Asian, Easy, Fish, Healthy tips, Methods, pescatarian, Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
Tagged tuna
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Roasted tilapia, broccoli, and polenta 4/15/23
Preparing the polenta at a 6:1 ratio gives you almost a sauce. It is surprisingly delicious with broccoli. That’s why I steamed A LOT! On one side of the fish are the florets and on the other, the chopped up … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Fish, Grains, Methods, pescatarian, Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
Tagged broccoli, polenta, tilapia
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Fettuccine with tomato sauce and kale. 4/12/23
When I eat pasta I like to have a big portion. But too much pasta blows my calorie allotment. In tonight’s dinner I solved that in two ways. First I shredded some cabbage to about the same width as the … Continue reading
Posted in Easy, Healthy tips, Italian, Kitchen tips, Mediterranean, Methods, Pasta, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Weeknight dinners
Tagged cabbage, kale, pasta
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Salad and soup. 4/11/23
Finishing up our weekend leftovers, I added some additional lettuce and cabbage to a bagged salad and John made new matzoh balls for the chicken vegetable soup I made yesterday. The soup was less successful. It came out kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Easy, leftovers, Salad, soup, Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
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Pasta and Brussels sprouts. 4/6/23
I have never put Brussels sprouts in pasta before. I figured that if I regularly make pasta with broccoli and Brussels sprouts are in the same family, why not?! I sliced each sprout in three pieces through the root end. … Continue reading
Posted in Easy, Italian, Methods, Pasta, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Weeknight dinners
Tagged brussels sprouts, pasta
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Chicken enchiladas with spicy black beans 4/3/23
Today we went to Costco with our main goal of getting a boneless leg of lamb for our Saturday family feast. But who can resist that $4.99 rotisserie chicken?! So we bought one and when we got home I took … Continue reading
Posted in Easy, Legumes, Methods, Mexican, Poultry, Southwest U.S., Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
Tagged beans, chicken, enchiladas
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