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Category Archives: Kitchen tips
🥬 Back to eating healthy. 11/30/19
I am back from cruising around Southeast Asia. We had an incredible time seeing the beautiful people and places of this region. During our two weeks we took two cooking classes, one in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and the … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Kitchen tips, Legumes, Pasta, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
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🥚 Eggs. 11/3/19
When you are tired and cannot think of anything to fix for dinner, think of eggs! Seriously, eggs do not have to be only for breakfast. John made himself an omelet and I made some scrambled eggs. I like to … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Eggs, Healthy tips, Kitchen tips, Vegetarian, WW points
Tagged Eggs
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🥩 Linguine with meat sauce and salad. 9/19/19
In deference to my diet I made less pasta and filled half my bowl with salad. I made the spaghetti sauce in July and I do not know the exact amounts of the ingredients so I could not assign a … Continue reading
Posted in Beef, Easy, Italian, Kitchen tips, Pasta, Recipes, Vegetables
Tagged Llnguine, meat sauce
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🥬 Vegan vegetable soup in half an hour. 9/18/19
Tonight is supposed to be chickpea stew but I have vegetables calling to me, so, change in plans! Here is how to get homemade vegetable soup on the table fast. Cut up the onions first. Turn your pan on medium … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Kitchen tips, leftovers, Legumes, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, WW points
Tagged vegetable soup
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Less cooking. 8/16-17/19
I am running out of steam for doing actual cooking at the end of this week. Maybe it is the hot weather that has gotten to me. On Thursday we were supposed to have chicken on the grill but John … Continue reading
Posted in Easy, Italian, Kitchen tips, pescatarian, Recipes, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Tagged bruschetta, tomatoes, tuna
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Seared scallops. 8/9/19
Except maybe for the clean-up there is nothing faster, simpler, and more delicious than seared scallops. John and I have to time everything to be basically done before he puts the scallops on since they only take a couple of … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Kitchen tips, pescatarian, Recipes, Shellfish, Vegetables
Tagged new potatoes, scallops, snow peas
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Green tomato sauce. 8/7/19
Our daughter is growing a type of tomato called Aunt Ruby’s German Green. Many of these tomatoes are real bruisers and weigh in around a pound each. The flesh is a bright green. We have a lot of them so … Continue reading
Posted in Beef, Italian, Kitchen tips, Pasta, Recipes, Vegetables
Tagged spaghetti sauce, tomatoes
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Semi-fresh spaghetti sauce. 7/27/19
I used my last container of frozen spaghetti sauce for our dinner on Saturday night. Knowing that we would be facing a tomato glut by this point in the summer, I filled each container only half full so that my … Continue reading
Caprese salad and more. 7/23/19
On Tuesday we used our bountiful tomatoes for Caprese salad. The salad is simply slices of tomato and mozzarella, a sprinkling of basil, and olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Oh, and don’t forget the salt! My salad looks like the … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Grilling, Kitchen tips, Poultry, Vegetables
Tagged broccoli, chicken, tomatoes
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More favorite food. 7/19/19
Yesterday when I was talking about America’s favorite foods I mentioned “any kind of pasta.” So that is what we ate on Friday. We had the ends of two boxes of pasta, one whole grain spaghetti and one spaghetti rigate … Continue reading
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