Category Archives: Pork

Penne with tomato sauce and sausage. 7/28/24

We got home from our vacation Sunday afternoon. For dinner we needed something simple for which we had all the ingredients on hand. I made a pasta sauce with a large can of crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, minced garlic and … Continue reading

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Cellentani Arrabiata with Sausage. 7/9/24

Two weeks ago I made an arrabiata pasta sauce which I served over spaghetti. I had made enough sauce that I could freeze a container for another dinner. On Fourth of July John cooked up five hot Italian sausages and … Continue reading

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Chili? 6/19/24

Why can we not make chili that tastes like chili!? The problem this time was that we used the trimmings from our Father’s Day ribs and the BBQ sauce remnants on our Qbits (John’s name for the leftovers) made the … Continue reading

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Father’s Day faux cookout. 6/16/24

I started out thinking that for Father’s Day we would grill some meat and corn plus serve a salad for John, our daughter, our son, who is also a dad, and his kids. But then I started thinking about all … Continue reading

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Pizza. 4/15/24

It has been a while since I posted anything and that is because the miserable people on the plane coming back from Amsterdam had a wide variety of respiratory ailments that they did not bother to try to keep from … Continue reading

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Sous vide pork tenderloin with new potatoes and broccoli. 10/25/23

This is our last try with pork tenderloin. According to Serious Eats if you cook the tenderloin in a sous vide bath set at 130F, the pork should come out flavorful, juicy, and tender. You do not have to worry … Continue reading

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Vegetable rice noodle soup and kung pao pork. 10/4/23

I made a couple of dishes yesterday. One was a vegetable soup with rice noodles. I love a big bowl of vegetables and noodles. Since I have acquired this gluten sensitivity I have been missing noodles. Last week I made … Continue reading

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Spicy Thai pork tenderloin salad. 8/19/23

Because our grilled citrus marinated pork tenderloin had turned out so well last week, we figured if we used the same technique on our Spicy Thai Pork Tenderloin Salad it would turn out equally well. But it did not. The … Continue reading

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Grilled citrus-marinated pork tenderloin with tortillas and spicy beans. 8/8/23

We saw this recipe, https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1024375-poc-chuc-citrus-marinated-grilled-pork?smid=ck-recipe-iOS-share, on the NYTimes cooking site and decided to try it with pork tenderloin. Pork tenderloin is notorious for cooking up tasteless and dry. To counteract that John took the pork and cut it into 1 … Continue reading

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Tossed salad with egg. 5/14/23

Although you cannot see them in the picture my dinner salad is full of tasty tidbits. Hiding under the lettuce and scrambled egg are tomatoes, mushrooms, green onions, ham strips, croutons, Gorgonzola crumbles, and a drizzle of olive oil and … Continue reading

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