Category Archives: Poultry

🦃 Peppers stuffed with ground turkey and farro. 12/11/19

Inspired by a blog post by Cooking Without Limits for stuffed peppers, I decided to try making some myself. John was busy installing a new modem and router so I had to come up with a recipe on my own. … Continue reading

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🦃 or 🥬 Everyday lentil stew. 12/10/19

Our everyday lentil stew is an easy, quick dinner that can be stretched into a soup or served tighter as a hearty stew. You can make it vegan or add some turkey sausage, as we did today, or go whole … Continue reading

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🍗 Chicken Marsala, smashed potatoes, broccoli

Tonight we had an upscale version of our usual chicken, starch, vegetable dinner. The sauce that John made for the chicken had sauteed mushrooms, Marsala wine, chicken stock, and finely diced onions in it. He flamed off the alcohol and … Continue reading

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🦃 Belated Thanksgiving dinner. 12/2/19

We missed Thanksgiving because we were away on our trip. Our son had Thanksgiving at his house with his wife and family and her parents. Our daughter had a Friendsgiving. But John and I felt we should have our own … Continue reading

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🦃 Happy Early Thanksgiving! 11/8/19

Next week we are going to go to Southeast Asia. How exciting is that?! While we are there we are going to learn about history and see the sights plus take some culinary classes! We are really hoping to become … Continue reading

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🦃 Lentil soup with turkey kielbasa. 11/2/19

According to my menu for the week, we are supposed to be eating tuna sandwiches tonight. However we went to the Habit Grill for lunch and two tuna meals seems like one too many. Special hint about dieting and eating … Continue reading

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🍗 Costco rotisserie chicken=chicken fajitas

We are going on our second meal from the Costco rotisserie chicken.  They are only $4.99 and are really big! The chicken has also tided us over in the late afternoon when we have needed a little protein to make … Continue reading

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Off the rails! 10/29/19

I have been doing pretty well on my weight loss journey. I lost 11 lbs. in the first 5 weeks. But then, dunh, dunh, dunhhhh, my sister came to visit. I tend to be quite the pushover when it comes … Continue reading

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Chicken chili. 10/18/19

This week instead of making up a menu and assigning a different meal to each day, I merely made a menu with seven different meals. This way I had an idea of what I needed to shop for but the … Continue reading

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Chicken shawarma? 10/11/19

I got this recipe for oven roasted chicken shawarma from the NYTimes Cooking site. If you have a subscription you can look it up. The chicken is marinated for an hour or so in olive oil, garlic, salt, pepper, cumin, paprika, … Continue reading

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