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🍗 White chicken chili. 12/17/19
Our take on white chicken chili is based on a recipe from Food Network that you can find here. It is super easy utilizing such time savers as rotisserie chicken and canned cannellini beans. Instead of two cans of the … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Legumes, Mexican, omnivore, Poultry, Recipes, Vegetables
Tagged Chili
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⚓️ Vietnamese (sweet and) sour soup with prawn. 12/14/19
Making this dish was quite an adventure when we prepared it in Ho Chi Minh City during a cooking class. It was also quite an adventure preparing it at home. There are a lot of ingredients and some are not … Continue reading
Posted in pescatarian, Recipes, Shellfish, Vegetables, Vietnamese
Tagged Vietnamese sour soup
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🦃 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
Posted in American, Grains, Kitchen tips, omnivore, Poultry, Recipes, Vegetables, WW points
Tagged bell peppers, farro, Turkey
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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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Vichyssoise – a summer potato soup. 8/22/19
There are two components to tonight’s dinner, a Mediterranean salad and a French soup. There is some question as to whether vichyssoise is a French or American creation. Potato and leek soup served hot has been around in France since … Continue reading
Light clam chowder. 8/18/19
Wow, did this come out well! In fact it is so good that our daughter ate it for breakfast this morning. Granted this is not exactly summer fare but it has been pleasant here for a few days so I … Continue reading
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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Great tabbouleh and more! 8/14/19
I get a lot of accolades from the family when I make this parsley-forward tabbouleh based on a recipe for a Lebanese Tabbouleh from NYTimes Cooking. For tonight’s version, here is the recipe: Lemony Parsley Tabbouleh 1/2 cup bulgur wheat … Continue reading
Posted in Grains, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Recipes, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Tagged hummus, Salad, tabbouleh
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Meatless Monday. 8/13/19
On this hot meatless Monday we are minimizing the heat in the kitchen with microwaved corn on the cob, a salad, and portobello mushrooms grilled outside. Let’s start with the corn. It is so easy when you do it in … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Grilling, Recipes, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Tagged beans, corn, mushrooms
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Lemony zucchini salad. 8/11/19
In case you have too much zucchini from your garden, here is a tasty salad to use some of it. Leave some time to marinate the zucchini before you eat the salad. At least 4 hours would be best. In … Continue reading
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