Category Archives: Salad

Breakfast for Dinner! 9/3/23

It is hard to keep coming up with different things to do with eggs every Sunday. Sometimes I just have to go back to the basics. Tonight’s BFD is simply soft scrambled eggs. The secret to not getting a dried … Continue reading

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Grilled steak and potato with tomato/cucumber salad. 9/2/23

All-American dinner tonight! John grilled the rib eye cap steak perfectly and did a fine job on the potatoes that I had microwaved earlier. A real star of the dinner was the tomato, cucumber, and red onion salad I made … Continue reading

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Hummus and tabbouleh. 8/30/23

I am hoping that Wednesday was our last really hot day of the season. I am well-known in my household for saying repeatedly, Do you think it’s over? Is this the last day? all through September. Our son got married … Continue reading

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Tuna tataki with salad. 8/29/23

This is such an easy but delicious recipe to make. I found it on the Food Network site. John coated the tuna according to the recipe and seared it quickly. I took a shortcut on the salad using prepackaged greens. … Continue reading

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Chicken enchiladas with southwest salad 8/24/23

John and I made this casserole of enchiladas and baked them before 9 AM. What a pleasure to have this completely made before the hot weather invaded the kitchen! All I had to do at dinner time was to make … Continue reading

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Grilled hamburgers, salad, and corn. 8/24/23

Thursday’s dinner was a celebration of summer—outdoors grilling, bright tomatoes, and corn on the cob. Since I have sadly been having trouble digesting gluten I had my hamburgers with its condiments of red onion, ketchup, and mayonnaise bunless. Sitting in … 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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Fennel, potato, garlic soup with salad 8/18/23

Friday night was vegan night as the soup was made with no dairy and gets its creamy texture from blending the vegetables. It was quite simple. Just cook chopped up onions, garlic, celery, fennel, and potatoes with some herbs and … Continue reading

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Grilled rib cap steak and potato, Caesar salad. 8/17/23

Very infrequently we buy a rib cap steak at Costco. The rib cap is what curves around the eye of meat in a rib eye steak. It is a really tasty piece of meat. We do not buy it often … Continue reading

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Tuna tataki with Asian rice salad 8/16/23

John and I bought a “previously frozen” tuna steak today. It was about 13 oz. and enough for us to split three ways. John used this recipe from Food Network as a basis for making the lightly seared tuna. https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tuna-tataki-recipe-1940352. … Continue reading

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