Category Archives: Sheet pan

Sheet pan root veg with turkey sausage. 3/3/23

What is easier than a sheet pan dinner?! I cut up carrots, celery, onion, butternut squash, and cabbage. I tossed all the vegetable components in olive oil and salt and then spread them out on a foil-lined sheet pan. They … Continue reading

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Salmon, rice, and green beans with a mustard sauce. 2/3/23

John tried a new technique for cooking the salmon that we saw on America’s Test Kitchen last week. He pre-heated a sheet pan in the oven set to 500F. When the oven reached temperature he took the pan out, sprayed … Continue reading

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Sheet pan eggplant, sprouts, and tomato over farro. 12/29/22

Getting all the vegetables done at the same time was the most difficult part of this dish. I started the eggplant first and put the sprouts and the tomato in the oven after 15 minutes. Then I cooked it for … Continue reading

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Tiny meat loaf with potatoes and broccoli. 12/23/22

For our Christmas Eve party we are making meatballs with three sauces. After I made 70 meatballs I had a little of the meat ball mix left over. What are meatballs anyway? Basically round meat loaf! So I made two … Continue reading

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Tofu with chickpeas and tomatoes. 11/29/22

Sumac and za’atar are the spices on this Middle Eastern flavored dish. We made this on a sheet pan and it looked promising. However, the flavor turned out bland and the texture was uniformly dull. I figured that cooking the … Continue reading

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Farro bowl with sheet pan eggplant and Brussels sprouts. 11/19/22

This dish started out as a quinoa bowl with tahini sauce that I saw on the NYTimes cooking site. John is not a fan of quinoa so I changed the grain to farro. I did not want all the calories … Continue reading

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Roasted tilapia, pesto, and sheet pan veg. 10/29/22

This is almost an instant replay of a dinner we had last week. We enjoyed last week’s rendition of this fish dinner plus we had one frozen cube of pesto left so our only change was to add mushrooms to … Continue reading

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Tilapia with pesto and roasted vegetables. 10/22/22

We took the humble tilapia and elevated it with a perfect cook, a homemade pesto, and delicious roasted carrots, zucchini, and red onion. Our dishes were garnished with a drizzle of olive oil and a chiffonade of fresh basil. I … Continue reading

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Roasted tilapia, sheet pan veg, and mustard sauce. 10/11/22

The trickiest thing about making this dinner was to get everything finished cooking at the same time. I pre-heated my oven to 425F convect. I knew the carrots and cabbage would take about 30 minutes and the green beans about … Continue reading

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Vegetable extravaganza! 10/2/22

On Sunday nights everyone in the family is on their own to make whatever appeals to them. I knew we had bits and pieces of vegetables and I decided to roast broccoli, cauliflower, rutabaga, mushrooms, cabbage, and carrots. I tossed … Continue reading

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