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Category Archives: Vacation cuisine
Grilled steak, tots, and salad. 10/25/25
We have had a lot of great dinners during our trip. We are celebrating our last night with a delicious ribeye steak that John cooked on the grill. I took care of the tater tots and salad. We are already … Continue reading
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Shrimp in a Pernod cream sauce with rice. 10/23/25
My contribution to fancy dishes for dinner was shrimp in a Pernod cream sauce with rice. I made extra sauce, as you can see in the swimming pool of sauce above, because it is so delicious. Although there was a … Continue reading
Posted in pescatarian, rice, Shellfish, Special occasion, Vacation cuisine, Vegetables
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Sightseeing in Zion NP, Mexican lunch, and a dinner idea that did not work. 10/22/25
We are in Southern Utah enjoying our vacation with our son. In between all the golfing we spent a day sightseeing in some of the less visited part of Zion National Park. After exiting the east side of the park … Continue reading
Penne with sausage. 10/20/25
Jonathan cooked on Monday. We had originally planned on scallops but there were none to be found at Harmon’s. We were promised that they would be available tomorrow. I helped out by chopping the onion, garlic, and mushrooms. Jonathan manned … Continue reading
Posted in Easy, Italian, Pasta, Pork, Vacation cuisine, Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
Tagged pasta, Sausage
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Hamburgers and salad. 10/19/25
For our first cooking night in Utah John made probably the most delicious burgers ever. Rosy pink on the inside and nicely charred on the inside. We had tater tots and a small green salad along side.
Vacation sushi. 10/18/25
Every Fall we take a week’s vacation with our son, Jonathan, to St. George, Utah where we used to have a vacation home. We sold it a few years ago and although we miss it a lot we don’t miss … Continue reading
Posted in Asian, Fish, Japanese, rice, Vacation cuisine, Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
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Baked Chilean sea bass with leche de tigre sauce, and coconut rice. 11/8/24
This is a dinner that Jonathan and I kind of cobbled together from various cooking sites. The coconut rice was a cup of rice, 3/4 cup coconut milk, 3/4 cup water, and some salt. We sprinkle some lime zest and … Continue reading
Posted in Fish, Methods, pescatarian, rice, South American, Vacation cuisine
Tagged Chilean sea bass, coconut
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Grilled boneless ribeye steak with leftovers. 11/7/24
John and I bought this steak on Wednesday and planned to have it with the leftovers from Jonathan’s fancy scallop dinner. We needed something quick and easy to do since the guys were gone most of the day Thursday playing … Continue reading
Posted in American, Beef, Easy, leftovers, Vacation cuisine, Vegetables
Tagged Beef, Steak
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Shrimp in a saffron white wine sauce. 11/6/24
I mostly prepared and cooked this dinner. It all came out pretty well except I overcooked the shrimp a bit. I am not used to cooking the proteins. But the sauce was yummy even though we forgot to bring along … Continue reading
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Penne with Jon’s sauce. 10/5/240
The hits keep coming this week with a pasta dinner with Jonathan’s sausage and mushroom tomato sauce. I chopped up onions, garlic, and mushrooms while he got the sauce going. He used some spicy Italian pork sausage links which he … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Pasta, Pork, Vacation cuisine, Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
Tagged pasta, pork sausage
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