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Category Archives: Vegetables
Lamb chops, mashed potatoes, asparagus. 3/27/21
Saturday night we celebrated the first night of Passover with a Seder and a festive meal. Grilled lamb chops, mashed potatoes, asparagus with sauce gribiche Since this was a festive occasion we were not counting calories and enjoyed our mashed … Continue reading
Posted in American, Grilling, Holidays, Lamb, Vegetables
Tagged Lamb, sauce gribiche
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Country winner, Thailand! Tom Yum Soup. 3/26/21
This favorite in Thailand is a great low calorie, healthy soup. Here is a link to the recipe I used. https://www.recipetineats.com/tom-yum-soup-thai/. There are two recipes included one for the brothy soup that I made and another for a creamy soup. … Continue reading
Posted in Easy, Kitchen tips, Recipes, Shellfish, soup, Thai, Vegetables
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Chicken Marsala, mashed potatoes, broccoli. 3/25/21
Our chicken dinner this week was very similar to last week’s. Instead of a piccata sauce we made a Marsala sauce, Marsala wine instead of white wine, no capers but both have lemon, mushrooms, and shallots. I got my recipe … Continue reading
Take-out! Zeni Ethiopian food. 3/24/21
As a continuing part of our daughter’s birthday celebration we got take-out from another one of her and our favorite restaurants, Zeni’s in San Jose, CA. They serves authentic Ethiopian food and it is so delicious. When you dine in … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Lamb, North African, Poultry, take-out, Vegetables
Tagged Ethiopian cuisine
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Vegan night-salad and pasta with broccoli and mushrooms. 3/22/21
I admit to being lazy when it comes to salad. If I can get an assortment of salad greens already washed I am all for it. For Monday’s salad I used a bagged chopped salad that included some bitter greens. … Continue reading
Posted in Easy, Italian, Kitchen tips, Pasta, Recipes, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Tagged pasta
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BFD – Veggie egg scramble over couscous. 3/21/21
Tonight’s Breakfast For Dinner was simply chop up all the vegetables that seemed good with eggs, stir fry them, add 2 eggs, and serve it over some couscous because we did not have any leftover rice and I was in … Continue reading
Posted in American, Breakfast For Dinner (BFD), Easy, Eggs, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Tagged Eggs
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LFD – Chickpea stew over rainbow kale. 3/20/21
LFD (Leftovers For Dinner) is on the menu tonight and you probably recognize the dish from Meatless Monday. Since the chickpea stew has been sitting in the refrigerator all week, it has absorbed most of the liquid in the dish. … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Kitchen tips, leftovers, Leftovers For Dinner, Legumes, Pasta, stew, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Tagged chickpeas
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Weekly winner – Brazil! Shrimp Moqueca 3/19/21
First, thank you to all the Brazilians who happened upon my site while looking for something else! We had fun reading Brazilian recipes and deciding on this moqueca to make. Moqueca is a Brazilian seafood stew. …Moqueca can be made … Continue reading
Posted in Easy, Kitchen tips, pescatarian, Recipes, Shellfish, South American, stew, Vegetables
Tagged shrimp
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Chicken piccata, mashed potatoes, asparagus. 3/18/21
Chicken piccata, mashed potatoes, asparagus Since I was tired of our usual Classic Chicken, I pushed for a different way to make chicken this week. We came up with chicken piccata which is basically chicken breast pounded out, seasoned with … Continue reading
St. Patrick’s Day Fusion. 3/17/21
Since we have been celebrating as many food-themed holidays as we can due to the tedium of the pandemic, why not St. Patrick’s Day too?! My sisters were telling me how they were making Irish soda bread and corned beef … Continue reading
Posted in Beef, Holidays, Kitchen tips, omnivore, Recipes, rice, Vegetables
Tagged cabbage, soda bread
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