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Breakfast For Dinner. 2/13/21
My BFD this week was packed with protein and vibrant colors. In addition to my usual scrambled egg, I prepared a cannellini bean salad and some wilted spinach and kale with a crumbled vegetarian patty. Although my whole dinner fit … Continue reading
Posted in American, Breakfast For Dinner (BFD), Easy, Eggs, Healthy tips, Legumes, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Tagged Eggs
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Lunar New Year treats! 2/12/21
In honor of the lunar new year I made some Vietnamese summer rolls and John cooked some pork potstickers. We served them both with nuoc cham, a dipping sauce. I am a little rusty with my summer roll technique so … Continue reading
Posted in Chinese, Holidays, Pork, Recipes, Vegetables, Vietnamese
Tagged Potstickers, summer rolls
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Pasta with mushroom Bolognese. 2/11/21
I like to make my own pasta sauces rather than use one from a jar because then I know exactly what and how much of each ingredient there is. For instance, most jarred sauces have sugar of some sort in … Continue reading
Posted in American, Healthy tips, Italian, Kitchen tips, Pasta, Recipes, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Tagged Linguine, Spaghetti
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Grilled flank steak with roasted vegetables. 2/10/21
On Wednesday John fired up the grill to cook an out-of-the-ordinary beef flank steak. First he marinated it and then grilled it to a rosy pink. It was very tasty. In the time it took to heat up the grill … Continue reading
Posted in American, Beef, Easy, Grilling, Kitchen tips, omnivore, Sheet pan, Vegetables
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Sous vide chicken, IP rutabagas, veg. 2/9/21
We used a couple of our specialty cookers for our comfort classic on Tuesday. For me, this dinner has a holiday vibe since the only time we ever had rutabagas was at Thanksgiving or Christmas. Making rutabagas which are very … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Instant Pot, Kitchen tips, Poultry, sous vide, Vegetables
Tagged chicken breast
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Prize winner! Algerian tagine. 2/8/21
This past week’s winner of most views by a country was Algeria with 355 views. Dininglite.blog seems to be very popular in North Africa. Both Egypt, last week’s winner, and Algeria made strong showings. I decided to make a tagine … Continue reading
Posted in Easy, Kitchen tips, Legumes, North African, Pasta, stew, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Tagged chickpeas, couscous
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BFD Eggs, veg patty, veg, salad. 2/7/21
First let me report that John had an omelet AGAIN! I made some scrambled eggs and a veggie patty which I topped with sautéed onions and mushrooms and served atop a split half of a pita. My green salad featured … Continue reading
LFD-Koshari/chickpea stew with turkey sausage. 2/6/21
For our Leftovers For Dinner (LFD) meal we used the tiny bit of koshari we had left over from Monday. Obviously we were going to have to figure out some way to stretch this into a whole dinner. I started … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Egyptian, Kitchen tips, leftovers, Legumes, stew, Vegetables
Tagged chickpeas, turkey sausage
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Chicken parmesan with linguine and broccoli. 2/5/21
Just a reminder, the pictured food in my blog is my actual dinner plate and I eat all of it every day. In addition to my dinner I eat breakfast and lunch plus enjoy half a bag of popcorn during … Continue reading
Posted in American, Healthy tips, Italian, Kitchen tips, Poultry, Vegetables
Tagged chicken
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Orecchiette with mushrooms and broccolini. 2/4/21
If you are like me and could sit down to at least 8 ounces of pasta and wish you could have more then you need to find a way to make a little pasta go a long way. I stretch … Continue reading
Posted in Easy, Healthy tips, Italian, Kitchen tips, Pasta, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Tagged broccolini, mushrooms, Orecchiette
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