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Category Archives: Weeknight dinners
Fettucine with red sauce. 4/24/24
Last week I made some spicy tomato sauce to serve with bucatini. We had some left over sauce so I decided to go the pasta route again on Wednesday. Since there was not enough sauce left for another dinner I … Continue reading
Posted in Easy, Italian, Pasta, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Weeknight dinners
Tagged pasta
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Bucatini with spicy tomato sauce. 4/20/24
Bucatini is a thick strand of pasta with a hole in it, sort of like long spaghetti tubes. This bucatini was thicker than I like but we were low on pasta and the strands went well with the sauce. I … Continue reading
Grilled hamburgers. 4/19/24
Now that I am home again from the hospital it is so great to eat something with seasoning! The hospital did have a hamburger as a lunch selection but the idea of a really low fat, overcooked hamburger with no … Continue reading
Pizza. 4/15/24
It has been a while since I posted anything and that is because the miserable people on the plane coming back from Amsterdam had a wide variety of respiratory ailments that they did not bother to try to keep from … Continue reading
Posted in Easy, Italian, Pork, take-out, Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
Tagged Pizza, pork sausage
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Meatloaf with rice and broccoli 4/6/24
Apparently having the flu has made me lose my appetite for anything other than comfort food from my youth. Usually I want vegetable or seafood based dinners but this week I am all about lamb chops and ground beef. Since … Continue reading
Posted in American, Beef, Easy, Methods, rice, South American, Southwest U.S., Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
Tagged broccoli, ground beef, rice
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Chili 4/5/24
We have not had a ground beef chili in years! I pulled a recipe out of my binder which said this one was good from March, 2014! Since I am still under the weather, my contribution to the dinner was … Continue reading
Posted in American, Beef, Easy, Legumes, stew, Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
Tagged ground beef, kidney beans, tomatoes
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Grilled lamb chops with mixed potato mash and broccoli. 4/3/24
I cannot claim much credit for this dinner since I have been sick and not doing much prep or eating. I did peel the potatoes. John did his usual masterful job of grilling the lamb chops and our daughter prepared … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Grilling, Lamb, Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
Tagged broccoli, Lamb, potatoes
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Vegan Chana dal. 4/2/24
When we first started making Chana dal (dried split chickpea stew) in our Instant Pot we followed the recipe from this website. https://pipingpotcurry.com/instant-pot-chana-dal/ As time went by we changed the recipe so it would be more in sync with our … Continue reading
Posted in Asian, Easy, Indian, Instant Pot, Legumes, rice, stew, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Weeknight dinners
Tagged Chana dal, dal, Dried chickpeas
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Roast chicken breast with rice and asparagus. 4/1/24
We bought a package of chicken breasts recently. They were on sale at a good price. The only problem is that they are gargantuan! Our half boneless breast weighed one pound (453 g)! Being so big they take quite a … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Methods, Poultry, rice, Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
Tagged asparagus, chicken, rice
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Cheese-y polenta and spicy black beans. 3/30/24
Since I returned home from vacation we have made scrambled eggs Thursday night and skipped dinner altogether on Friday. The 8 hours of jet lag makes it hard to contemplate making meals. On Saturday, though, we decided that eating a … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Grains, Legumes, Recipes, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Weeknight dinners
Tagged Bo ack beans, polenta
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