I went to a nice dinner party on Saturday at some friends’ house and offered to bring a side dish. I settled on Stuffed Onions from How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food and they were really good! Huge, but good. Half was plenty for me with all the other good…
Main Dishes
Chicken Tortilla Soup
I started with this recipe from Allrecipes.com and modified it a bit according to various comments and what I had on hand. It was really good and very filling. I have lots left over for lunches and froze some for later.
Chicken Cacciatore Sandwiches
These were inspired by Rachel Ray’s recipe in Classic 30-Minute Meals: The All-Occasion Cookbook but I modified based on the fact that I was only serving 2 people and used up what I had on hand rather than her specifics. As I often do, I followed the spirit of the recipe rather than the letter.
Barba Yianni’s Grilled Lamb
I didn’t grow up eating lamb, but good friends of mine have often cooked lamb when I’ve gone to their house and I’ve enjoyed it. And my girls’ friends who live next door like lamb, although they don’t like other meat much, so I said I’d try my hand at some. I pulled out my…
Lazy Pot Roast
I started with the Lisa’s Lazy Pot Roast recipe from The Complete Meat Cookbook but I modified it by adding more vegetables after the pot roast had cooked. First, the basic pot roast, which is FANTASTIC! I used a 7-blade roast, which was on sale at my local grocery. I did the rub, let it…