Category: Main Dishes

  • Sesame Ginger Salmon

    Sesame Ginger Salmon

    If you cook dinner every night, you know the hardest part is sometimes just coming up with the menu!  I challenged my daughter to plan dinner. I was happy to do the cooking but I was brain-dead.  I’d bought some frozen wild salmon at the grocery store and wanted to cook that. She found this…

  • Salmon with Yogurt Sauce

    Salmon with Yogurt Sauce

    I had bought some frozen salmon filets for dinner this week but had no idea what I was going to do with them.  Then the new Cooking Light arrived and this Spice Roasted Salmon caught my eye. I didn’t have any garam masala but I used a brown sugar and paprika salmon rub I’d bought…

  • Slow Cooker Pulled Pork

    Slow Cooker Pulled Pork

    I really like the flavor of this barbecue sauce but you can also use a bottle of store-bought sauce if you’d like.  I’ve found that the sauce tends to get watered down after cooking in the slow cooker so I like to reserve some and mix in at the end. My girls like these plain…

  • Crockpot Rump Roast

    Crockpot Rump Roast

    Here’s an easy recipe for a crockpot rump roast. Serve it with mashed potatoes and a green vegetable the first night, then plan ahead for how to stretch that beef roast into different meals.

  • Crock Pot Chicken Broth

    Crock Pot Chicken Broth

    Do you make your own chicken broth?  You should!  It’s so easy and almost free if you would otherwise throw out the chicken bones.  You can also save the ends of carrots, celery and onions in the freezer until it’s time to make broth. If you want clear broth it’s best to make it on…