Category: Main Dishes
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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…
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Fastest Way to Shred Beef
This is the fastest way yet I’ve found to shred beef for enchiladas, tacos and so forth. I had some leftover pot roast and decided to make beef enchiladas. Usually I would use two forks to pull the beef apart into shreds or I would get lazy and just chop it up. But I do…
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Shrimp in Coconut Sauce
I got this recipe for Shrimp in Coconut Sauce from Cooking Light many years ago. I like to serve red beans and coconut rice with these shrimp but plain rice or noodles would be good too. I usually serve some simple green vegetable like steamed snow peas with this. If your rice cooker has a steamer…
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Andrea’s Chicken Marinade
My sister Andrea recently shared her favorite chicken marinade and it is tied with my favorite Worcestershire and Soy Sauce Marinade now. This one has mustard in it, but you don’t really taste the mustard per se. It just tastes incredibly good and the chicken always seems very moist. I have always grilled the chicken…
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Beef, Broccoli & Peppers Stir Fry
I like a good stir fry for using up odds and ends of vegetables. In this case, I didn’t really have enough broccoli to make just a broccoli and beef stir fry, which was what I initially thought of cooking, but I added in some sliced red and yellow peppers and there was plenty. I…