Category: Main Dishes
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Gazpacho
It’s summer and the tomatoes are plentiful and good. I have tomatoes on toast for breakfast, sometimes with a scrambled egg but often just plain. I get to walk out and pick the ripest tomatoes for my breakfast, which is about as good as it gets. When the tomatoes become really plentiful, I make gazpacho.…
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Roast Chicken in 40 Minutes
If you haven’t ever butterflied a chicken, you need to learn! It will elevate roast chicken from a weekend meal (with lots of time to cook) to a weeknight meal. By cutting out the backbone and flattening the chicken, it cooks much faster. Jacques Pepin adds cutting into the joints of the legs and the…
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Apricot and Mustard Baked Chicken Thighs
There are lots of variations on this idea of baking chicken (or pork) with an apricot jam and mustard mix. Sometimes there is some maple syrup added as in this version. Recently I ran across recipes in both Dinner: A Love Story: It all begins at the family table and Nigella Kitchen: Recipes from the…
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BLT Chicken Salad with Easy Ranch Dressing
Here’s another easy Ranch dressing to go this BLT Chicken Salad. In fact, I didn’t have buttermilk so I created a substitute with 1 teaspoon of vinegar in 1/3 cup milk. Just stir it in and let it sit for 5 minutes or so and you’ll have some slightly curdled buttermilk-like base for dressings. You…
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Chicken Burrito Bowls
I made the chicken burrito bowls again and played around with a different way to dress up the canned black beans for a day when I didn’t have time to caramelize the onions. You just add some dried spices and a minced clove of garlic and voila! Dressed up black beans. Of course, if you were…