Category: Main Dishes

  • Cream of Mushroom Soup

    Cream of Mushroom Soup

    A while back I bought one of those large containers of mushrooms at Costco. Even living alone, I am tempted! But I was determined to use them up without wasting any and not eat the same thing over and over. I’ve been wanting to make Cream of Mushroom Soup for some time so this was…

  • Double Soup Night

    Double Soup Night

    My eldest broke both bones in her ankle last week and had her surgery today. Yesterday she asked if I’d make her and her boyfriend dinner, which I’d been offering to do. She thought soup sounded good and I thought of this ribollita. She nixed that. She wanted Chicken and Drop Dumplings. This is one…

  • Chicken Tetrazzini for Two

    Chicken Tetrazzini for Two

    In the quest for using up food leftover from the holidays, I’m targeting a large container of mushrooms I bought. I made a small portion of chicken tetrazzini for dinner, trying not to create more than one portion of leftovers! I had some cooked chicken leftover from making this fantastic “cure-all chicken soup” with spicy…

  • Beef Stroganoff

    Beef Stroganoff

    I had a hard time deciding what to make for Christmas dinner this year. We don’t have any firm food traditions for Christmas dinner. Christmas breakfast is always cinnamon rolls, sausage, scrambled eggs and orange juice (with champagne now that the girls are grown!). We varied that a little this year because my youngest wanted…

  • Chickpeas and Sausage

    Chickpeas and Sausage

    I’m cleaning up the site again (does it ever end?) and converting recipes, finding recipes that didn’t make it to WordPress when I moved things, adding photos, reworking things.  So please let me know if you see anything wonky.  This recipe for Chickpeas and Sausage came from Fast Food My Way by Jacques Pepin. I’d…