Category: Main Dishes
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Mexican Influenced Marinade for Grilled Chicken
Try to marinate your chicken a few hours at least, up to 12 hours for maximum flavor. I use zip-lock freezer bags or a covered dish in the fridge. I used boneless skinless chicken breasts for these and cooked two extra so we would have them available for lunches and another dinner. Tonight I served…
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Chicken Curry with Tomatoes
Dinner tonight was chicken curry with chickpeas and tomatoes. Sort of a mashup of several different recipes, but relying on a curry paste from Patak as the base. I used to have a local source of these but now even my local Indian grocery stores don’t seem to carry them. And I don’t like the…
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Chinese Chicken Salad
With the warmer weather, we are coming up on the time when a salad for dinner sounds really good. The combination of warm meat and cool greens with a spicy sweet dressing really hits the spot for me. I’ve been making my way through older recipes and remaking some so I can take pictures and…
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Garlic and Brown Sugar Chicken Breasts
I love recipes that scale easily and these days I’m especially attracted to ones that let me make a good dinner for just one or two people. These chicken breasts were really good. While they were cooking I nuked a potato for a few minutes, just to get it started, then cubed it up and…
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Shepherd’s Pork Chops: Smothered in Onions and Provolone
This came from one of the Lidia’s Italy cookbooks but I can’t remember which one. It is a simple enough recipe that after I read it, I just made it without really checking the details. I just saw the picture as I was cleaning up things and realized I’d never shared it. Salt and pepper…