Category: Main Dishes
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Upgraded Macaroni and Cheese Recipe
We love our old macaroni and cheese recipe, which is how my mom used to make it–making a white sauce with butter, flour and dry mustard and adding in grated Cheddar. I like it with onion but the girls prefer I leave it out. But I keep playing around with recipes from Lidia’s Italy in…
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Chicken and Vegetable Stir Fry
This delicious chicken and vegetable stir fry used up the last of the extra vegetables from the grad party last weekend, including broccoli and various colored peppers. One thing I like about a good stir fry is the flexibility and the fact that it’s a very tasty way to eat a lot of vegetables! This…
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Chard and Ricotta Pie
I keep trying to like chard, partially because it seems to grow so readily here! But I’m not a huge fan. The other night I made this chard and ricotta pie because I had chard in the garden and ricotta in the fridge that needed using up. I used Parmesan cheese and half and half…
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Baked Ziti with Meat Sauce
I’ve been going through my freezer trying to use up the odds and ends and ran into half a pound of ground beef cooked with peppers and onions. I thought it would go well in a pasta sauce so quickly cooked up some marinara (from canned tomatoes) and added the meat to simmer for a…
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Pasta with Fresh Tomatoes, Onions and Cheese
This recipe for Pasta with Fresh Tomatoes, Onions and Cheese is such a flexible “recipe” — I love it! All you REALLY need are fresh tomatoes and some kind of cheese and pasta. My original inspiration from this came from Don’t Eat Your Heart Out Cookbook. (That’s an affiliate link. I’ll make a small bit…