Category: Main Dishes
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Chicken Thighs Braised in Red Wine (aka Coq au Vin)
From How to Cook Everything, Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition: 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food but I only used boneless skinless chicken thighs and about half a chicken’s worth I estimated, so halved the recipes. Also, I didn’t have small boiling onions so just sliced a regular yellow onion. Skipped his suggestion of dried…
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Caribbean Red Bean and Pork Stew
I saw some pork stew meat on sale yesterday and decided to make some sort of stew that night. I found this Caribbean stew with red beans and pork in my Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition – 2006. I had everything else I needed, including a green pepper I picked from a pepper plant…
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Summer Marinara Sauce for Eggplant & Zucchini Parmesan
The two of us living here right now LOVE Eggplant Parmesan and I usually do something similar to this eggplant Parmesan recipe. I’ve also made zucchini Parmesan. The first time I made that by just frying the zucchini but not breading them first and it definitely lacked a little something, although it was still good.…
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Huevos Rancheros with Ranchero Sauce
I cooked up some Ranchero Sauce, roughly following a recipe in The Well-Filled Tortilla Cookbook. It was wonderful to go pick the tomatoes and chilies for this! It would go well on all kinds of things but was absolutely delicious on the eggs. I also stirred some into the black beans. As it was cooking, …
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Jamie Oliver’s Salmon Tikka with Garlic & Nutmeg Rice
I’ve always been taken with the idea of cooking my way through an entire cookbook, long before Julie and Julia. Reading Jamie Oliver’s newsletter I saw that this woman Amy had cooked her way through his Revolution cookbook, which I love. I have talked about having some sort of cooking party to do his “teach…