Category: Main Dishes
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Basic Frittata and Marinated Zucchini
Two recipes from the Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home book tonight for dinner. The first was a marinated zucchini recipe. I’ve been wanting to try a frittata for some time. Perhaps partially because my ex’s grandmother’s maiden name was Frittita. So close! If my potatoes had actually grown this year, I could have almost…
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Grilled Dinner: Chicken, Potatoes & Crookneck Squash
It was hot here yesterday. I wandered the garden to see what I could use for dinner, along with the chicken I was marinating in some Greek herbs, olive oil and lemon juice. Picked a crookneck squash, some tomatoes, a cucumber and some basil. I am making freezer pickles with the cucumber (plus an onion…
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Rice Salad with Chicken, Black Beans and Feta
During the summer especially, I like having a salad or two in the fridge to serve as side dishes for dinner or a main dish for lunch. A good friend served this Rice Salad with Chicken, Black Beans and Feta when I was over at her house for lunch and shared the recipe. As she…
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Sometimes You Just Want Roast Chicken
The weather here has gone from 99 degrees last week to nearly an inch of rain yesterday! It doesn’t usually rain in June here. If it does, it sprinkles. This was a full-out downpour that made my back gutter overflow because the water was coming down so fast! A nice warm dinner with chicken and…
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Skillet Dinner: Bulk Sausage, Potatoes & Tomatoes
On a riff from a bulk sausage and red potato dish with rosemary and garlic in Desperation Dinners, I made this dish tonight with some cubed Yukon Gold potatoes from the farmer’s market. My daughter walked into the kitchen as I was figuring out dinner. I knew dinner would have 1/2 a pound of the…