Category: Main Dishes
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Dinner from the Garden: Broccoli, Snap Peas, Arugula and Radishes
One of my favorite things when the garden is growing is planning dinner based on what’s ready to eat. Tonight that was broccoli, sugar snap peas, arugula and radish. I actually incorporated all them into a delicious dinner. Save
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Warm Spiced Chicken Salad Recipe
Warm chicken on cool lettuce makes a great combo: Chinese chicken salad, Caesar salad with grilled chicken, etc. This chicken is rubbed with cumin, coriander, salt and pepper before being cooked. The dressing has balsamic vinegar, sesame oil, peanut oil and sliced scallions and the salad is topped with sliced radishes. My teenager loved it…
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Eggplant Parmesan from the Freezer Recipe
When I bread and fry eggplants I typically do a LOT and freeze in portions that suit us. Tonight I made some pretty quick eggplant parmesan using the last of my freezer stash of fried eggplant. It’s hard to give measurements for the eggplant because I just sort of used up what I had left,…
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Chicken Enchiladas Verde for 4
Because I’m close to being a Pam Anderson groupie, I bought Perfect One-Dish Dinners: All You Need for Easy Get-Togethers, sight unseen. Didn’t even ask my library to get a copy first! Her books have never disappointed me and only once can I remember making a recipe that wasn’t superb. (And it was superb later…
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Shepherd’s Pie #4
I’ve played around with a number of Shepherd’s Pie recipes and I think tonight’s was the best yet. First, I will say yes I know that this technically was a “Cottage Pie” if you’re British apparently. I used ground beef rather than lamb. In my part of the US, it would be called Shepherd’s Pie…