Category: Main Dishes
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Menu: Indian Dinner – Some in the Crockpot
A while back I had bought The Indian Slow Cooker: 50 Healthy, Easy, Authentic Recipes and I finally got around to trying a few recipes. I only have one slow cooker so the day before I made up the Cauliflower and Potato dish, then reheated on the stove last night. The cauliflower stayed nice and…
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Chicken Under a Brick, Roast Potatoes and Salad
Flattening a whole chicken by cutting out the backbone and flattening it a bit makes it cook more quickly. I’ve done this before, with a recipe from Jacques Pepin that was browned on the stove and then finished in the oven. Tonight I did the same technique, but just rubbed some salt, pepper, granulated garlic…
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Spaghetti and Meat Sauce with Italian Sausage
We had some family friends over for dinner tonight. It’s not often we all get together, although the girls see each other sometimes and I have lunch with my friend periodically. It was such a nice evening, all together at one table. I wanted to make a dinner that didn’t have too much going on…
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Fish Tacos and Rice with Lime and Cilantro from The Food Nanny
Tonight was another dinner taken from The Food Nanny Rescues Dinner: Easy Family Meals for Every Day of the Week. fish tacos with tilapia and homemade corn tortillas rice with cilantro, cumin and lime juice black beans (from a can, just heated) Homemade Corn Tortillas I used to make tortillas back when the kids were…
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Fired Up Macaroni and Cheese from The Food Nanny Rescues Dinner
I’ve been checking out the new cookbooks from my library and The Food Nanny Rescues Dinner is the second one recently that I am tempted to purchase. It’s just not recipes but some planning ideas since most of us who cook every night will readily agree that the hard part is NOT cooking: It’s figuring…