Category: Main Dishes
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Hamburgers from Jamie Oliver
The hamburger recipe from Jamie’s Food Revolution: Rediscover How to Cook Simple, Delicious, Affordable Meals is actually pretty darn close to my mom’s old recipe. He uses cream crackers crumbled up instead of bread crumbs and leaves out the Worcestershire, ketchup and horseradish. I really like the addition of the fresh parsley but if I…
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Chicken Biryani Curry from Jamie Oliver
I made some more great Indian curries the other night. The Patak curry pastes and cooking sauces are really good! I used the Pataks Biryani Paste with this curry last night. Basic genesis of the recipe comes from Jamie’s Food Revolution: Rediscover How to Cook Simple, Delicious, Affordable Meals, one of my favorite new cookbooks.…
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Parmesan Pork and a Giveaway
I was sent the cookbook “All You, Eat Well, Save Big” to review. It is a nice cookbook, with pictures of each meal, nice easy suggestions for side dishes and recipes for the main courses. They calculate a price per serving for each meal so you can get a rough idea of costs (although your…
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Meatloaf on the Table in 20 Minutes!
Of course, it’s not really a “loaf” when you form it into patties, but the flavor of this skillet meatloaf says meatloaf! There are so many good variations of meatloaf. This one has Parmesan cheese in it, a new variation for me, and it was a very good one. The recipe came from Desperation Dinners,…
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Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas
I’ve always loved chicken enchiladas with a green sauce at Mexican restaurants and was hoping this would be a good substitute! I found them lacking something, although my children enjoyed them. I think it was onions I was missing. But if I’d added them that might have meant the children did not like them, as they’re…