Category: Main Dishes
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Crab Cakes from Leftover Fresh Crab
Hopefully you can splurge now and then on some special food, whatever that is for your family. And then if there are leftovers you certainly don’t want to waste them! For us, or at least for me, it’s fresh crab, which is in season right now. It’s our traditional New Year’s Eve dinner and such…
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Chicken Parmesan: One of the Ultimate Leftovers
I’m just guessing but I think Chicken Parmesan came about when someone like me made too many chicken cutlets. You can turn them into pretty good chicken sandwiches (why else would they sell frozen breaded chicken patties?) and even Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches. But I think the classic dish for leftover chicken cutlets has to be…
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Tori Soboru – Gingery Spiced Chicken
I promised my daughter I’d only do one new Asian dish this week and since I have more time to explore new things on weekends, tonight was it! I made this gingery spiced chicken from Washoku: Recipes from the Japanese Home Kitchen. Of course, she LOVED it! I made this then served it over rice…
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Baked 5 Spice Chicken Legs
This chicken was from HapaBento’s 5 Spice Baked Chicken. I don’t pack proper Bentos but love the idea and enjoy the generally quick and easy recipes and the philosophy of eating multiple colors at each meal. (As an example of my not proper Bentos, today’s lunch was leftover cheese pizza, grape tomatoes, and sliced apple.…
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Spicy Shrimp in Coconut Sauce
A friend passed along some older issues of Cooking Light magazine last weekend. I got fixed on using up some frozen shrimp I had so browsed through a few issues for some ideas. There were several that sounded quite good and I settled on this one. I made some steamed rice and snow peas to…