Category: Main Dishes

  • Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps Recipe

    Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps Recipe

    A few days when I was glancing through some cookbooks I saw some chicken lettuce wraps that looked delicious,  so I put butter lettuce on the shopping list but neglected to mark the recipe. I sat down tonight and couldn’t find it, but I went online and found this as a starting point.  I made…

  • Onions Stuffed with Breadcrumbs & Spinach

    Onions Stuffed with Breadcrumbs & Spinach

    I went to a nice dinner party on Saturday at some friends’ house and offered to bring a side dish. I settled on Stuffed Onions from How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food and they were really good! Huge, but good. Half was plenty for me with all the other good…

  • Chicken Tortilla Soup

    Chicken Tortilla Soup

    I started with this recipe from Allrecipes.com and modified it a bit according to various comments and what I had on hand. It was really good and very filling. I have lots left over for lunches and froze some for later.

  • Chicken Cacciatore Sandwiches

    Chicken Cacciatore Sandwiches

    These were inspired by Rachel Ray’s recipe in Classic 30-Minute Meals: The All-Occasion Cookbook but I modified based on the fact that I was only serving 2 people and used up what I had on hand rather than her specifics. As I often do, I followed the spirit of the recipe rather than the letter.

  • Barba Yianni’s Grilled Lamb

    Barba Yianni’s Grilled Lamb

    I didn’t grow up eating lamb, but good friends of mine have often cooked lamb when I’ve gone to their house and I’ve enjoyed it. And my girls’ friends who live next door like lamb, although they don’t like other meat much, so I said I’d try my hand at some. I pulled out my…