Category: Main Dishes
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Lazy Pot Roast
I started with the Lisa’s Lazy Pot Roast recipe from The Complete Meat Cookbook but I modified it by adding more vegetables after the pot roast had cooked. First, the basic pot roast, which is FANTASTIC! I used a 7-blade roast, which was on sale at my local grocery. I did the rub, let it…
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Ground Turkey Picadillo
I have seen various recipes for Cuban Picadillo over the years and somehow have delayed trying one until tonight. I love green olives and capers. I was leary of the kids’ reactions due to raisins (which they don’t particularly like). All the recipes I’ve seen call for ground beef of course, but we’ve been on…
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Roasting a BIG Turkey
I have several great recipes for roasting smaller turkeys, say under 18 pounds. If you can easily turn the bird on its side, I like this one. I haven’t yet started brining, as is all the rage. I bought a fresh turkey at Costco for .89/pound. I followed the guidelines from The Perfect Recipe by…
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Cottage Pie (aka Shepherd’s Pie #3)
My understanding is that in Britain Shepherd’s Pie is made from lamb and Cottage Pie is made from beef. In the United States, I’ve never heard of Cottage Pie and what I fixed tonight would be called Shepherd’s Pie by anyone I know, and any restaurant I’ve been to (admittedly not many!). So I make…
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Chili Verde: $1.50 per serving
I tried a new recipe for Chili Verde tonight, since pork roasts had been on sale. I bought two roasts (4 pounds total) and used one for the chili verde tonight, then Food Saver’d the other for later. There were a two major differences between this and my earlier recipe for chili verde. This one…