Category: Main Dishes
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Easy Pork Chop Recipe
I’m a pattern seeker/finder by nature. One thing that led me to learn how to experiment in the kitchen is seeing the patterns in various recipes for “nearly” the same thing. Take pork chops. One recipe says brown, the cover with x, then cover the pan and simmer for 30 minutes (or 45 or 60).…
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Soft Tacos with Pork Carnitas
Record the day. I almost followed a recipe exactly. I did, however, begin with a different cut of meat… This is from the most recent issue of Cooking Light. I have to say I stopped my subscription because I got tired of all the non-cooking stuff in there. I don’t want to read about exercise,…
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Summer Pasta with Fresh Tomatoes, Onion, and Basil
This is one of my favorite dinners in the summer, when I can walk out in the garden and pick the tomatoes just before dinner. My girls won’t eat it with the onions so I only put them in when they’re gone. I’m not sure about measurements since I just chop enough tomatoes and cook…
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Oldie but Goodie: Chicken Quesadillas
I’ve written this up before but blogs are not meant to be read through so new readers may have missed it. One of our favorite ways of using up leftover chicken is to make chicken quesadillas. The other night I roasted a chicken. As is often the case, I bought 2 or 3 when they…
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Sauteed Fish with Butter and Capers
My kids asked me to cook sole for dinner the other night–“the way you did last time. That was really good.” I couldn’t remember what I’d done though. No problem, I thought. I’ll go look it up on the blog. But it wasn’t here! I’ve been remiss. So I hunted through my old cookbooks desperately…