Category: Main Dishes
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Yogurt Marinated Chicken in a Food Saver
Am I the last person to buy a FoodSaver? Everyone seems to assume I’ve had one for years somehow, but I’m not generally a big fan of gadgets. But I broke down and bought one a few weeks ago and have been enjoying freezing meats and sealing up cheese to avoid spoilage. So far, so…
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Quick and Dirty Meat Sauce
Sometimes I make meatballs. Sometimes I buy those frozen meatballs. They periodically go on sale for a price that rivals the cost per pound for ground beef. But sometimes I also just make a meat sauce with loose browned ground beef. I vary the canned tomato products depending on what I have around. There’s almost…
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Tuna Casserole
One daughter loves it; one hates it. Ah well. The 70’s cookbooks call for cream of celery soup and crushed potato chips on top it seems. I went for the homemade white sauce last night. If I were to do it differently, I might add a bit of cheddar cheese to the sauce, or maybe…
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Easy Garlic Chicken Breasts From Saving Dinner
This is from Saving Dinner, which I borrowed from the library after reading so many rave reviews. The recipes in here are fairly simple, mostly use what I consider “real” ingredients, and so far the ones I’ve tried have been quite tasty. There is a lot of recipes for boneless skinless chicken breasts. Perhaps too…
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Awesome Pork Loin
The Pork Loin (served 7 plus lots of leftovers) Pork loins were on sale this week. I do not know my meat cuts well at all so I really enjoy this book my sister gave me, The Complete Meat Cookbook. There are great explanations at the beginning of each chapter about the different cuts and…