Category: Main Dishes
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Swordfish Kebabs
My kids asked for fish this week. I’ve mentioned that I’m not a huge fish fan personally, yet somehow despite this (or because of this?!) I’ve got kids who love fish! They pretty much like it all, at least all they’ve had so far. I sometimes complicate it a bit, when they’d really prefer it…
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Cheap and Easy Meat Sauce and Pasta
We had another family over for dinner this weekend and I decided to make just an easy meat sauce for dinner rather than cooking anything too fancy. I got the sauce started about an hour before they arrived, made up a salad, and got some garlic bread ready to pop under the broiler. This left…
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Meat Pies or Cornish Pasties
I don’t claim to be an expert on pasties or anything else. In our house we call these Meat Pies. In the British cookbook I got the basic recipe from they’re called Cornish Pasties. It’s a great way to stretch a piece of beef. You can make these using regular pie crust dough or the…
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Pork Roast: Cheater Chili Verde
I had a pork roast in the freezer that I defrosted because I’m trying to empty this old inefficient freezer I have in the garage. I knew it was inefficient when I got it but I was tempted by “free” (in that the freezer itself was free). I definitely saw the PG&E bill go up…
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Fried Fish: Orange Roughy
I had gone to the grocery store earlier today for cat food and out of habit cruised by the meat counter to see what had been marked down. I could not resist the pound and a half of “boneless cross rib roast” marked down from $7 to the “club price” of $2.46, then had a $2…