Category: Main Dishes
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Fried Apples
This is one of my cheater meals. Heating up kielbasa or some other precooked sausage, whether grilled or pan-fried, hardly seems to count as cooking to me. And I know they’re not healthy, but they do taste good! Some nights, a treat is in order and an easy dinner is on the menu. Tonight with…
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Chicken Saute with Vinegar
Marion Cunningham must really like this recipe! It’s in both her Lost Recipes and The Supper Book, with slight variations. I’ve rarely been steered wrong by Ms. Cunningham, having first connected her name with my favorite The Fannie Farmer Cookbook years ago. The recipes vary slightly, with different amounts of butter, the addition of tomato…
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Ground Beef and Spinach: San Francisco Joe’s Special Recipe
This is one of those recipes I’ve seen off and on for years, typically referenced by a nod to a San Francisco restaurant. Somehow I’ve only now just gotten around to trying it. I went to Costco today. My main client’s staff was at an off-site meeting so I figured this was a good day…
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Spaghetti with Shrimp & Ricotta Sauce
Ricotta cheese was on sale “buy 1 get 1 free” and they were the large containers. So 2 large containers ended up costing me less than one smaller container, which was still more than I needed. I take opportunities like this to explore new recipes. Eldest is tired of chicken. Around here chicken is today’s…
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Flank Steak Marinade with Worcestershire Sauce and Garlic
I had another family over for dinner tonight. It was one of those fairly spontaneous things that works out to be perfect! Sometimes, we try to line up dinner and we end up months out and then someone gets sick or something else comes up and we need to postpone and reschedule. My friend had…