Category: Main Dishes
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Chicken Piccata for 2
An oldie but a goodie. Pound a chicken breast (or slice it in half if you’re lazy like me and it’s partially frozen), salt and pepper, dredge in flour then fry in some olive oil until done. Take it out of the pan. Add juice from half a lemon, 1/4 cup or so white wine,…
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Chile Verde: 85 cents a serving
When I was checking out the marked down beef bones I used to make beef broth, I spotted some pork marked down as well. I picked up one pork shoulder steak (boneless) for .73 and it weighed about a pound. I also saw some “pork stew meat” for $1.73 which was also about a pound.…
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Beef Broth
Ah, true confessions here. I make chicken broth all the time. In fact, I cannot remember the last time I bought chicken broth. I keep a container for carrot, onion, and celery ends in the freezer and a bag full of chicken bones and make broth periodically. I freeze it 1, 2, and 4 cup…
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Applesauce Pork Chops
Adapted from a Taste of Home recipe… I almost always cook up sauteed apples whenever I make pork chops. That’s easy. Peel (or not) , core, and slice apples, then cook in a bit of butter and sprinkle with brown sugar when they’re soft. This recipe called for cooking the pork chops with the apples…
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Steak with Soy Sauce & Balsamic Vinegar Marinade
A few weeks ago London Broils were on sale so I bought two and threw one in the freezer. A few days ago I defrosted it. I was going to do a teriyaki marinade I love, but it makes a ton of marinade, way more than I needed for this one steak. So I looked…