Category: Main Dishes
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Easy Spaghetti Sauce from Canned Tomatoes and Sauce
I love a sauce made from fresh tomatoes as much as anyone, but in the winter… I refuse to buy tomatoes in the winter as they’re so tasteless and of dubious texture. I grow tomatoes in the summer and would rather do without when they’re like cardboard. But canned tomatoes are of decent quality to…
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Fried Chicken, Asparagus, Baked Potato
I had bought real buttermilk recently. (Usually I use the powdered stuff for pancakes and coffee cakes and such.) I had also thawed a whole chicken. I was originally planning on roasting it whole, but upon spying the buttermilk I remembered a great chicken cutlet recipe with buttermilk and thought I could do something similar…
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Oven Fried Chicken
Rather than buy those packaged flavored crumbs to bake your chicken or pork in, make up your own flavored breadcrumbs. This makes enough to season two chickens, cut into pieces. Mix it up ahead of time and keep in the pantry.
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Quick and Easy Chili
Purists may not like this, but this was my impression of chili until I went to a friend’s chili cookoff and saw people cooking with real chunks of meat or no meat even. Some had beans and some didn’t. And the fire level! Aye! I couldn’t eat much of it, although it looked and tasted…
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Paper Chef: Chicken with Sauteed Cabbage and Potatoes
My first Paper Chef entry. For those of you who don’t know, this is Tomatillo’s version of the Iron Chef. Ingredients are posted and you need to cook up something using those ingredients within a certain timeframe. I had a dinner party last night and was not brave enough to experiment on them, so this…