This Quick Beef and Rice is one of the easiest, quickest kid-friendly recipes around. It’s good easy comfort food and goes together quickly. Serve with some vegetables on the side, cooked carrots or a bowl of vegetable soup. If you don’t have onion soup mix, you can substitute an onion and some beef bouillon or broth. If…
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Chicken and Leek Pie from Nigel Slater
This chicken and leek pie is from Nigel Slater’s cookbook Notes from the Larder: A Kitchen Diary with Recipes. It’s organized seasonally but also has a good index so you can browse that way if you’d like or use it to find something you read about earlier. I also love his Eat: The Little Book of Fast Food. The…
Soy Sauce and Honey Marinade for Steak
I love trying out new marinades. Good beef is good without a marinade but can be great with a good marinade! This Soy Sauce and Honey Marinade for Steak is very good with tri-tip and flank steak, my usual beef cuts.
Lemon and Leek Linguine
This came from the October 2010 issue of Cooking Light magazine. I actually followed their serving suggestion as well and served it with lightly floured and seasoned chicken breasts, pounded thin and then cooked in butter and oil.
Corned Beef and Reuben Sandwiches
I don’t think there’s much disagreement about what goes into a Reuben sandwich. Corned beef, sauerkraut, (Swiss) cheese, Russian dressing and rye bread. I suppose you could argue about what kind of rye bread and what kind of cheese if you wanted. Make your own Russian dressing, for sure. It’s easy and tastes great. I…