Category: Main Dishes
-
Easier Than Stir-Fry Chicken
This Easier Than Stir-Fry Chicken is from Linda Eckhardt’s “Feed Your Family on $10 a Day” cookbook, which is out of print at this point but pick it up used if you can find a copy. She said the recipe started as a plum stir-fry chicken but sometimes she didn’t have plum jam. And she…
-
Quick Beef and Rice
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…
-
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.