For a quick meal, a nice stir fry can’t be beat, especially with bits from the garden. I usually mix up something like this Beef and Broccoli Stir Fry but when I read the post on Northwest Edible Life about keeping a Mason jar of stir fry sauce in the fridge I had to try…
Seafood
Jamie Oliver’s Salmon Tikka with Garlic & Nutmeg Rice
I’ve always been taken with the idea of cooking my way through an entire cookbook, long before Julie and Julia. Reading Jamie Oliver’s newsletter I saw that this woman Amy had cooked her way through his Revolution cookbook, which I love. I have talked about having some sort of cooking party to do his “teach…
Fish Tacos and Rice with Lime and Cilantro from The Food Nanny
Tonight was another dinner taken from The Food Nanny Rescues Dinner: Easy Family Meals for Every Day of the Week. fish tacos with tilapia and homemade corn tortillas rice with cilantro, cumin and lime juice black beans (from a can, just heated) Homemade Corn Tortillas I used to make tortillas back when the kids were…
Barramundi Fish Filets with Piccata Sauce
Last night I thawed out a frozen fish filet. It was large enough for the two of us. I didn’t have a plan about how to cook it but saw a recipe for piccata sauce on the package and went with that, with a few additions of my own. I’ve done chicken piccata and pork…
Tuna Melts on Really Good English Muffins
Bad picture but good tuna melts! A good friend sent me some English Muffins from Wolferman’s for Christmas. We started working together, whoa, something like 23 years ago I think and got along great. Then I quit work for a while to stay home with my kids and we drifted apart but still stayed in…