I cooked up some Ranchero Sauce, roughly following a recipe in The Well-Filled Tortilla Cookbook. It was wonderful to go pick the tomatoes and chilies for this! It would go well on all kinds of things but was absolutely delicious on the eggs. I also stirred some into the black beans. As it was cooking, …
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Basic Frittata and Marinated Zucchini
Two recipes from the Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home book tonight for dinner. The first was a marinated zucchini recipe. I’ve been wanting to try a frittata for some time. Perhaps partially because my ex’s grandmother’s maiden name was Frittita. So close! If my potatoes had actually grown this year, I could have almost…
Dinner from the Garden: Broccoli, Snap Peas, Arugula and Radishes
One of my favorite things when the garden is growing is planning dinner based on what’s ready to eat. Tonight that was broccoli, sugar snap peas, arugula and radish. I actually incorporated all them into a delicious dinner. Save
Eggplant Parmesan from the Freezer Recipe
When I bread and fry eggplants I typically do a LOT and freeze in portions that suit us. Tonight I made some pretty quick eggplant parmesan using the last of my freezer stash of fried eggplant. It’s hard to give measurements for the eggplant because I just sort of used up what I had left,…
Fired Up Macaroni and Cheese from The Food Nanny Rescues Dinner
I’ve been checking out the new cookbooks from my library and The Food Nanny Rescues Dinner is the second one recently that I am tempted to purchase. It’s just not recipes but some planning ideas since most of us who cook every night will readily agree that the hard part is NOT cooking: It’s figuring…