My eldest asked that I make this pasta with ricotta cheese. She remembered that she used to love it and asked for it so many times she finally got sick of it. She said she also remembered taking it to the pool to eat at room temperature. At dinner tonight she said it was as…
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Buttermilk Pot Roast with Potatoes and Carrots
This Buttermilk Pot Roast is from Nourishing Traditions, which I picked up at a used bookstore recently. I don’t have an opinion about her nutrition ideas but the recipes sounded interesting. And the idea for marinating pot roast in buttermilk for a day or two was intriguing. I soak chicken breasts in buttermilk before making…
Quick Marinated Cucumber Salad
This quick marinated cucumber salad is one of my favorite summertime side dishes. It keeps a few days in the fridge… not sure how long because I usually eat it up within 4 or 5 days. You can make this the day you’re serving it if you can allow a couple of hours for everything…
Gazpacho
It’s summer and the tomatoes are plentiful and good. I have tomatoes on toast for breakfast, sometimes with a scrambled egg but often just plain. I get to walk out and pick the ripest tomatoes for my breakfast, which is about as good as it gets. When the tomatoes become really plentiful, I make gazpacho….
Cauliflower Cheese
I was rereading The Shell Seekers, a lovely book, and they kept serving cauliflower cheese during the war. It made me want to try some. When I looked it up, it seems it is basically cooked cauliflower with a cheese sauce on top, sounded both easy and good. And I had a cauliflower sitting in…