Category: Winter
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Pacific Lime Chicken from Pure Simple Cooking
These Pacific Lime Chicken Thighs are marinated in soy sauce, honey and lime juice, then baked. Cutting slashes in the underside of the chicken helps the marinade penetrate, even if you only marinate for fifteen minutes or so while the oven preheats. I checked Pure Simple Cooking: Effortless Meals Every Day by Diana Henry out…
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Pasta with Ricotta Cheese
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…
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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…
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Simple Cooked Cabbage
I do like cabbage but I am not particularly fond of cabbage that has been cooked to death. I find the simple steam/saute method works great with cabbage (and many other vegetables!). Basically, you simmer the vegetable in a mix of butter (or other fat) and water (or broth) until the liquid has evaporated and…