Category: Side Dishes
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Simple Salads – This with a Thai Inspiration
I have lately been into the simplest of salads. Tonight I made Pad Thai and mixed up a simple tomato and cucumber salad to go with it, using rice vinegar and sugar in the dressing to give it an Asian twist. Someone commented on an earlier post about using a food chopper for things like…
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Asparagus, Bacon and Soft Boiled Egg Salad Recipe from Around My French Table
This recipe came from Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours. I’ve seen soft boiled eggs on top of various things before, including asparagus but had not gotten around to trying it. The other night I was home alone for dinner and felt like cooking but not like creating…
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Chicken Under a Brick, Roast Potatoes and Salad
Flattening a whole chicken by cutting out the backbone and flattening it a bit makes it cook more quickly. I’ve done this before, with a recipe from Jacques Pepin that was browned on the stove and then finished in the oven. Tonight I did the same technique, but just rubbed some salt, pepper, granulated garlic…
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Orzo: The Pasta that Looks Like Rice
Orzo is a little pasta that looks like rice. You can cook it like pasta and then drain it or cook it like rice, measuring the water and letting it absorb it all. A simple pat of butter, squirt of lemon juice and some parsley adds a nice touch of flavor. To cook it like…
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Iceberg Lettuce with a Simple Cream Dressing
I had done an earlier variation of this dressing that Jacques Pepin has in his Fast Food My Way cookbook. This one, from The Supper Book: 10th Anniversary Edition, starts with cream but uses more vinegar and adds sugar for a sweet touch and leaves out the salt and pepper. I used half and…