I’m now on a quest. Here’s what I tried last night, which was good. Better than the earlier one I posted but not quite perfect. It’s from The New Settlement Cookbook, which you might be able to find around used, as it’s a few years old. I get a lot of good “plain old fashioned”…
Salad
Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad
With the weird weather here, I was torn about what to fix for dinner for my two nieces who came tonight. I started out thinking I’d barbecue but then the forecast was for rain. When I went to the grocery store I saw a 7 blade roast on sale for $5.30, marked down $2. So…
Chicken Salad with Curry, Apples, and Raisins
I’ve been remiss in my blogging. You’d think summer would be the time of taking it easy, but trying to get my “day job” work done at home when the kids are out of school is taking its toll. Cooking has been more repeats than experimentation and what new recipes I’ve tried, I’ve been remiss…
Pasta Salad
Over the weekend, summer started. Well, not exactly. But our summer social life revolves around our neighborhood swim club and we got the first phone call of “Hey, we’re lighting some coals and cooking out tonight at the pool. Want to join us?” I had some of those great apple-chicken sausages. I had some sugar…
Strawberries, Tomatoes, Basil, and Red Onion
Lots red in this and very pretty! Wish I’d caught a picture before we devoured it. No measurements for this one either. A friend had an overabundance of fresh strawberries and made this for dinner the other night. sliced strawberriesquartered and sliced tomatoesfresh basilthinly sliced red onionsliced mozzarella (optional)balsamic vinegar Layer everything prettily on a…