Category: Italian
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Quick and Dirty Meat Sauce
Sometimes I make meatballs. Sometimes I buy those frozen meatballs. They periodically go on sale for a price that rivals the cost per pound for ground beef. But sometimes I also just make a meat sauce with loose browned ground beef. I vary the canned tomato products depending on what I have around. There’s almost…
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Cheap and Easy Meat Sauce and Pasta
We had another family over for dinner this weekend and I decided to make just an easy meat sauce for dinner rather than cooking anything too fancy. I got the sauce started about an hour before they arrived, made up a salad, and got some garlic bread ready to pop under the broiler. This left…
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Eggplant Parmesan
Eggplants. I love the look of them and the texture and flavor. In Chinese restaurants, I love the garlic, pork, and eggplant dish that I first had 20 years ago. (Hmmm… I should probably try to make that one day.) In the meantime, I satisfy my eggplant craving at home with eggplant Parmesan. In the…
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Easy Spaghetti Sauce from Canned Tomatoes and Sauce
I love a sauce made from fresh tomatoes as much as anyone, but in the winter… I refuse to buy tomatoes in the winter as they’re so tasteless and of dubious texture. I grow tomatoes in the summer and would rather do without when they’re like cardboard. But canned tomatoes are of decent quality to…
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Baked Chicken Parmesan
This is somewhat similar to the chicken cutlets my ex MIL taught me to make but they’re baked rather than fried, so require a lot less last-minute attention. And of course anything with Worcestershire catches my attention! What Do You Serve with Chicken Parmesan? I served these chicken Parmesan breasts with Green salad with Green…