If you have time and inclination, make your own cream of mushroom soup.
Main Dishes
Pasta with Fresh Tomato Sauce
Fresh tomatoes in the garden or at the farmer’s market? Here’s a great pasta recipe, totally adaptable to different quantities. Chop the tomatoes and put them in a bowl. Add chopped onion, garlic, olive oil, fresh chopped basil, and chunk of mozzarella (or grated cheddar), plus salt and pepper. Let it sit around an hour…
Simple Flank Steak Marinade
My mother’s simple flank steak marinade is still one of my favorites. My parents were not big barbecue people but hamburgers and flank steaks were almost always grilled outside. This simple marinade adds a lot of flavor to the flank steak even though it’s only got a few ingredients. You can use fresh or dried…
Small Batch Eggplant Parmesan from the Freezer
Remember that fried eggplant I made up and froze a while back? I used some of it to make a small batch eggplant Parmesan last night. I had not frozen it before so I was curious as to how it would turn out. I could not taste the difference between freshly cooking the eggplant and…
Chinese Chicken Salad for One
I was alone for dinner last night and got a craving for a Chinese Chicken Salad. Scoured some cookbooks and couldn’t find anything that sounded right, though. The dressing was the crucial part for me and all I could find was one that had mayonnaise in it! Not at all what I think of for…