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Penne with Brussels Sprouts
I had some Brussels sprouts left over from the holidays that needed using up but I felt like doing something other than just roasting them. I thumbed through a few cookbooks and saw a recipe in Melissa Clark’s Dinner, a fun cookbook for playing around on weeknights, that caught my eye. Penne & Brussels Sprouts…
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Chicken Tetrazzini for Two
In the quest for using up food leftover from the holidays, I’m targeting a large container of mushrooms I bought. I made a small portion of chicken tetrazzini for dinner, trying not to create more than one portion of leftovers! I had some cooked chicken leftover from making this fantastic “cure-all chicken soup” with spicy…
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Readers’ Favorite Recipes – 2018
Earlier I wrote up my favorite recipes and now here are the most popular recipes, or at least the most visited recipes, in 2018. The recipes aren’t all from 2018 as many earlier ones continue to be favorites. Lidia’s Red Cabbage and Bacon Salad Nigel Slater’s Chicken and Leek Pie White Bean and Ham Soup…
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My Favorite Dishes of 2018
I know it’s popular to do a rundown of the most popular recipes on a food blog, and I probably will do that, but I also wanted to highlight my personal favorites. These are new to me dishes that I’ve already made more than once this year. Roasted Green Olives. These are cooked with orange…
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Beef Stroganoff
I had a hard time deciding what to make for Christmas dinner this year. We don’t have any firm food traditions for Christmas dinner. Christmas breakfast is always cinnamon rolls, sausage, scrambled eggs and orange juice (with champagne now that the girls are grown!). We varied that a little this year because my youngest wanted…