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Shepherd’s Pie #4
I’ve played around with a number of Shepherd’s Pie recipes and I think tonight’s was the best yet. First, I will say yes I know that this technically was a “Cottage Pie” if you’re British apparently. I used ground beef rather than lamb. In my part of the US, it would be called Shepherd’s Pie…
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Pad Thai Recipe with No Claims to Being Authentic in Any Way
I had shrimp in the freezer and bean sprouts in the fridge, plus had just scored some tamarind paste at Ranch 99. What to do? Pad Thai! I started with the recipe from The Steamy Kitchen Cookbook: 101 Asian Recipes Simple Enough for Tonight’s Dinner but didn’t have any pad Thai paste so went online.…
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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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Cooking Sunday
Sometimes the best way to save money is to do as much as you can on the weekends to make your week go more smoothly. To that end, today I: Mixed up and refrigerated a tart crust to make a quiche later this week (recipe from Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes from…