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Easy Baked Curry, Mustard & Honey Chicken
A couple of years ago I was sent a review copy of The Six O’Clock Scramble: Quick, Healthy, and Delicious Dinner Recipes for Busy Families. I have enjoyed several recipes from it and then it somehow slipped out of favor and hid on the shelf that holds my cookbooks! A while back a friend of…
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Quick Beef Stew from Jacques Pepin
Yes, it was 90 something degrees yesterday and hot! But my youngest came home from her horseback riding not feeling well and said beef stew sounded really good to her if there was any way I could make that for dinner! At first I said no, thinking of stew cooking for hours and hours, but…
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Daikon and Carrot Pickle (aka Do Chua)
Even our local Safeway carries daikon radishes now, plus I can get them at our farmer’s market too. I wanted to make a home version of banh mi sandwich last night so went online to find a recipe. Ended up at the Viet World Kitchen and used the recipe here for Do Chua. Aren’t they…
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Zucchini Refrigerator Pickles
Being a fan of almost anything pickled, I decided to try zucchini pickles. Even though I only planted 3 plants and 1 is not producing, I’m still finding we have plenty of zucchini. I saw this recipe for zucchini pickles in my Cooking Light magazine and decided to give them a try. I made these…
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Margherita Pizza
So apparently Queen Margherita of Italy had to visit Naples in 1899 to escape a cholera epidemic in northern Italy. A local chef made this for her, based on the colors of the Italian flag, and she loved it so he named it after her. True or not, the pizza is a fine example of…