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How to Grill Vegetables – With and Without Skewers
When you’ve got the grill lit up for your meat, cook your vegetables on it as well instead of heating up the stove. Grilling vegetables can be as simple as you’d like or you can get a little fancy. You can grill a variety of vegetables including bell peppers (whatever color you fancy), yellow and…
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Raising the Salad Bar: Book Review
I just bought this book, Raising the Salad Bar, and am loving it! The book covers regular green leafy salads, some grain salads, meat and seafood main dish kind of salads, chicken salad, pasta salad… I had some friends over for a 4th of July barbecue tonight and the book was laying out, as I’d…
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Slightly Lemon Rice
I made this lemon rice to go with the Persian Chicken I made the other day. I made this in my rice cooker but you could easily adapt to the stove. However, if you like rice, a rice cooker is a great appliance! And a great resource for rice cooker recipes is The Ultimate Rice…
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London Broil Marinated in a Bourbon Marinade and Grilled
When I bought my new grill last summer I picked up Weber’s Real Grilling: Over 200 Original Recipes book while I was waiting for them to roll out the pre-assembled grill (because I hate putting stuff together). I was taken with the recipes, which sounded good and there are pictures for most if not all…
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Persian Chicken Marinated in Yogurt and Grilled
When my book club read Rooftops of Tehran: A Novel, a wonderful book by the way, the hostess made this Persian chicken. She baked it and served it with a delicious green salad and some bolani from the Afghan stall at our farmers’ market. It was a wonderful dinner and a wonderful book. I asked…