CheapCooking
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Onions Stuffed with Breadcrumbs & Spinach
I went to a nice dinner party on Saturday at some friends’ house and offered to bring a side dish. I settled on Stuffed Onions from How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food and they were really good! Huge, but good. Half was plenty for me with all the other good…
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Chicken Tortilla Soup
I started with this recipe from Allrecipes.com and modified it a bit according to various comments and what I had on hand. It was really good and very filling. I have lots left over for lunches and froze some for later.
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Chicken Cacciatore Sandwiches
These were inspired by Rachel Ray’s recipe in Classic 30-Minute Meals: The All-Occasion Cookbook but I modified based on the fact that I was only serving 2 people and used up what I had on hand rather than her specifics. As I often do, I followed the spirit of the recipe rather than the letter.
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Barba Yianni’s Grilled Lamb
I didn’t grow up eating lamb, but good friends of mine have often cooked lamb when I’ve gone to their house and I’ve enjoyed it. And my girls’ friends who live next door like lamb, although they don’t like other meat much, so I said I’d try my hand at some. I pulled out my…
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Grapefruit and Avocado Salad Recipe
I liked this, from The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution by Alice Waters. My kids were disappointed…but mainly because when they saw the pink grapefruit sections with avocado they somehow thought it was some sushi salad and then couldn’t get into eating grapefruit when they had thought it…