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Chicken Cutlets with Olio e Aglio
Company for dinner last night so we had 8 kids (ages 2 to 12) and 7 adults. I made chicken cutlets, homemade macaroni and cheese, angel hair pasta with olio e aglio (oil and garlic), a Caesar salad and had applesauce and carrot sticks on the kids’ table. Chicken cutlets. Pound the chicken until thin.…
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Onion Soup
I’m experimenting with a “new” onion soup tonight. I love onion soup. My kids are not overly fond of onions in any form, although my eldest (12) has just discovered, thank goodness, that fried onions, a steak, and a baked potato make a perfect meal! But tonight it’s just me so I’m making onion soup.…
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Spinach Salad with Seasoned Rice Vinegar
The simplest Spinach Salad ever–and healthy too! I love spinach salad. I am actually not fond of cooked spinach, although I try to fix it now and then because I know it’s packed full of good things. My mother used to serve cooked spinach with lemons that we could squeeze onto the pile of wilted,…
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From the Freezer: Baked Penne with Meat Sauce
Made one of the kids’ favorites last night: baked penne with meat sauce. I pulled a bag of meat sauce from the freezer (about 2 -3 cups I guess) and thawed it and warmed it up while I cooked up a half a pound of penne pasta (little tubes). Drained the pasta when it was…
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Onion Quiche
I made a quiche last night that came out wonderfully. You can bake this in a large pie pan or a quiche pan, which I find I use quite a lot. I have a white Corningware quiche pan (affiliate link) like the one below.