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  • Homemade Enchilada Sauce for Turkey Enchiladas

    Homemade Enchilada Sauce for Turkey Enchiladas

    Just in time for Thanksgiving here in the US. I roasted a turkey on Sunday, sort of a pre-holiday feast since I won’t be hosting turkey day this year. Nothing fancy about the roasting I did–just an herbed butter rubbed all over. I made some broth from the carcass yesterday, of course, and will make…

  • Stracciatelle or “Rag Soup”

    Stracciatelle or “Rag Soup”

    I still have some spinach from the big bag I bought at Costco. We had chicken the other night, so I had made broth from the bones and scraps, figuring on making soup. One of my daughters is on half-days at school this week so I thought welcoming her home with a nice bowl of…

  • Creamed Spinach

    Creamed Spinach

    I bought a big bag of fresh spinach the other day because I love spinach salads but there is a LOT of spinach in a bag! So I just made the most wonderful cream of spinach, to use some more of it up.

  • Sherried Beef Sirloin Tips

    Sherried Beef Sirloin Tips

    Dinner tonight is Sherried Beef  Sirloin Tips. I’m making with a half a London Broil. I don’t use canned or packaged items very often but this is quite good and easy.  The recipe is from Mom’s Updated Recipe Box. (Available used on Amazon for 50 cents– a real bargain!) This is an easy “throw together” dinner…

  • Corn Chowder

    Corn Chowder

    Soup time! Corn chowder last night, which I made from a conglomeration of recipes. I served it last night with Welsh Rarebit. Tonight with the girls gone I sautéed some diced red peppers in a bit of butter and added them to the corn chowder. They added a nice bit of crunch!