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Chicken and Leek Pie from Nigel Slater
This chicken and leek pie is from Nigel Slater’s cookbook Notes from the Larder: A Kitchen Diary with Recipes. It’s organized seasonally but also has a good index so you can browse that way if you’d like or use it to find something you read about earlier. I also love his Eat: The Little Book of Fast Food. The…
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Soy Sauce and Honey Marinade for Steak
I love trying out new marinades. Good beef is good without a marinade but can be great with a good marinade! This Soy Sauce and Honey Marinade for Steak is very good with tri-tip and flank steak, my usual beef cuts.
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Lemon and Leek Linguine
This came from the October 2010 issue of Cooking Light magazine. I actually followed their serving suggestion as well and served it with lightly floured and seasoned chicken breasts, pounded thin and then cooked in butter and oil.
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Frog Eye Soup (Carrot and Pasta Soup)
Frog Eye Soup is my family’s favorite soup, hands down. Even the favorite of their friends! Look for little tiny pasta shapes: pastine, ancini di pepe (peppercorn sized), or little alphabet pastas. My kids and any visiting children have always loved this simple soup. The ancini di pepe pasta is tiny and round and somehow…
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Baked Potato Soup
At its simplest, baked potato soup is just chopped baked potatoes in chicken broth and milk with some cooked onions as well. Cooking some bacon and then cooking the chopped onions in the bacon grease adds lots of flavor. Add some herbs, maybe some cheese and hot sauce. Put small bowls of toppings out for…