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Chicken Florentine Salad
My sister gave me a copy of Simply Salads: More than 100 Creative Recipes You Can Make in Minutes from Prepackaged Greens (affiliate link) for my birthday. She had bought a copy for our mother, then bought one for herself after Mom tried a few of the recipes. I love getting a cookbook which has…
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Black Bean Quesadillas / Fried Tacos
I am enjoying Love Your Leftovers by Nick Evans. I cooked up his Spicy Black Beans yesterday morning and then realized I could try out his self-described cross between tacos and quesadillas. Basically, put a thin coating of oil in a pan, add a corn tortilla, 1/4 cup black beans and a handful of cheese. …
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Macheesmo’s House Salad Dressing with Tarragon Vinegar
I just bought Love Your Leftovers: Through Savvy Meal Planning Turn Classic Main Dishes into More than 100 Delicious Recipes, which looks very promising. Nick Evans writes the food blog Macheesmo. The book gives you some great recipes you can fix when you have more time (like roasting chicken, black beans, baked potatoes, salmon) and…
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Spaghetti and Meat Sauce
I’ve done many variations of spaghetti and meat sauce over the years, like this 30 minute meat sauce or this cook all afternoon “Sunday Gravy” from The Sopranos Cookbook. If you have time to cook the sauce a long time, you can use canned diced tomatoes or whole tomatoes that you squeeze with your hand…
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Sesame Ginger Salmon
If you cook dinner every night, you know the hardest part is sometimes just coming up with the menu! I challenged my daughter to plan dinner. I was happy to do the cooking but I was brain-dead. I’d bought some frozen wild salmon at the grocery store and wanted to cook that. She found this…