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Breaded Fried Shrimp with Spaghetti
This Breaded Fried Shrimp with Spaghetti has broccoli and asparagus and a light sauce. What’s not to love?! This is another fantastic recipe from Lidia’s Italy in America, one of my favorite Italian cookbooks. I am new to cooking shrimp. I’ve said it before–I’m just not a big fish / seafood person. But this recipe…
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Chinese Chicken Salad
With the warmer weather, we are coming up on the time when a salad for dinner sounds really good. The combination of warm meat and cool greens with a spicy sweet dressing really hits the spot for me. I’ve been making my way through older recipes and remaking some so I can take pictures and…
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Garlic and Brown Sugar Chicken Breasts
I love recipes that scale easily and these days I’m especially attracted to ones that let me make a good dinner for just one or two people. These chicken breasts were really good. While they were cooking I nuked a potato for a few minutes, just to get it started, then cubed it up and…
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Shepherd’s Pork Chops: Smothered in Onions and Provolone
This came from one of the Lidia’s Italy cookbooks but I can’t remember which one. It is a simple enough recipe that after I read it, I just made it without really checking the details. I just saw the picture as I was cleaning up things and realized I’d never shared it. Salt and pepper…
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Custard and Strawberries
My youngest was home visiting from college this weekend and we walked down to the Farmer’s Market together Saturday morning. She misses good fresh fruit and we picked up a few baskets of strawberries. Many were eaten as we walked through the rest of the market, getting some radishes, carrots and a few other vegetables. …