Up until recently I did not own a Dutch oven or anything that would have handled a large quantity of food except for a slow cooker. When I pulled this very old recipe from Relishmag.com, I knew I would need to borrow something to hold the quantity of meat, vegetables and broth, that would go…
Two-for one: Grilled Marinated Chicken Breasts with Wild Mushroom Sauce AND Four-Grain Pilaf
Nearly impossible to believe that this recipe was made back in January when we were all bundled up inside. Looking at it still makes my mouth water. And wow, this recipe takes me back…from a USA Weekend newspaper insert titled “$60 menu for six”. The menu is a three course meal including smoked salmon &…
Healthy Substitution: Turkey Schnitzel Dijon
I’m Hungarian. I love schnitzel. When I visited Germany a few years ago, I enjoyed a delightful schnitzel, the hunter sauce, not so much. Jägerschnitzel or veal schnitzel with mushroom gravy, is the traditional way of making this dish, although in Hungary I don’t recall the mushroom gravy accompanying the schnitzel, instead it was a…
Creamy Chicken and Tomato Pasta
This recipe is amazingly easy and tastes like you spent hours on it. Fabulous! I’m pretty sure this is a Good Housekeeping contest winner recipe, and it wasn’t even first prize. Pasta, chicken, basil, sun dried tomatoes…need I say more? As the Alfredo sauce mixes with the sun dried tomatoes, the sauce takes on more…
No Recipe Necessary: Grilled Lamb Chops with Herb Sauce
I’m not even sure why I had this recipe card in my stack. Maybe I thought it might be more involved? When you read through this recipe, if you’re someone that knows their way around the kitchen go ahead and laugh and then move on. Not sure why someone would even create a recipe that…
Perfectly pillowy Pumpkin Ravioli
Every once in a great while I will receive a batch of store coupons and along with them will come some easy to make at home recipe that usually incorporates some brand name or store brand product. I’m not sure when this Kroger recipe snuck into my pile, but there it was…taunting me to try…
Vegetarian Test Kitchen Meal#2 Side trip to Oaxaca…Sweet Potato and Mushroom Burritos…oh Yum!
Okay, I’m not 100% sure this recipe comes from Oaxaca, but I remember Chef Mark Smith from the Tortilla Press in Collingswood, New Jersey traveling with his kitchen team to Oaxaca and other culinary corners of Mexico each year, seeking out unique ingredients and recipes to bring back to his restaurant and recreating the most…
Can a carnivore create an herbivore’s dream meal? Test kitchen meal#1: Linguine with vegetables…and there’s a surprise.
What do you do when a member of the family is vegetarian and you’ve been raised on nothing but meat? Get creative! I knew that not every recipe in my entree pile contained meat, and sure enough as I pored through the ingredients of several untested recipe clippings, I found several that were completely meat-free….
Sprucing up the midweek meal with fancy Turkey Roulades
The hunt continues to find a fantastic entree recipe that hits on all of the sense markers…sight, smell and taste. This week’s journey takes us on another trip to roll up poultry with a scintillating center. Turkey roulades…aside from roasting the holiday bird or cooking up a turkey breast, I know I’ve never worked with…
Curious what a Thermomix can do? Read on…
So this weekend we went to a friend’s house where a few of us safely gathered and experienced Thermomix cooking firsthand. We each were given a recipe to concoct using these new-Age simmering, chopping, step-by-step creating culinary machines. Someone had a drink recipe (really?), someone else had a soup recipe, someone had a side recipe,…
Throw a log on the fire and these Stuffed Chicken Pinwheels in the oven!
Still too chilly for me to get excited about walking the dog several times a day, and I’m happy that she’s content just sleeping in her bed for now (with sweater still on.) I’ve got a fire in the fireplace. and I’m watching the twigs do a little shake of their branches outside. The one…
Still chilly…so Best-ever Beef Stew to the rescue!
Let’s face it…I’ve become a real wuss. I’ve become accustomed to mild winters. A string of cold days, no matter how sunny it is out there leaves me with chills. I’m digging for my turtlenecks and throwing on my northern thermies. For the past few years I have cut way, way back on eating beef,…
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