Documenting a year of cooking experiences
While cooking something last weekend, Giada and Jade cooking show came on and tonight we are recreating one of the dishes they made. Again, the theme for this week is simple. Took a break while working to butterfly and stuff the pork so that all we had to do at dinner time was cook the …
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Busy Tuesday finishing a report and trying to keep other work going so yet again a simple Midwestern dinner. Nothing special just clean, simple food. As is usual in our house, I get up early and try to not wake anyone up. So making a marinade had to be quiet, so I decided to do …
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Simple meal with a little help from Sunday prep while we were doing other things. Roasted the spaghetti squash on Sunday and was able to have dinner on the table in 15 minutes from start to finish. Sometimes you need a simple, healthy, easy meal on a Monday. For the spaghetti squash: 1 spaghetti squash, …
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With it snowing outside, I wanted to push what I could possibly make. I have always wanted to make soup dumplings so today was the day (actually I started it yesterday). And as a backup, some vegetable egg rolls just in case it fails miserably. Also, it gave me a chance to go to the …
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It was one of those Saturdays that everyone wanted fried chicken and French fries for dinner. Happy to oblige but they need to have there veggies too. Tried a new approach to the chicken tenders and they turned out pretty good. We are trying to freeze the other half of the chicken and fries to …
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Simple but hearty Friday night dinner. We had a lot of potatoes this week and even though I wanted to try to have a successful potatoes au gratin, sweet potatoes were what we needed to eat. Just a nice Friday evening cook that was not stressful nor creative. Good ol’ Midwestern comfort food. To start …
I had to go to the market today to get ingredients for dinner. My wife said she wanted clam chowder and she’s allergic to cow milk so Manhattan it is. I made sure I had a bag of clams, all the vegetables that I needed, some clam juice, and tomatoes. One thing I forgot, she …
Simple dinner just a little sauteed chicken with a side. For the chicken: 4 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs glug of olive oil few sprigs of thyme salt Saute the chicken in olive oil, turning occasionally until done. Meanwhile, bring 2 cups of water to boil and add salt and olive oil. Add 1 cup of …
I had originally planned on making blini with smoked salmon and veggies and dip. After a day of finishing up a couple writing projects, I needed a bit more substance but still healthy. My wife suggested quiche and salad and I picked up the ingredients on the way home. For the quiche: 2 frozen pie …
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This is one of those meals that I could only make because of the short ribs we made last night. Although we ate all the meat and peas and most of the potatoes, there was still a ton of sauce that had 3 hours of flavor worked into it. How about turning it into a …
