Chicken and prune roll
I’ve had this little recipe bookmarked for a while from Belinda Jefferey’s book, Chicken Perfection. (You can also find the full recipe here via Google Books.) It’s sort of a take on a meat pie, without any fussing with pie plates. It’s pretty basic, onions, chicken, some spices and lots of prunes all rolled up [...]
Economic Stimulus Porkage
As we were grocery shopping last week, the boy passed by a cooler full of pork shoulder and swiftly put the cart into park. He goggled at the price of these huge pieces of meat – $5?!? For real? He practically made puppy dog eyes to put one of them into our shopping cart.
Him: I [...]
Chicken leek and feta phyllo pie
I had half a package of phyllo pastry left from Sunday’s lentil phyllo pie, so I whipped up this easy pie from Dinner Survival. I made the filling last night after the baby had gone to bed and assembled it today for lunch. I am loving working with phyllo – it’s so much faster than [...]
Chicken à la King
This recipe is a keeper and it comes straight from my Mom (a retired Home-Ec teacher) so you know that it’s fast and good. If you can teach a fourteen year old to make it, then you know it’s pretty much a foolproof recipe. I remember growing up and her students would come up to [...]
Secret ingredient curry
Our effort to be more efficient with our time in the new year was due in part to watching Fixing Dinner on weekday mornings. I was so inspired by Sandi Richard’s meal planning, that I went out and bought two of her cookbooks: Dinner Survival and The Family Dinner Fix. At first glance, the recipes [...]
Vanilla Roasted Pork Loin
This photo doesn’t do the recipe justice. It smelled so good that I just couldn’t be bothered setting up a proper shot – I just needed to gobble it up as soon as it hit the plate. This recipe for vanilla roasted pork loin came from the Abel & Cole, Easy Seasonal Organic cookbook. (Sidenote: [...]
Navy bean and bacon salad
About three o’clock this afternoon, the bacon alarm went off. I knew I wanted some sort of salad with bacon. Enter Google. I typed in some keywords: bacon, salad and beans. Most of the results featured green beans… blah! I wanted real beans… the kind that don’t taste like freshly mowed grass. (I am not [...]
Personal pizza
Since I bought a bread machine in the fall, our pizza consumption has skyrocketed. I admit, I used to used pizza dough mix – you know, just add water and wait 15 minutes and voila – dough! Those days are over. (While not very ‘cheffy’, those pizzas always tasted good to me.) [...]
Pork tenderloin toss
Another one of my staple recipes is a pork tenderloin toss. I usually make it with spinach, but this week we had a large bunch of swiss chard in our veggie box, so I thought it might be a nice change.
Swiss chard is another super green with a crazy amount of good stuff packed into [...]