Lately I’ve been experimenting with doubling my main dishes with plans to use them as leftovers. But I don’t just throw what’s leftover into the fridge and serve it one or two nights later. I freeze the leftovers then fancy them up a couple weeks later so that they seem like an entirely new dish.
For […]
Yum, yum! Loaded grilled cheese — cheddar, apple, and bacon — with a rich homemade tomato soup. You don’t need a real recipe for this dinner; just a few good ingredients and a little cooking know-how.
Make the soup. Saute chopped up onion and carrots in a bit of olive oil until soft, about 5 minutes. […]
Have you ever had salisbury steak? It’s ground beef formed into a steak shape, cooked, and served with beef gravy. The idea is to make a cheap steak substitute.
Before making this recipe, I hadn’t had salisbury steak in probably 20 years — but I remembered it as a favorite. Apparently my family agrees because they […]
I modified this from a recipe for Creamy Cooker Chicken from the Fix-it And Forget-it Cookbook. My mom gave me the recipe after she had good luck with it.
Now that it’s fall, I’d like to do slow cooker meals two or three times a week. It’s nice to get some prep and cleanup done in […]
Last week felt like the week from hell, as I finished up a big project and the kids’ after-school activities kicked into gear. When I get busy like that, I fall back on the easiest of the easy:
Tacos. I brown one pound of lean ground beef, use a premixed spice packet, and serve with flour […]
Remember when everyone was into low-carb diets? Dana Carpender had the best recipes during the Atkins era. This is adapted from her 15-Minute Low-Carb Recipes. She uses weird ingredients like guar gum to thicken the sauce… but you really don’t need to do that.
Slow Cooker Green Chili Chicken
4 servings
3 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (I […]
I developed this recipe last week in conversation with my pantry and my refrigerator. I had pasta, chopped walnuts, a bunch of yellow onions, and some crumbled blue cheese. It was delicious… and so incredibly rich. It might be better as a primi piatti than as a main dish. Maybe have an austere piece of […]
I made French Bread Pizza from Cook’s Country the other day. I was wondering why anyone would need a recipe for French Bread Pizza, but I tried anyway, and I learned a bunch of things that might help you if you want to make it without a recipe.
Use supermarket French bread, not artisan-style. The supermarket […]
What a beautiful, delicious, and easy meal. Healthy too. Big flakes of broiled salmon atop simmered lentils, all drizzled with mustard vinaigrette. I am not only going to buy the Great Food Fast cookbook, I think I will subscribe to Martha Stewart’s Everyday Food magazine, from which the recipes are drawn.
Salmon with Lentils and Mustard […]
My people love chicken with pan sauce or pork chops with pan sauce or steak with pan sauce or turkey cutlets with pan sauce. In short: they love pan sauce. But pan sauces have fallen out of favor, apparently too French and too gourmet for everyday cooking. So don’t mention the pan sauce! Just call […]