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My Cheatin’ Heart – Will Tell on Me – When It Comes to Cooking I Sometimes Look for Shortcuts – Chicken Alfredo – This Dish Takes a Long Time if I Prepare a Marinade of My Own and Alfredo Sauce from Scratch – BUT – La la la…Kraft and Bertolli Did It for Me –
SO, how did I cheat? One jar of Kraft Italian Dressing and one jar of Bertolli’s Alfredo Sauce. My cheatin’ heart has told on me! (Remember that old country song by Patsy Cline, Your Cheatin’ Heart Will Tell on You…yes…’tis true, … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking Techniques and Shortcuts, Food, Gluten-free
Tagged Artists of another Age, Bertolli Alfredo Sauce, Celery, Chicken Alfredo, Green Pepper, Kraft Italian Dressing, Old Songs, onion, Pasta, Patsy Cline, Red Pepper, roast vegetables, Shortcut, Your Cheatin' Heart, Zucchini slices
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Roasted Vegetables – Served with Eggs Over Easy – Orange Slices – Tomato Wedges – and Grapes – Quick Lunch –
Holidays over, I’m looking for quick lunches with fewer calories. Potatoes and carrots are starchy, so this dish may not qualify as really low in calories, but it was delicious. Much partying this season has me in the habit of eating whatever … Continue reading
Asian Fried Rice – My Version – Flavored with S&B Japanese Traditional Seasoning – Compliments of My Japanese Friend – This Spice Blend Made My Fried Rice Special –
Asian fried rice is a fabulous dish and is simple to prepare. I have my own recipe that contains the same basic ingredients each time. There is one difference today, the addition of a spice mixture, S&B Nanami Togarashi, that my Japanese friend … Continue reading
Pot Roast for Two – I Proved It – It Can Be Done – All These Months Steve Wanted Whatever I Cooked – Out of the Blue He Wanted Pot Roast –
Steve and I buy most of our meat at Costco, and this day we were shopping and were out of steak. Instead of more steak, Steve wanted whatever I needed to make pot roast. Yes, pot roast. I told him … Continue reading
Stuffing for Two – As Thanksgiving Day Draws Near – Traditional Turkey and Stuffing Comes to Mind – We Will Go Out with Friends to a Restaurant – But at Home Today Traditional Stuffing Was on the Menu –
Stuffing would usually be scooped into the cavity of a turnkey or into a baking dish for Thanksgiving Day, but today I baked it in these two mini-casserole dishes instead. We enjoyed a meal with stuffing on the side. This is an easy dish … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking Techniques and Shortcuts, Food, Gluten-free, Memoir
Tagged Butter, Celery, chicken stock, Egg, garlic, Gluten-Free, Gluten-free bread, onion, pepper, rosemary, sage, salt, Stuffing, Thanksgiving Day, thyme, Udi's Gluten-free Bread
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Making Black Bean Soup Today – But FIRST – Making My Own Vegetable Broth for Flavor and Nutrients –
This morning I thought of my grandmother’s homemade beef vegetable soup. My children and I were guests at her table many times. She often served us her delicious soup. She used her pressure cooker to make it and could produce the soup … Continue reading
Wild Salmon Better than Farm Raised Salmon – Probably True – But Wild Salmon Tastes Too Wild for Me – How to Take the Wild Taste out of Wild Salmon – For Me It Had to be Done – Recipe Developing Success – Salmon Flavor from Wild to Mild –
This is my first attempt at developing a recipe that lessens the strong taste of wild salmon, which I, personally, do not like. The last time we bought salmon we chose wild salmon rather than farm-raised, because I’d read it was … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Cooking Techniques and Shortcuts, Food, Gluten-free
Tagged Alfredo sauce, Butter, Carol Ann Hoel, Casserole, Celery, Gluten-Free Biscuit, onion, Recipe Development, Reduce Strong Taste, Reduce Wild Flavor, Ricotta Cheese, Salmon Patties, Wild Salmon, Wild Salmon Casserole, Wild Taste
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Chef John’s Chilled Sugar Snap Pea Soup – Easy – Fast – Delicious – My Second Batch of this Excellent Chilled Soup – It’s Good Hot too – I Tasted it before I Chilled It – Recipe Available at Allrecipes –
Today I prepared my second batch of Chef John’s Chilled Sugar Snap Pea Soup from a recipe I found on Allrecipes.com (both links take you to the same place). In addition to the list of ingredients and instructions, a video is available. Chef John will … Continue reading
Steve Wanted Sausage – I Wanted Soup – Hurrah for Sausage Soup – Made from Italian Sausages – Lots of Veggies – Cream Tops it Off at the End –
Italian Sausage and Vegetable Soup: Ingredients: Chopped Onion Chopped Celery Chopped Carrot Chopped Mushrooms Chopped Potato Chopped Cabbage Chopped Red Bell Pepper Chicken Stock or Broth Spices – Optional – a little of each – dried basil, oregano, rosemary, thyme, … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking Techniques and Shortcuts, Food
Tagged Cabbage, Carol Ann Hoel, carrot, Celery, Chicken Broth, chicken stock, cream, Food, Italian Sausage, Mushrooms, onion, Potato, red bell pepper, Sausage Soup Recipe, Spices
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Chopping Onion the Way My Mother Taught Me – Easy – But Best with Small to Medium Onion –
Chopping onion can be effectively accomplished in several ways. I peel the onion first, at least the part of it I want to use. If the onion is large, and I only want a small amount of chopped onion, I’ll simply cut a … Continue reading
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Tagged Attractive chopped onion, Carol Ann Hoel, Chop Onion, Chopped onion, Chopping Onion, Cooking, Cooking Techniques, Food processor, How to Chop Onion, Large Onion, Medium Onion, onion, Small Onion, Technique to chop onion, Uniformly square pieces
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Potato Soup for Two – Simple – Easy – Quick – Delicious – Start to Finish – Forty-five Minutes –
Turn a potato into potato soup in forty-five minutes: 1) Chop a small onion, a few stalks of celery, and one peeled potato. 2) Saute the onion and celery in a combination of butter and olive oil. 3) Add the cut-up potato … Continue reading
Remodeling Day for Steve – Not Grocery Shopping Day for His Wife – Steve Was So Sweet to Marry Me – I’ll Gladly Raid the Refrigerator to Find SOMETHING to Cook –
Okay. I can do this. Ordinarily on the day I run out of produce, eggs, or anything that would hamper my cooking, Steve takes me shopping, but today I know his heart is in remodeling. I hear his saw buzzing as … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking Techniques and Shortcuts, Food
Tagged Acidic, Alkaline, carrot, Catfish, Cooking, Fruits, garlic, Ginger, nutrition, onion, Parsley, red bell pepper, remodeling, Rice Pilaf, Vegetables
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Meatloaf – FUN – Never the Same Twice – Be Creative – Be Bold – Make Your Mark on a Meatloaf Recipe –
Meatloaf recipes are basically the same except as we revise them to suit our needs or whims. What’s in your refrigerator? What’s on your pantry shelf? If not an ingredient your recipe calls for, you might find something that will work as well or better. … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking Techniques and Shortcuts, Food
Tagged basil, Buttermilk, Carol Ann Hoel, Cuisinart food processor, ingredients, Meatloaf, Meatloaf recipes, onion, oregano, Parsley, refrigerator, sage, Sirloin patties, thyme, tomato sauce, What's in your refrigerator, What's on your pantry shelf
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Chicken Thighs w/Carrots, Onion, Kale (Revised)
My virus scan begins at 12:00 noon each day, a curse I have tried to change without success. When it starts, it makes everything else move so slowly that continuing on my blog is useless. This was the perfect time … Continue reading
Posted in Food
Tagged carrots, Chicken, Chicken Thigh, garlic, kale, one-skillet, onion, oyster sauce, Potato, Recipe
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Meatloaf with Fresh Sage and Oregano
Fresh herbs from my brother’s garden (right) inspire me to cook. I snap photos as I begin to prepare meatloaf with fresh sage and oregano. Here is a list of ingredients: 2 lb. ground beef 1/2 cup cooked brown rice (or white) … Continue reading
Posted in Thought
Tagged brown rice, Cooking, eggs, fresh herbs, garlic, ground beef, herb garden, hot sauce, Meatloaf, onion, oregano, Recipe, sage
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