Category: Dinner
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Mustard Lemon Cauliflower
This is a decent weekday recipe, based on the time spent, although you don’t get to just set it in the oven and forget it until it’s done. I cut the original amount of butter with olive oil so you can pretend it’s healthier. The initial recipe is based on one from the November 2006…
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Sunday Squash Roast – Stocking Up for the Apocalypse
The butternut squash planted late last spring is finally yielding ripened fruit. Due to the surprisingly longer processing time, i try to remember to only to roast butternut on a weekend, otherwise i end up eating around 10pm. With a solid sized squash like the one pictured, there’s always extra leftovers that can be frozen…
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Celery Chicken Saute
What to do when your homegrown celery threatens to grow into a small, unchewable forest? Chop it all down, make celery chicken, (and take the rest to work). This is a combination I started around 2006 on one of those days when there wasn’t much left in the fridge and I thought, “what goes good…
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Sunday Recipe: Chicken Pot Pie
Update note from the author: as you shop for Thanksgiving, grab some puff pastry for this delicious recipe for your leftover turkey! Make sure to read to the end for the full wait time and pro-tips on cooling steps. As a child growing up in the Midwest with home-cooked Chinese food for dinner, microwave dinners…
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Panzanella: no-cook recipe #3 for the summer heat
So I was looking for a swift way to use all the tomato loot from my garden in the warm summer days, while still getting the individual flavors of them.. Cribbed and modified from Ina Garten’s Panzanella recipe from Food network. Ingredients 3 tablespoons good olive oil 1 small French bread or boule, cut into…
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Heat Wave, Part II:
Gazpacho!Mark Bitterman‘s Gazpacho recipe and some tips from my friend Katherine got me to try making gazpacho about a year ago, and tonight’s continued hot humid weather in the Northwest called for a revisit of cooking without heating elements. Unfortunately, I failed at that last bit, since I like my onions and garlic sautéed instead…
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Grilled Zucchini with Garlic and Lemon Butter Baste
Epicurious’ recipe 8 servings ingredients 1 gigantor zucchini, trimmed, sliced lengthwise 1/4 cup butter 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice 1/2 teaspoon lemon-pepper seasoning 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano 1/8 teaspoon curry powder (skipped, didn’t have it) 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese (optional) steps 0. Preheat barbecue (medium heat). 1. Score cut side…
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Cauliflower & Sausage Casserole
The Kitchn’s Cauliflower Sausage Casserole caught my eye since it did not for once call for loads of cheese, per your traditional Midwestern casserole (er, ‘hot dish’) style. While loads of cheese is delicious, it’s arguably not the healthiest for you, and definitely not the best for lactose-intolerant yours truly. The Kitchn’s version used chicken…
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Jicama, 2 Ways
Salad vs. Summer RollFirst up, the recipe that uses more jicama: (1) Citrus-Spiked Jicama and Carrot Slaw Originally from Cooking Light, (David Bonom July 2007) via Yummly search via myrecipes.com. The original recipe calls for much larger amounts, I scaled it down and did some relatively arbitrary proportions for convenience to make one lunch-salad size and one tiny…
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Paleo Meatballs
On request of my ‘roommate,’ I tried this recipe from Easy Peasy, for paleo meatballs. It’s almost identical to the ones I usually make (which, by the way, get rave reviews by same roommate -beef, not turkey per the URL), except without breadcrumbs, a few more spices (oregano, basil), and added spinach. Never parsley. Boo…