When you can open an eight hundred and seventy-seven page hard bound cookbook automatically to the page that holds the recipe for your favorite meat loaf, it’s a good bet you’ve been to that page many, many times before. This is the case with my copy of James Beard’s American Cookery, and his recipe for…
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Boeuf Bourguignon (Beef Stew With Red Wine)
This hearty beef stew, or Boeuf Bourguignon as the French call it, is a meal you’ll remember whether you’re dining in a cozy French bistro or in the warmth of your own home. The recipe is from Ina Garten’s Barefoot In Paris Cookbook. All of the dishes she writes about in this book are true…
Chili
With the weather turning chilly, one’s thoughts naturally turn to Chili! There are endless varieties of this warming comfort food… with ground beef or cubed beef, or no beef at all, with or without tomatoes, with or without beans, with beer or without, and the choice of spices too many to mention. I know there…
Roasted Vegetable Lasagne
If you look the word adapt up in the dictionary you will find that it means to make suitable to requirements or conditions, adjust or modify fittingly. This recipe for Roasted Vegetable Lasagne is a result of my efforts to create a lasagne which would appeal to my husband’s tastes. I may have mentioned before…
Sheila’s Roasted Potato Leek Soup
It’s amazing to me as one season ends and the next begins how I’m always ready for the change. As eager as I am in the spring to get gardening again after a long winter I’m just as anxious in the fall to put the garden to bed for another season. As the annuals and…
Broiled Salmon With Sweet Pea, Sun-Dried Tomato, and Lemon Spaghetti
With our sons back on the west coast now until Thanksgiving I decided my husband and I were due a lighter, healthier dinner. I love making my sons’ favorite foods, but somehow salmon never turns up on their list! Being that I had some wild salmon fillets in the freezer, Broiled Salmon with Sweet Pea,…
GRILLED BABY BACK RIBS WITH SWEET-SOUR BBQ SAUCE As promised in a previous post here’s the photo of the baby back ribs with my Sweet-Sour BBQ Sauce. As I mentioned in the post of the sauce it goes especially well on chicken or ribs prepared on the grill. Baby back ribs have been my ribs…
A Greek Dinner
My younger son and his girlfriend are visiting this week from San Francisco. He requested a Greek meal with some of his favorite dishes for dinner last night. Happy to oblige I came up with the following menu. Greek Salad dressed with an olive oil, red wine vinegar and oregano vinaigrette Grilled Pita Bread brushed…
SIMPLE ROAST CHICKEN For dinner tonight I made a simple roast chicken. Roasting a chicken is not as simple as it appears. The trick is achieving a golden crispy exterior and a thoroughly cooked interior with both white and dark meat retaining their juices. At one time or another we’ve all begun carving the bird,…
Chicken Teriyaki
My son is visiting from LA this week and I’m in all my glory cooking for him. Any and all requests are fulfilled. He always jokes that I may not have a particular store bought prepared food in the house, but I will always have the ingredients to make it! Or it’s a good bet…