Warm Sausage, Potato and Roasted Vegetable Salad

I’ve had a request for more vegetarian recipes around here, but sorry, this is not one.  I will get to those, I promise…just not now.  This was a salad recipe I spied a few weeks ago that looked like a heaty, warm winter salad.  It was, and the mustardy vinaigrette was great with the potatoes [...]

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Turkey Shawarma

So, first it was chicken shawarma, and now it’s turkey shawarma.  But whatever the shawarma you pick, it’s all tasty.  This dish is
surprisingly quick to make- if you ignore the recommended 4-8 hour sitting time for the turkey, which I did when we decided to grill out last Friday.  I don’t think we lost anything [...]

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Chipotle Chicken Quesadillas

I’m sure everyone has that go-to meal that when you have no idea what to make for dinner, you can always fall
back on this dish.  For some people that means a meal that can be made from ingredients you always have on hand (for me the only thing I could make at any given time [...]

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Creamy Garlic Italian Dressing

Now, you would think I served this withe the Sicilian tuna steaks, and while that would be a great combination, I
didn’t.  Instead I made some pizza with friends one night and served a salad with this creamy, garlicky dressing on the side.  It’s one of those salad dressings that’s really worth making at home, because [...]

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Sicilian Tuna Steaks

I’ve got a few recipes backed up that I need to post, and the good news is that many of them are on the quick side.
First off is tuna steaks and a great money-saving discovery!  Actually, this is Greg’s discovery of frozen tuna steaks at Trader Joe’s that are very reasonably priced.  He bought a [...]

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Chicken Meatballs with Pepperonata

I’m back after a bit of a break last week…it was a busy week after vacation and I was out of town last weekend, so there wasn’t a lot of
post-worthy cooking going on.  Last night after track I made this recipe from Gourmet (changed a lot, though) that I had earmarked for a while and [...]

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Eggplant with Coconut Milk

This was my personal favorite recipe from the Vietnamese meal that I cooked this weekend, but you know I’m a sucker for eggplant.
The eggplant turned out perfectly tender in a rich coconut milk sauce that was almost like a curry, but much easier and faster to make.  If you don’t love eggplant, I think you [...]

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Vietnamese Rice Noodle Salad

This rice noodle salad is a great cold noodle salad perfect for summer.  The key is not to overcook the noodles, which can happen in an
instant.  If you follow the directions below they’ll turn out just fine.  This salad is great with chicken, and would be really good with this lemongrass beef recipe, or a [...]

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Carmelized Black Pepper Chicken

Yesterday Haley and I finally made a long-talked about trip to the Buford Highway Farmer’s Market, which is known for all their Asian produce.  I decided to make some Vietnamese food for dinner and looked up a few recipes before I went so I wouldn’t just buy random stuff that wouldn’t actually yield a final [...]

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Simplest Cole Slaw

Sarah went to Maine and Nova Scotia and all you got was this cole slaw recipe.  It’s true.  I ate four lobster rolls last week and didn’t do
any cooking, so I don’t have much new to share with you today.  Some of the lobster rolls I ate came with cole slaw and that inspired me [...]

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