Stuffed Cabbage
I have mentioned on more than one occasion that Victor is not a fan of cooked cabbage, so imagine my surprise when he told me he was making me Stuffed Cabbage for dinner tonight! He said it was his...
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It’s supposed to start snowing in a few hours. Oh joy. Oh rapture. This really has been the winter that keeps on giving. It feels like January outside. I can smell the approaching snow. I’m totally...
View ArticleTortellini and Broccoli Rabe
I headed down to my favorite almost-local produce store – Gentile’s Market – yesterday, and came back with several bags of garden goodies. With lots of local produce, as well as national and...
View ArticleRavioli with Butternut Squash
A butternut squash is the gift that keeps on giving. You get a lot of bang for your buck with a butternut squash – and with only three of us in the house, one squash is more than one meal. I used...
View ArticleGetting Ready For Vacation
Chicken breasts grilled and then stuffed with spicy salsa, avocado, and covered with jalapeno jack cheese It’s time to get things cleaned up around here before we take off on Friday. I have a lot of...
View ArticleStuff
One of my more fun cooking styles is clean out the refrigerator. The dish is usually an amalgamation of pieces of this-and-that that are hanging around the ‘fridge. Things that are too small for an...
View ArticleTorta di Patate
When I described what I was thinking of making for dinner, tonight, Victor’s first comment was You’re going to be a force to be reckoned with when you’re retired. I think he was making reference to the...
View ArticleOrzo and an Egg
Tonight’s dinner is brought to you by the fact that I wanted something different. We have really been in a rut – and the only way to get out of a rut is to just say no. Or something. The rut-ending...
View ArticleChili con Carne
I bought a tri-tip roast on Friday with plans to grill it, today. I knew it wasn’t going to be the great summer-like weather we had Friday and Saturday, but – what the hell… we grill all winter long....
View ArticleChili Two Ways
I made a pot of chili the other day, thinking chili atop a baked potato was well within our dietary regime. I’ve been a chili lover since Day One. My mother said that the first solid food I ate as an...
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