Butter-Braised Tomato Soup
As our farmer’s markets have closed, this will not do you any good this year as you must have very ripe tomatoes. This recipe comes from the Milk Street Magazine. Milk Street is the name of the street where Chef Christopher Kimbell’s office/cooking school is located. He came to my attention on a zoom call…
Pasta Sauce
The title tells it all. It really does take 15 minutes and the sauce is better than anything on the grocer shelves. I found this recipe on Epicurious and it is by Anna Stockwell. I looked her up and she has a very impressive cooking resume. It says it makes 4-6 servings. Ingredients:…
Lemon Icebox Pie
I rarely make desserts, but couldn’t pass this up as it looked too easy too be good. Well, it is possibly the best dessert I’ve ever tasted and I guarantee you your guests will be impressed. I found this recipe on the daily New York Times cooking app. Perfect for summertime as there is no…
Tuscan White Bean Soup
We are on to soup. Christmas is sneaking up on me this year and I’m of course freaking out. Jim showered the countryside and came home with dried Navy beans, not cannellini beans. I gave up and made the soup anyway. Then I ordered the cannellini beans from Amazon. I swear I would have been…
Pork Tenderloin with Acorn Squash
Sunday I actually made a nice meal from Ina Garten’s cookbook called Go-to Dinners. My timing stunk, but squash is very forgiving. The timing in the pork is right on. I like my pork to come out of the oven at 130/135 degrees F and then tent to 140 degrees F. The rosemary rub was…
Easy Dinner
Here is another of my made up quick dinner recipes. it is based on Chinese egg drop soup. I used my homemade broth to cook the corkscrew shaped noodles. After they were cooked I added 6 eggs that I had whisked. Add them in a long stream and they cook as they hit the hot…
Catfish, Coleslaw & Rice-a-Roni
What have I been doing? Well, I made my yearly fruitcake for my brother and I. It is my mothers recipe and we love it. I also made Christmas pickles. My sister-in-law loves pickles. Thursday after PT we went to our favorite Japanese restaurant. Saturday we celebrated a friends birthday at Riverhouse. Definitely the best…
Ravioli en Brodo
I love making soup in the winter. The night I made this, it was really cold here. It is from Ina Garten’s new book called Go-To Dinners. I thought it would be assembled meals, but it is in the usual cookbook categories. I would change out the ravioli for tortellini. It was awkward to integrate…
Three Sisters Soup
This soup was absolutely delicious. It came out of a brochure from the American Heart Association. The strange name was not explained but I am sure there is an association between beans, corn, and pumpkin of which I am unaware. All the references to low- sodium, no-salt are theirs. I was using my homemade broth…
Chicken Breasts
I did not take a picture tonight as my meal did not come from a cookbook. I made it up and it was delicious. Surprise! Sides were a simple salad and mushroom ravioli from Trader Joe’s. Jim had bought 2 large chicken breasts. I do not like white meat. I was busy all day, but…