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One Pan Spiced Pork Chops with Bacon

September 29, 2017 By Laura Leave a Comment

One Pan Spiced Pork Chops with Bacon

One Pan Spiced Pork Chops with Bacon is an easy, healthy and delicious way to celebrate seasonal cooking.  We had all that cold weather, I started craving soups and stews and then wham! Awful heat wave. It is never hot enough to swim over my birthday at the end of September but this year it… 

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Filed Under: bacon, casseroles, corn, Latin, peaches, pork, southwestern, zucchini Tagged With: bacon, casserole, corn, Latin, Latin American, one pan, one pot, onions, peaches, peppers, pork, pork chops, seasonal, southwestern, zucchini

Middle Eastern Salata

July 31, 2017 By Laura Leave a Comment

Middle Eastern Salata

This Middle Eastern Salata is a celebration of summer’s bounty as well as a gift that keeps on giving as the leftovers can be tossed with pasta to make an amazing pasta salad. Sammy and I made this Middle Eastern Salata together; salads like this are good practice for bigger kids working on knife skills…. 

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Filed Under: Arugula, balsamic, cucumbers, Middle Eastern dishes, olives, pasta, Salad Dressing, salads, tomatoes, vegetarian Tagged With: arugula, cucumbers, feta, Middle Eastern, pasta salad, peppers, salad, salads, salata, tomatoes, vegetarian

Spiralized Calabacitas with Salsa Negra Glazed Chicken

September 12, 2015 By Laura 10 Comments

Grilled Chicken glazed with Salsa Negra on top of spiralized calabacitas--a flavorful, Mexican-inspired dinner that makes the most of your zucchini harvest!

Spiralized Calabacitas with Salsa Negra Glazed Chicken is a flavorful, Mexican-inspired dinner that makes the most of your zucchini harvest! It can easily be made vegetarian by using grilled tofu. My friend Kirsten, whose delicious Farm Fresh Feasts is super seasonal, can blog about things a year after making them (to make sure the reader gets… 

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Filed Under: chicken, cream cheese, easily made vegetarian, Mexican dishes, salsas, Spiralized, tomatoes, zucchini Tagged With: calabacitas, cheese, chicken, peppers, salsa negra, side dish, spiralized, spiralizer, tomatoes, vegetarian, zucchini

Steak Salad with Romesco Dressing

October 12, 2014 By Laura 3 Comments

Marinated steak is grilled to perfection and served over greens with roasted peppers and onions. A tangy Romesco dressing ties it all together. Affiliate links were used in this post to link to items I am discussing. I would not normally post about recipes from the same cookbook 2 posts in a row, but this cookbook… 

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Filed Under: almonds, beef, oranges, Salad Dressing, salads, sauces, Spanish cuisine, steak Tagged With: almonds, beef, flank, healthy, Mediterranean, onions, orange, peppers, piquillo, Romesco, salad, sirloin, smoked paprika, Spanish, steak, tenderloin

Inverted Shepherd’s Pie: Ground Beef with Dijon Mustard and Veggies on Smashed Potatoes: Using Community Cookbooks

September 9, 2014 By Laura 2 Comments

Ground Beef flavored with Dijon Mustard and tomatoes and Veggies on Smashed Potatoes

Inverted Shepherd’s Pie is a great option for when you don’t want to turn on the oven but are craving some comfort food!  I owe you a refried beans post, but I am waiting on the publisher to send me (as is their preference) the recipe. So I am sliding this Inverted Shepherd’s Pie in instead.

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Filed Under: beef, carrots, Community Cookbooks, cookbooks, ground beef, potatoes, reviews, tomatoes Tagged With: beef, community cookbooks, Dijon mustard, ground beef, mashed potatoes, mustard, onions, peppers, potatoes, shepherd's pie, smashed potatoes, tomatoes

Noodles and Veggies Stir Fried in an Asian Peanut Butter Sauce

August 4, 2014 By Laura 2 Comments

Noodles and Vegetables Stir Fried with a Asian Inspired Peanut Butter Sauce

Proof that the brain is a muscle like any other: since my surgery, i.e., since all these weeks of not really using my brain and just reading guilty pleasure regency romances (yes I admit it!), I have writer’s block. Maybe not big time true writer’s block, the way some long suffering novelist might get, but… 

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Filed Under: chicken, easily made vegetarian, pasta, stir fry, zucchini Tagged With: asian, bell peppers, chicken, eggplant, noodles, pasta, peanut butter, peppers, stir fry, weeknight, zucchini

Mexican Pasta Bake with Ground Beef and Sour Cream: Using Community Cookbooks

May 29, 2014 By Laura 5 Comments

Mexican Pasta Bake with High Fiber Noodles, Cottage Cheese, Sour Cream and Ground Meat--simple and delicious!!!

Mexican Pasta Bake with Ground Beef and Sour Cream is the best of American comfort food livened up with healthy vegetables and Mexican herbs and spices. This next installment in my series using community cookbooks comes from the most wonderfully named little book: “…On The Border…By The Sea…” Cookbook Contributed by the Women of The… 

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Stir Fried Beef with Peppers, Mushrooms, Eggplant and Nam Prik Pao; Review of Everyday Thai Cooking

October 30, 2013 By Laura 4 Comments

Thai Beef and Mushroom Stir Fry Flavored with Nam Prik Pao and Basil

I don’t know why I thought we would have a mild, pleasant fall. After all, it was one of the coldest, wettest summers ever, so why should I expect the sun and warmth of late September to last? And of course it did not, the temperatures dropping all of a sudden to below freezing all… 

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Filed Under: beef, cookbooks, mushrooms, reviews, stir fry, Thai dishes Tagged With: beef, chili jam, chili paste, crimini, eggplant, mushrooms, nam prik pao, peppers, round steak, shitake, sirloin, stir fry, Thai

Tortilla Casserole with Braised Beef in Beer and Salsa Verde

March 10, 2013 By Laura 7 Comments

Tortilla Casserole with Beef Braised in Beer and Salsa Verde

Tortilla Casserole with Braised Beef in Beer and Salsa Verde tastes like it takes a lot more work than it does. Simple to make, especially if you have access to good salsa verde, it is a reliably delicious one pot meal. I have made it many times over the last fifteen (!) years, enough so… 

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Hi! I’m Laura and I am a recovering history major who has re-channeled all of my passion for learning about the history of different countries to learning about their food culture. That doesn’t mean every dish on here is strictly authentic, but it does mean that even my adaptations are not undertaken lightly. My goal is to show you–by doing–that these dishes are possible in your kitchen. Including desserts because I have quite the sweet tooth! Read More…

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