main dish recipes

Pan Seared Wild Salmon & Spring Pea Purée

24 April 2009
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Every spring I eagerly wait in anticipation first for halibut season, then for the wild salmon. I cannot bring myself to purchase the inferior farmed salmon. I would rather have just a tiny bit of the good stuff than a platter or the other. Once you have tasted the wild you will know why. It [...]

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ultimate one pot meal

5 April 2009
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This is the best fast weeknight dinner full of nutritional variety. It can be whipped up in less than a half hour easy. Another plus, the ingredients are easy to have in your pantry. Sausage or other meat in the freezer or leftover meat from a meal earlier in the week, most everything else should [...]

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Lamb Chops ~ winter style grill

12 March 2009

Do you fire up the outdoor grill in the winter? How about when it is 5 below zero? I don’t. But I still made juicy, flavorful lamb chops on the stove top with a finish in the oven. It is actually quite quick and easy. Have your butcher french the chops, cut the excess away [...]

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pasta with peas: take II

22 February 2009

Another entry in our month full of kid friendly meals, it’s not that my kids won’t eat other food, but why bother? With the man of the house globetrotting I am just not into spending time and effort on meals for the kids. So here you have it, another 15 minute meal, Pasta with peas [...]

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Mighty Tasty Buffalo Tacos

19 February 2009

Another kid friendly meal for the month, and this one is a real plate licker. In case you haven’t heard, dad is gone for the month, that leaves mom looking for simple dinners that don’t have anyone turning up their noses. While dad is living the high life in Dubai and Bier trinken und feiern [...]

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Biltong, A Lekker Adventure

19 January 2009

Voortrekkers we are not, we do not even have a covered wagon for goodness sake, but we are trekking ahead even without the biltong. We are no different from all the South African expats, we are longing for a taste of the memory. That is why the decision that an undertaking in the art of [...]

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Cioppino

12 January 2009
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Cioppino is an Italian seafood stew that originated near San Francisco, as legend has it. It is a delicious tomato wine broth with any variety of fish and shellfish available. I find that it makes a hearty winter meal and is great as a party dish. This picture does not do it justice. This is [...]

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Chilaquiles [chee-lah-KEE-lehs] mmm

8 January 2009

Chilaquiles is a Mexican dish created out of the necessity to use up stale tortillas and left over meats and vegetables. I think that it is the ultimate one dish meal for leftovers that I know of. It goes over well at our house. I have made a few different varieties of chilaquiles before I [...]

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whole wheat pasta with peas, feta and bacon

4 December 2008

This is one of the most requested meals in my house. This is what they beg for. Last night I made it with whole-wheat pasta, but you can use anything. I used chiocciole shaped pasta, it means snail in Italian, but now that I see it in pictures it looks like little slugs to me. [...]

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Petite Turkey with Quick Cranberry Compote

24 November 2008

Grubby little fingers are stealing the food as I try to take a picture. Greedy little buggers! Diestel Family Turkey Ranch raises a bird they call a petite turkey. This is the turkey I made for Sunday dinner. It was only 6 1/2 pounds, the size of a large chicken. We ate it like a [...]

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Braised Lamb Shanks

18 November 2008

Looks like my blog is back up and running Let me know what you think of the new look. This is a meal that I made a while back. Give it a try and tell me what you think. One afternoon I was feeling like cooking something earthy. It was a stormy day and something [...]

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