SIMPLE EASY MEALS

ultimate one pot meal

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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 [...]

pasta with peas: take II

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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 [...]

Mighty Tasty Buffalo Tacos

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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 [...]

Chilaquiles [chee-lah-KEE-lehs] mmm

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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 [...]

whole wheat pasta with peas, feta and bacon

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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. [...]

Roasted Sweet Potato Fries with Rosemary

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Until I started cooking for myself sweet potatoes had always been something that was laden with a heavy caramelized sugar syrup. I do not necessarily mind them with all the added sweetness but I do like them a better served savory. We eat sweet potatoes often, and not just for Turkey Day. We eat them [...]

Speedy Spaghetti & Meatballs

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I know what you are thinking, meatballs are not speedy. They are something you might make if you were feeling very ambitious and had a lot of time on your hands. Well, not true. I made this dinner in a half hour. Yep, that makes it a 30 minute meal. I am sure that Ms. [...]

Goulash Soup

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Changing back to standard time is great in the morning, but the dark afternoons don’t please me. So time to break out the comfort food. My plan was to fill the house with the aroma of something cooking on the stove all day. Well my chuck roast did not want to defrost so I enlisted [...]

cheesy tuna potato casserole

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When Dad is out of town, Mom makes easy food. They love it. This is a take on the “sh*t on a shingle” of my childhood. I think that this is better and even easier to make. I used Alexia oven fries, but you could do it the hard way by making your own potato [...]

Oma’s mince stew (it’s NOT a stew)

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updated 29 Jan 09 Now I do have a photo. This was a dinner again this evening. As you can see I am not big on fussy food. This is about as rustic as you can get. A great mix of veggies, meat and potatoes. It is a great way to use up leftovers. Be [...]

brown rice salad with chicken and avos

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This is a really great dish that can be enjoyed warm, room temp, or even cold the next day. Now, I am a huge lover of fresh herbs. They add such a lively flavor to your food then you need much less salt. Lemon juice and zest also work well in most dishes, sweet or [...]

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