Dinner

Stephanie’s Slow Cooked Mint Glazed Lamb Recipe

April 14, 2012

I have Stephanie from A Year of Slow Cooking to thank for this delicious Slow Cooked Mint Glazed Lamb recipe. She brought smiles all around our Easter dinner table and turned me into a cooking leg of lamb success story (finally). I didn’t grow up eating lamb and consequently never really learned how to cook it. [...]

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Green Beans with Ground Pork – Harumi Kurihara – #42 Gourmet’s 50 Women Game Changers in Food

April 6, 2012

Green beans and ground pork stir fried with garlic, ginger, chili, and soy sauce served over white rice. This simple and delicious recipe is adapted from Everyday Harumi, by Harumi Kurihara – #42 on Gourmet’s List of 50 Women Game Changers in Food. I recently joined an interesting group of food bloggers, led my Mary of [...]

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Easy Healthy & Delicious Shrimp Risotto Recipe

February 5, 2012

Creamy arborio rice loaded with shrimp, spinach, goat cheese, Parmesan, and peas – this recipe is a winner. Everyone loved it when I served it for for dinner last night. It’s a combination of two recipes – the grand prize winning recipe for hearty shrimp risotto in this month’s (February/March 2012) issue of Healthy Cooking and Ina [...]

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Simple Healthy Oven Pot Roast with Vegetables and Horseradish Sauce

October 27, 2011

Simple and Healthy Oven Pot Roast with Vegetables and Horseradish Sauce

It’s finally beginning to feel just a little bit fall like here in Phoenix. Thank goodness. So I decided to turn the oven on to make a simple oven pot roast with vegetables and horseradish sauce. I live with a guy who absolutely adores meat and potatoes – especially braised meats like pot roast. He [...]

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Skinny Slow Cooker Italian Style Pot Roast

October 21, 2011

Skinny Slow Cookier Italian Style Pot Roast

I’m a big fan of classic comfort food. It’s may favorite kind of food. This delicious slow cooker Italian pot roast is a great example. It gets its wonderful Italian flavor from simmering for hours in red wine and tomato sauce until it’s fork tender. I love this luscious pot roast served over slimmed down [...]

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Slim & Saucy Healthy Chicken Marsala Recipe

October 17, 2011

Are you looking for a healthy version of chicken marsala that’s low in fat and high in flavor? If you like chicken marsala, I think you’re going to love this slimmed down version. It’s simple, healthy and delicious! (But don’t tell anyone it’s better for them. Let it be your little secret and no one [...]

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Easy Healthy Old Fashioned Chicken and Dumplings Recipes

June 19, 2011

Here are two easy healthy recipes for old-fashioned chicken and dumplings – one cooked on the stove top and one made in the slow cooker that is finished on the stove. If you love the idea of making chicken and dumplings from scratch but don’t have the time to cook the chicken and then let [...]

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Quick and Easy Italian Sausage and Peppers Recipes

June 15, 2011

Sausage and peppers is an Italian-American classic. It’s a quick easy dinner recipe that’s also great when you need to feed a crowd. You could always count on a big pan or crock-pot filled with sausage and peppers being part of the lineup at parties, buffets and holiday gatherings when I was growing up. I’ve [...]

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Easy Dinner Recipe: Sausage, Peppers, Onions and Potatoes in the Oven

June 15, 2011

Here’s a great easy dinner recipe, especially if you are looking for tasty sausage recipes for dinner – sausage, peppers, onions and potatoes in the oven – along with an equally delicious variation that adds pieces of chicken and crushed tomatoes to the mix. Both versions are personal favorites of mine. Mom use to make [...]

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Easy Slow Cooker Jambalaya Recipes

June 14, 2011

Are you looking for easy slow cooker jambalaya recipes? I’ve got two great jambalaya recipes one for chicken jambalaya and the other for shrimp jambalaya that both cook in your crock-pot. You may be wondering what is jambalaya exactly? Well, jambalaya is a classic creole rice dish that was originally made with ham. (Jamon is [...]

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Roasted Shrimp and Broccoli Recipe

June 12, 2011

This roasted shrimp and broccoli recipe is perfect for anyone on the lookout for easy shrimp recipes and/or healthy shrimp recipes to make for easy dinners. There are lots of shrimp broccoli recipes out there that involve stir-frying. But, I’m not a fan. I much prefer dinners that bake in the oven. They’re easier, less [...]

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Favorite Shrimp Soup Recipes – Spicy Crab & Shrimp Soup – Sausage & Shrimp Gumbo

June 11, 2011

Here’s two of my favorite shrimp soup recipes – A spicy crab and shrimp soup that I first made in the early 1990s and a great sausage and shrimp gumbo soup. If you’re looking for easy shrimp recipes for dinner, these two soups are hard to beat. I love hearty soups for lunch, and dinner/supper (whichever you [...]