This vegetable tortellini soup was an easy to throw together dinner that was meat-free – but not vegetarian – because I used chicken stock. you could VERY easily use water or vegetable stock if you like to make it a vegetarian meal. Cooking the tortellini in the soup gave it that creamy tomato soup look, […]
We like lettuce wraps here. I’m a novice Asian cook at best, but I do okay. I used Fish Sauce for the first time tonight. It was good – but has to be tempered with other ingredients – or it’s too strong. I adapted this recipe quite a bit from an America’s Test Kitchen recipe. […]
Chicken & Dumplings has a few versions, depending upon where you’re from and what the regional interpretation is. I like the 2 versions I’ve done, with flat dumplings and with fluffy dumplings- my kids LOVE the fluffy dumpling version because it exists traditionally sans vegetables. If you don’t have chicken and stock ready, you can […]
So, my quest for quick, easy, oven-free, and heat-index-friendly recipes continues. Also, my quest for time to BLOG about what I’m making continues. Sorry for the sparse postings lately, folks 🙂 Tonight my baby, who is 11 and not such a baby anymore, and I made a quick and yummy dinner. I had a Ginger […]
I’m a big fan of stir fry for a quick weeknight meal. My husband is not an enthusiastic asian food eater. He hates soy sauce, so I’m not sure how he survives, but he does. This spicy garlic shrimp stir fry recipe got a surprised “Wow that’s really good!” from him, even the zucchini’s were cooked […]
I was running late tonight. I was writing and had the “what am I going to do about dinner” thing nagging me in the back of my head. My plan was to make lasagna….but the need to write was stronger than the need to cook – so lasagna will have to wait. I was thinking of […]