Category: Main Dishes/Entrées
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Cure Your Own Pastrami
Pastrami is one of those things I have dearly missed. And it was hard to think about trying to do it without curing salt. All commercial curing salt is dyed pink for safety and contains dextrose which is generally derived from corn. But mixing up my own curing salt was scary, because let’s face it,…
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Unstuffed Cabbage Rolls
This summer I have also found myself with a good bit of cabbage on my hands. Since I already have a good supply of sauerkraut made up, I needed to find some other options. I canned some piccalilli. I sliced it into thick “steaks”, brushed it with minced garlic and olive oil, and roasted it.…
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Meatballs with Mushrooms, Onions and Spaghetti Squash
I’m not sure if you’re ready for hot food, but I really am. In order to get ready for work after a week of vacation, I needed something hearty but not heavy. Spaghetti squash seemed to fit the bill with some meatballs and mushrooms and onions. It seems I reach over and over again for…
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Cold Roasted Vegetable Sauce
It has been hot this summer. Hotter than normal, longer than normal, and I am frankly rather sick of hearing the AC drone on. I want to cook food! I want to want to eat hot food. But I don’t. It’s hot. So what I’ve been doing is heating the kitchen way up one day,…
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Fajita Marinated Steak Tips
Fajita Marinated Steak Tips Well, I was going to go all ‘Denise-crazy’ on you guys and make the tortillas I posted two weeks ago and cashew sour cream (since I don’t have commercially available safe products) and make fajitas that looked all pretty, but my mom is visiting and I’m exhausted from pruning the rhododendrons…
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Klingon Boneless Ribs
Okay, so here’s the story: I’m a die-hard nerd, but I tend to flit about in the nerdiverse a lot. I would not have called myself a die-hard Star Trek fan (although I did in my senior high school yearbook!), but I’ve been surrounded by them most of my life. Since Netflix added them all,…
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Blood Orange Flounder
Fish! I’m sorry for any of you who have fish allergies. I promise that we have plenty of non-fish recipes for you — hit the search bar up in the right-hand corner. I’ve recently discovered the Yankee Fisherman’s Co-operative in Seabrook — I’m pretty sure that the fish comes in the dock off the back…
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Deep Dish Cast Iron Skillet Pizza
I’ve been working on pizza crust, but I haven’t been able to get a nice yeasty dough that I can roll out that I like. The first attempt was as hard as a bathroom tile, although it tasted pretty good. Then I had the brainstorm that although I didn’t have a fresh dough recipe yet,…