Recipe: Breakfast Casserole with Green ChiliesSource: Cathy A ( Read more... )

Recipe: [Not really] Italian Wedding Soup
Source: my own take on a classic
Serves: 4-5, I guess?
Cook's Notes: (Semi) vegetarian version of a fast and easy soup.

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Recipe: TVP ‘meatballs’
Source: my own
Serves: varies
Cook's Notes: This is my favorite way a preparing TVP granules (textured soy protein - a meat substitute). I use them in soups, cut up on pizza, in tomato sauce, or as burgers. In short pretty much any way you’d use ground beef. More notes at the end of the recipe.

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Recipe: Chicken Curry
Source: my own, inspired by various Punjabi recipes
Serves: 6
Cook's Notes: Tasty, easy. Not nearly as fussy as it looks. Not even remotely authentic; just me riffing on a theme - taking ideas from here and there and mashing them together. Can be made vegetarian by substituting TVP for the chicken.

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Recipe: Kabocha Squash Soup
Source: Adapted from gingersnapps's recipe
Serves: 10
Cook's Notes: For a while we were getting a CSA box from Underwood Farms, an excellent local establishment, and one week they gave us a Kabocha Squash (sometimes called Kabocha Pumpkin). gingersnapps looked for recipes on the internet and found one that she adapted, and which I have further ( Read more... )

Recipe: Bacon-wrapped Smokies
Source: Adapted from a recipe on allrecipes.com
Serves: 12 or so
Cook's Notes: We made these for Easter Brunch this year.

( The brown sugar cuts the richness. ;-) )

Recipe: Tres Leches Cake
Source: Adapted from a recipe on Food.comServes: 24-30 ( Read more... )

Recipe: Chocolate Cherry Bundt Cake
Source: gingersnapps
Serves: 12 or more
Cook's Notes: Niece gingersnapps says this was an accident, but what a happy one it turned out to be. ladymora even requested it for her annual Birthday Swim Party this year.

( Mmmmm... Chocolate! )

Recipe: Quick Avgolemono, Orzo, and Chicken Soup
Source: Cooking Light, online
Serves: 4-6
Cook's Notes: I adore Avgolemono soup, and this is as good as many versions I've tried at various Greek restaurants. I've been making it with leftover drippings and meat from Butter Broiled Chicken, which gives the soup an even more intense chicken flavor. ( Read more... )

Recipe: Butter Broiled Chicken
Source: Mom & Dad
Serves: 4-6
Cook's Notes: I don't know where my mother and father learned to cook chicken breasts this way, but it's just the best, very simple, very delicious, and lately I've been using the leftovers to make Quick Avgolemono Soup, which is adapted from a Cooking Light recipe that I got online -- ( Read more... )