I found this recipe (well sort of!) in my new 29 Minutes to Dinner cookbook from the Pampered Chef. The original recipe was a little different. I immediately swapped out ingredients I wasn’t crazy about (clam juice) and I knew my family would not eat (mint).
Tonight was t-ball practice so I measured out all of the ingredients before leaving the house. This way when I came home, everything was ready to go for a quick dinner.
Photo by Jim Hitchcock
I found this recipe in one of the many cooking e-newsletters that I receive. It sounded and looked great so I thought I would give it a try.
My favorite salad of all time is the Cobb Salad at Brixx Grille and Tavern in Scranton! The other night for dinner, I was craving this salad but couldn’t run out and pick one up. Fortunately, I had most of the ingredients on hand so I tried to re-create it at home.
I absolutely love Chinese food! But everytime I tried to make it at home, the results were mediocre at best. In my previous attempts, I would use chicken, various vegetables and bottled stir fry sauces. Not impressed. Not even a little. When I found this recipe for Kung Pao Chicken I thought I would give it one more try.
Who says that just because you’re working late, you have to order out? Or, have leftovers for dinner? I knew I was going to be working late, so I needed to find a recipe that 1.) had a few elements that I could make in advance and, 2.) did not take long to get on the table. That’s where Pork Chops Oreganata comes in.
After a stressful day at work, the mere thought of having to cook dinner is exhausting. It’s nights like these that I like to have a few simple dinner ideas up my sleeve. You know…the ones that you can usually pull together from basic ingredients in your pantry and the ones that don’t make a kitchen full of dirty dishes.
Thursday night is play group night. For the past three years, my two friends and I have been meeting on Thursdays so that our sons (all born in February 2006) could get together to play. These nights are usually very informal — pizza, subs, no stress, no fuss.
