I always reach for easy stir-fry recipes when I have very little time to put dinner on the table. Stir fry is a perfect one-pot dish that contains protein and veggies. With white or brown rice you’ve got yourself delicious and healthy dinner in no time.
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A few weeks back we went to a local Chinese restaurant to pick up some food as I was hungry for stir-fry and didn’t feel like cooking. We picked out cashew chicken, general’s chicken, and curry chicken stir fries.
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Recently I was asking my family what they wanted for dinner. My husband said meatloaf because he had heard someone talking about it recently and used to eat it a lot as a child. To be honest I haven’t eaten or made homemade meatloaf for a long time. My mother in-law used to make beef meatloaf for us when I first came to the USA in 1997. I remember liking it and remembered that she served it with mashed potatoes.
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This summer I entered a contest and won a box full of goodies from Bob’s Red Mill. I don’t normally enter for these types of random drawings but Bob’s Red Mill products are so good that I couldn’t pass it up. I was so glad to have won some cool products.
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I don’t make that many pasta dishes at our house. I grew up eating rice at most meals so when I think about dinner I cook things that pares well with rice.
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In early summer I bought several tomato plants from our local nursery. I had been hoping to have a variety of different types of tomatoes to enjoy through out the summer.
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We have a fairly big garden and I always plant too many zucchini. Even if I give away many of the zucchini I still need to find dishes to use up all the rest that I have. Today I’m making a zucchini cheddar biscuit that I think is pretty unique.
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I have been very happy this summer with my garden. It’s been wonderful to get out in the morning to pick berries. We have several wild blackberry bushes that are producing a lot of big berries. My blueberry bushes are not as well established but still provided enough fruit this summer to let me make this delicious mixed berry coffee cake.
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Last year I picked out an unusual herb plant from our local nursery. The name of the plant is epazote and it’s a perennial aromatic herb used in cooking. Both the fresh leaves and tender stems are used in soups, stews, making teas, among other things. Check out the link above for more information!
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This week we had some company over for dinner. I love having people over to try new recipes that I’ve been working on. I decided to serve roast chicken, salad, biscuits, and these new bacon corn muffins that I present today.
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