Winter Solstice Celebration
This was last year! This year something different but what? Stay tuned! Enjoy this dinner recipe in the meantime, Standing Rib Roast Dinner.
Potatoes Au Gratin with Pork Chops
One of the meals I had as a kid! We called the potatoes scalloped incorrectly and often used Velveeta Cheese … Yikes! Not always successfully. I have changed a few things here including the cheese. But I haven’t increased the ingredient list … one of the great positives of this recipe. The prep is easy and quick. The potatoes need about 50-60 minutes baking time for the best flavor and texture.
The New York cut pork chops can be pan seared until done or quickly browned and baked for the last 5 minutes on top the potatoes. The baking can lead to dryness if not careful. A no fuss applesauce can be cooked up in 10-15 minutes from two Granny Smith apples and a few tablespoons of water. The perfect meal with few ingredients. Dress it up with spices if you like but I just like the simplicity.
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Turkey and More
Savory or Sweet Scones Coming Up Next
Left to Right, row 1: Bacon Pecan Maple Buttermilk Waffles, Fluffy Donuts, Oatmeal Muffins, Breakfeast, Gingerbread Muffins row 2: Eggs Ham Mushrooms, Breakfast Burrito row 3: Eggs Potatoes & Spinach, Date Nut Bars row 4: Best Coffee Cake, Strawberry Banana Pineapple Smoothie row 5: Spice Cake Donuts, Healthy Oatmeal Breakfast, Sausage Peppers Onions, Best Banana Bread, Cinnamon Rolls
Lots of Family and Food over the last days. It’s been great fun! Thinking of what to do with my few turkey left overs. Decided to try out my new scone baking dish. And going to try adding a little of this and that to my recipe, making a variety. Maybe cranberries, turkey, cheese, Meyer lemon. The lemon tree is full this year. Can’t wait!
Since we look at scones as a breakfast food most often here are a few of past Kitchen Getaway Breakfast Recipes. And I’ve added the two Dinner Recipes below specific for cooked turkey. In the meantime, I’ll be in the kitchen coming up with some great scones to share with you later.
Chicken Cordon Bleu, Broccoli & Mornay Sauce
Chicken Cordon Bleu on a bed of Mornay Sauce drizzled Broccoli. The prep time of this one dish meal and baking time are each about 30 minutes. The perfect dinner for family and friends. Serve with a side of rice or not. Enjoy!
30 Minute Beef Stew Revisited
Chicken Divan-Cordon Bleu Dish Coming Up next
I have lots of company coming! And I may love to cook but family first! So, its got to be quick. Yep, I’ll be cooking every night now until Thursday’s big meal. My plan is to put together meals that are quick and pretty much one dish … Like this 30 Minute Beef Stew. The Baked Chicken with Roasted Vegetables is another really good choice. Click on these links for the recipes. Sunday I’m putting together a new recipe combining all the good things in Chicken Cordon Bleu and Chicken Divan. Stay tuned to see the outcome. Until tomorrow!
Pasta e Fagioli (Pasta Fazool)
Pasta And Beans
Dean Martin certainly created a curiosity about pasta fazool with his song “That’s Amore.” But it wasn’t until I heard a friend’s remark, he was driving around in his corvette when the rest of us were eating pasta fazool, that my curiosity was pushed enough … I needed to know. (Thanks Paulie) Simply put, this is a traditional Italian dish made with, you guessed it, pasta and beans … Originally a peasant soup usually made without meat.
Since those days I’ve tasted many versions of this soup and pretty much love them all. I’ve heard the chain, Olive Garden, has their version as well. So, I jumped on the bandwagon and created my own Pasta Fagioli.
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Easy Shredded Beef
Tonight this meat was served simply … with bread. The extra is going into my taquitos. And when you find out how easy all this is….
You know the diversity of this meat, tacos, burritos, tostadas, enchiladas, sandwiches, over rice or potatoes. It’s just a good recipe to know and this one is Easy.
I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as my family.
Chicken Cacciatore
But Is This Chicken?
Actually, it isn’t!
But this recipe is going to include chicken breasts. And, what I’ve done here. This is a 30 minute version of this hunter stew with little fuss.
Curious yet, about what I’ve used? Turkey! But not just turkey, lean ground Italian spiced turkey. I love turkey and sometimes find myself substituting it for chicken if I can. For me this works here but if you’re looking for something close to the actual dish … Not to worry.
Sopas
My Niece and Her Husband Invited Us For Sunday Sopas
Absolutely Perfect, Thank You! Here’s my brother’s recipe if you haven’t tried this Traditional Portuguese Soup.
We had a wonderful time. Sopas Sunday.
Yes, the comments section is closed but I do receive your comments directly and respond if you have questions. This particular comment (received August 2023) details what many of us as children experienced. Enjoy the nostalgia! BTW, the beans are called tremocos in Portuguese Lupin in English.
“I grew up in the San Joaquin Valley and after church on Sunday we would go to this fiesta. There would always be a long line outside the back of the church going down to the basement, we would watch the parade with all the royalty girls with the beautiful dresses marching up to the church.They got to go down and eat first so we would stand in line and they always had places outside the church while you were waiting to go down where you could buy a soda or a cocktail and these beans (can’t remember the name of them but they had a casing and you’d pop the bean in your mouth and the casing would stay on your finger you threw that part away).Then when it was time to go down and eat you’d pick out a soda or drink for the adults and sit at these long tables with butcher paper on them. After about 15 minutes or so they would bring bowls of pickles then big bowls of stale french bread and then a big bowl of meat with the most amazing smell of spices and meat with lots of juice and cabbage, you’d get a piece of bread and spoon the meat, cabbage and juice onto the bread. It would make the stale bread soggy and yummy. It would just melt in your mouth and when it was all over you would leave offering on your way out if you chose to. My mother who is 84 still makes this for the family every year and it brings back so many wonderful memories. This recipe is the closest to what I remember it tasting like. Thank you for sharing it.”
How To Dress Up Basic Potato Soup
If you know the how to of a basic Potato Soup you have multiplied your soup recipes, well, not infinitely exactly but too numerous to count. So many options … make it creamy and rich or spicy and meaty … mash the potatoes or leave chunks for more texture … add greens and leave off cream … add milk and not cream … add clams or sausage or just go it plain. An economical soup with so much potential.
My brother is here to visit and today is going to be our first day of real rain in months. Yes I’m in the California drought area. To celebrate I’m making soup. I know Dan likes Portuguese Soups but he has plans to help his daughter with Sopas tomorrow. Not sure he would appreciate chicken soup. How about a rich Potato Soup! It’s not unlike the base for Boston Clam Chowder and this too is his favorite.