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Posts tagged “Meat”

Weeknight Recipe: Pork Meatballs with Lemon and Thyme

November can feel so single-minded. It's all about Thanksgiving, turkey, cranberries, and feasting! But Thanksgiving is only one day, and life goes on around it. This is a recipe for a weeknight when ...

Recipe: Totally Tender Meatballs in Tomato Sauce

On a cold night, there's nothing quite like a plate of hot, tender meatballs in tomato sauce. They're pure comfort food. Here's our go-to recipe for tender, flavorful meatballs with garlic, rosemary, ...

Recipe: Coconut Milk Chicken

Since falling in love with Jamie Oliver's Chicken in Milk recipe, I've wanted to try another take on the concept and simmer a whole chicken in coconut milk. How decadent! Yesterday afternoon I had my ...

Recipe: Duck with Black Olives and Black Olive Risotto
Cookbook Recipes

We like to have a few recipes tucked away for special occasions. Meals that are foolproof, crowd-pleasing, and not too difficult — but still a little more demanding (and impressive) than our usu...

Helen's Pork Chops with Savory Blueberry Sauce
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Recipe: Pork Chops with Savory Blueberry Sauce How long does it take? 25 minutes Category: Omnivore Name: Helen Why is it a favorite meal? It's fast, bright-tasting, and uses just a few common ingre...

Kevin's Spicy Orange Teriyaki Chicken and Shrimp
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Recipe: Spicy Orange Teriyaki Chicken and Shrimp How long does it take? 30-45 minutes Category: Omnivore Name: Kevin Why is it a favorite meal? It's quick, full of flavor, and gives you tasty lefto...

Try This! How To Make Candied Salted Bacon

There comes a time in everyone's life when you're standing in the kitchen at 2am (pants optional) testing recipes. The quickly approaching morning sun seems irrelevant when you're busy creating the s...

Susan's Dry Rubbed Steak & Shrimp with Watermelon Salad
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Recipe: Dry Rubbed Steak & Shrimp with Watermelon Goat Cheese Salad How long does it take? 30 minutes Category: Omnivore Name: Susan Why is it a favorite meal? It is quick, flavorful and satisfy...

Brett's Cool and Spicy Avocado Pork Tacos
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Recipe: Cool and Spicy Avocado Pork Tacos with Mexican Cart Style Corn on the Cob Category: Omnivore How long does it take? 30 minutes Name: Brett Why is it a favorite meal? Fresh summery flavors wi...

S.T.'s Tex-Mex Bacon-Wrapped Chicken Nuggets
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Recipe: Tex Mex Bacon-Wrapped Chicken Nuggets with Homemade Chipotle Ranch Category: Omnivore How long does it take? 20 minutes prep, 15 minutes cooking Name: S.T. Why is it a favorite meal? It's t...

Kathleen's Chicken Tinga Tostadas
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Recipe: Chicken Tinga Tostadas How long does it take? 30-40 minutes Category: Omnivore Name: Kathleen Why is it a favorite meal? I can get all the ingredients at my local corner store. It's flavorfu...

A Home-Cooked Weeknight Dinner (But Not By Me)

It pays to leave cookbooks lying about when my mother comes to town. This week she surprised us with two great mid-week home-cooked meals. All I had to do was take the picture....

Jessie's Prosciutto and Basil Wrapped Chicken Fingers
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Recipe: Prosciutto and Basil Wrapped Chicken Fingers How long does it take? About 20 minutes Category: Omnivore Name: Jessie Why is it a favorite meal? It's quick, easy, versatile — and really...

Jessica's "Planned" Leftover Burritos
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Recipe: "Planned" Leftover Burritos How long does it take? 10 min prep, 20 min cook Category: Omnivore Name: Jessica Why is it a favorite meal? I can change it based on my mood, what I have on hand,...

Recipe: Homemade Beef (or Turkey or Fish) Jerky

Lobel's Prime Meats on Manhattan's Upper East Side is known for their fine (expensive) cuts of meat, excellent service, and family-owned small-shop vibe. So it was with great excitement that I opened ...

Laura's Prosciutto Wrapped Chicken
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Recipe: Prosciutto Wrapped Chicken How long does it take? 20 minutes Category: Omnivore Name: Laura Why is it a favorite meal? Not only is this dish super quick to make, but most of the ingredients ...

Eun's Asian-style Rolled Meat Loaf with Rice
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Recipe: Asian-style Rolled Meat Loaf with Rice Category: Omnivore How long does it take? 40 minutes Name: Eun Why is it a favorite meal? It's a delicious, fun to make, well balanced meal....

Robyn's Easy As Chicken Pie
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Recipe: Easy As Chicken Pie How long does it take? 25 minutes Name: Robyn Why is it a favorite meal? This recipe is so easy, and almost all of your ingredients are pre-cooked. Also makes GREAT lefto...

Lindsey's Lamb Burgers
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Recipe: Lamb Burgers How long does it take? 25 minutes Name: Lindsey Why is it a favorite meal? Fast, delicious and healthy! This is a great late summer recipe that uses items on hand from the garde...

Basic Recipe Template: Weekend Pot Roast

Not only does pot roast make a hearty weekend supper for the whole family, it makes some mighty excellent leftovers, too. In fact, we've started making pot roast with the specific intention of having ...

Recipe: Chicken Milanese with Summer Salad

We're always looking for something new to do with chicken. This is a simple, classic Italian dish we love—a super-thin, breaded cutlet topped with a colorful, healthy, summery salad. ...

Recipe: Barbecue Chicken and Macaroni Salad

About this time in the summer, we start getting tired of the goopy, mayonnaise-thick side salads that are standard fare at every cook-out and picnic. We wanted something a little different to bring to...

Grill Recipe: Tangy, Spicy Boneless Skinless Chicken Thighs

Let me say it straight up: This is one of those not so pretty recipes. Who wants to look at a pile of grilled chicken? But it makes up for its lack of photogenic quality by being really, really delici...

Recipe Recommendation: Beef Stroganoff

I always get so crestfallen when I see people making beef stroganoff using those powdered stroganoff mix packets. They're so unnecessary; you can make stroganoff from scratch rather easily, and it ta...

Pain de Viande: Bison Meatloaf
Guest Post from Janice at Real Food Made Easy

Marion and her sister over at “She said, she said“ have been writing about nostalgic/comfort food such as tuna casserole and meat loaf. Well, that got me to hankering after meatloaf, so, what’s ...