This chicken is foolproof. Juicy breast meat and crispy brown skin. And so easy to make. The combination of salt and high heat works wonders!
Adapted from a Thomas Keller recipe.
The Menu:
- Chicken Chili
- Top with chopped onions, corn chips, grated cheddar, sour cream, limes
One of the few Barefoot Contessa recipes that doesn’t include a stick of butter. This is so yummy we eat it hot in cold weather and at room temperature in the summer. No beans. Did I mention the great leftovers? Freezes beautifully.
Adapted from: The Barefoot Contessa
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The Menu:
- Roasted Shredded Pork with Carrots and Onions
- Lightly dressed Coleslaw
This slow cooking dish is perfect for a cold winter day. It’s easy to make, difficult to mess up and makes fabulous leftovers. Start it early in the day, it cooks with very little tending in a low oven for about 3 1/2 hours. Try it!
Adapted from: the kitchn
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The Menu:
- Baked Crab Cakes
- Arugula or Mixed Greens
Baked so they are diet friendly and easy to make. I buy jumbo lump crab from Costco. In our area Costco sells Phillips crab. It’s already cooked and pasteurized so its refrigerated shelf life makes this something that you can have on hand for a quick, almost unplanned meal. This dish is all about the crab – not much filler.
Adapted from: Hilltop Crab Cake, The Washington Post
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The Menu:
- Chicken Paillard
- Arugula or Mixed Greens
John calls this dish Chicken Pizza. While I hate the nickname it does sort of describe the dish — minus the bread. And it makes for wonderful leftovers!
Adapted from: Eric Ripert AvecEric (Who doesn’t love Eric Ripert?)
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The Menu:
- Baked Mahi Mahi with feta cheese, herbs and lemon slices
- Greek Salad
- Toasted Orzo with Fennel
This is so satisfying I eat it year round. By using grape tomatoes the salad is tasty whatever the season. And the orzo, well, I invent reasons to sneak into the kitchen and eat the leftovers.
Adapted from: Melissa Roberts, Gourmet Magazine
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The Menu:
- Larb Gai
- Brown Rice
- Cucumber Spears
Tasty, satisfying and you can feel virtuous eating this diet friendly dish from Southeast Asia. Go heavier on the herbs, quantities do not have to be exact.
Adapted from: Julia Moskin, The New York Times
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The Menu:
- Grilled Tuna Steak with Provencal Vinaigrette
- Grilled Spring Onions
- Couscous with Toasted Pinenuts
My latest dinner find! Wonderful, easy and seasonally perfect. Can swap out the tuna for swordfish or any steak fish. Make twice as many spring onions, they’re that good.
Adapted from: Bonnie S. Benwick, The Washington Post
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Changing Palate 