Category: Dinners
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Ginger Chicken Vegetable (or vegan) Soup
2 lbs chicken, diced (I like to use thighs and breasts together. Omit this part for vegan soup.) 4 T diced ginger (more or less to taste) 2 T olive oil 1 onion 1/4 cup fresh italian parsley 1/4 cup fresh basil 1/4 cup fresh cilantro 2 tablespoons minced garlic 10 slow roasted tomatoes 3…
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Grill-Smoked Salmon
Brine: 1/4 cup soy sauce 1/4 cup brown sugar 3 tsp smoked paprika 1/4 cup of salt lots of course ground pepper 3 T olive oil Combine all of the ingredients, and cover the salmon. Brine for at least 4 hours, preferably overnight. Remove from brine, pat dry, and put on cedar planks soaked in water…
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Veggie (or not) Chili, and Slow Cooker Apple Crisp
Now that it’s autumn, Darius has been hinting about how great it would be to have an apple dessert (“a strudel or something”) sometime in the near future. He’s gone so far as to buy all of the ingredients of a dish, set them up on the counter, and say: “I don’t want you to…
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Tandoori Chicken Kabob
For some reason, this recipe turned out way better than I expected, and this chicken just kind of disappeared. Fast. 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 yellow onions, diced 3 cloves sliced garlic 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper 1/3 teaspoon turmeric 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin 1/4 teaspoon ground mace 1/8 teaspoon dry mustard…
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Black Eyed Peas, Artichoke and Garlic Chicken Sausage, and Kale Soup
After making calas last night (having them for dinner, and wholly regretting it this morning), I decided to make something relatively healthy for dinner. I started this morning by cooking some dry black eyed peas, (BEPs from here on out), but you can use canned BEPs, too. To cook them from scratch: Rinse 2 cups…
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