Chicken in Puff Pastry
Our refrigerator died last week — getting new appliances is tough. Two-thirds of the models we looked at on major sites are out of stock, and those that are have delivery dates into May...
Category: Family Recipes
Pork-in-the-Oven
My Mom made this on a regular basis when I was growing up. It was one of my favorite dishes. For a very tasty dish, it’s amazingly simple to make. Pork-In-The-Oven 8 pork chops...
Baked Scallops Scampi
I recall that I invented this recipe as I wanted to make a dish something like Shrimp Scampi. Regardless of motivation, Lorraine loves it. We haven’t made this in years, as the sons don’t...
Baked Chicken and Rice
I invented this recipe when Lorraine & I were first married, living in Rochester NY. I could shut the oven off half-way through baking, we’d go for an hour bike ride, and it would...
General Tso Stirfry
I was looking for ideas for dinner when I spotted a recipe for General Tso’s Chicken Nuggets. It sounded interesting, but I wasn’t interested in deep frying chicken nuggets. Or deep frying anything, for...
Patrick’s Pizza Sauce
Patrick’s Pizza Sauce 1 x 28 oz can Cento’s* whole peeled tomatoes 1 x 14.5 oz can Cento’s* petite diced tomatoes 2 x 6 oz cans Cento’s* tomato paste 1 tbsp chili paste 1...
Chicken Stirfry with Coconut Milk
This morning Lorraine asked me to make a chicken stirfry. Cool! I purchased things a few weeks ago with intention of making something Thai-ish, so I had ingredients. She picked up chicken breast and...
Shrimp Teriyaki
This title is misleading. The real purpose of this post is the Teriyaki Sauce. I purchased a large bag of 13-15 count shrimp for Eric’s birthday dinner a few weeks ago. The bag is...
Cherry Sauce
Today is Eric’s birthday and Lorraine asked me to get a cheesecake for dessert. I was going to buy a can of cherry pie filling in case anyone wanted sauce on their cheesecake …...
Pork-Port Stroganoff
I read a recipe on Better Homes & Gardens recently that caught my attention. It was a beef stroganoff recipe where the sour cream sauce was mixed together, then poured over the meat and...
Three Onion Soup
As much as I enjoy onion soup, I’ve never made it until recently. For whatever reason, I had a belief that it took significant effort. A few months ago I spotted an onion soup...
Beef Wellington with Chestnut Duxelles
Most of the family dislikes mushrooms, so when we decided to make Beef Wellington for our New Years Eve dinner, I found a substitution for the mushroom duxelles that surrounds the beef inside the...
Crockpot Brisket in BBQ Sauce, take #3
Lorraine wanted me to cook another brisket for our pre-Memorial Day dinner, but wanted me to do something different than the last 2 times. I hunted through many recipes, but couldn’t find anything that...
Paprika Pork with Fried Shallots
Today’s recipes are stream of thought. Lorraine wanted pork tenderloin, so I quick defrosted a package in room temperature water in the sink. With just us, I cook 1 tenderloin that night and the...
Crockpot Brisket in BBQ Sauce, take #2
The recipe for the first time I cooked brisket is here: Crockpot Brisket in BBQ Sauce Patrick is coming for dinner today so I convinced Lorraine that we should do brisket again (this took...