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Recipes for Thanksgiving and others we like or want to cook

Filet Mignon for New Years Eve

updated on May 9, 2024January 6, 2024By David-Pam

For New Years Eve 2023, we visited my sister and her family and we repeated our long-standing tradition of cooking filet mignon for our New Years Eve dinner, usually just…

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Chicken Stew

updated on May 11, 2024March 6, 2023By Pamela M

Another version of a 1-pot meal using chicken. Ingredients olive oil 4 chicken thighs, skin removed, bone-in or deboned 3 or 4 cloves garlic, minced or sliced 1 medium onion,…

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Green beans with maple pecans

updated on May 12, 2024January 31, 2023By Pamela M

In Portugal, traditional restaurants may serve flat green beans julienned and steamed. They seem to be always available fresh at the mini-mercados that sell veggies, and of course at the…

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Refried Beans with Chorizo

updated on May 12, 2024January 31, 2023By Pamela M

Ingredients 1 large onion, diced 1 clove garlic, pressed or minced, optional 2 or 3 inches of chorizo de frango, diced or quartered lengthwise and sliced 1 jar pinto (manteiga)…

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Easy Ratatouille

updated on August 11, 2024January 31, 2023By Pamela M

Ingredients olive oil 1 eggplant, cut into 1-cm cubes 1 - 2 zucchinis, quartered if large, then sliced or chunked 1 onion, diced 1 - 3 garlic cloves, minced 1…

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Chicken Chili, my Portuguese version

updated on May 12, 2024January 31, 2023By Pamela M

I used to make a chicken and white bean chili with a couple small cans of Hatch chiles. I was never big on making my own stock, so I used…

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Thanksgiving 2020 – Covid Plans

updated on August 5, 2022December 3, 2020By David Emerson

We had a pared-down Thanksgiving dinner and shared pie pictures with the guests we would ordinarily have had. We’ll turn those photos into the traditional group pie picture. Menu Cheese…

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Root Mash

updated on June 28, 2023December 3, 2020By David Emerson

We first had root mash from the Allouette/La Riviera French deli. Here’s how we made it in 2020. Ingredients 4 cups cut-up potatoes (maybe 8 small to medium potatoes) 2…

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Orange-Cranberry Bread

updated on August 5, 2022November 21, 2020By David Emerson

This traditional Thanksgiving contribution is essential! Pam even bought a special pan to make four cute little loaves at once. Ingredients 1 cup white sugar½ teasp. salt½ teasp. baking soda1…

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Cranberry Orange Relish

updated on August 5, 2022November 21, 2020By David Emerson

Pam has made this recipe forever. It's a favorite of hers and she makes extra for a particular guest to take home. It must have been in some other cookbook…

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