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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Recipes for Thanksgiving and other food we like or want to cook
Chicken Stew
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,…
Read MoreGreen beans with maple pecans
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…
Read MoreRefried Beans with Chorizo
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)…
Read MoreEasy Ratatouille
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…
Read MoreChicken Chili, my Portuguese version
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…
Read MoreThanksgiving 2020 – Covid Plans
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…
Read MoreRoot Mash
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…
Read MoreOrange-Cranberry Bread
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…
Read MoreCranberry Orange Relish
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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