Last year, I posted a recipe for avocado and grapefruit salad, which is refreshing and delicious. I’ve messed with the recipe a bit (OK, not the same at all really) and made it into a light meal, basically a Chicken Milanese. I’ve made it with both grapefruit and orange, and both are wonderful. Here’s my version, with oranges. J’s Chicken Milanese Ingredients 4 large navel oranges 2 or 3 avocados, depending on how much you like avocados and how big they are 1 package baby arugula (I don’t know how many oz those little bags are…5?) 1 lb chicken breast, sliced or pounded thin into 4 cutlets. One of our…

My New Years resolution this year was to eat more pancakes. I didn’t set a goal or a number of pancakes that I had to eat. Just more than last year. In 2020, I probably had pancakes two or three times, so it was not a difficult resolution to keep. I remember when we were first married, and when we lived in Philadelphia, we used to have pancakes every Saturday. It was a fun tradition, aided by Aunt Jemima and Mrs Buttersworth. I remember when I was pregnant, late 2nd trimester, and being so hungry…I gobbled down my pancakes, and then I eyed Ted’s pancakes and he sighed and gave…

New blog friend Martha often posts her weekly menu, and as figuring out WHAT to cook is my biggest cooking challenge, I have found myself going to her posts for inspiration. This week’s menu included a recipe for what Ted calls a ‘vitality bowl’, but the recipe is called Cauliflower Shawarma Grain Bowl. I did a search for the recipe name and came up with a lot of different recipes that look to be pretty similar. I’ll stick with this one as it was delicious. I’m posting here so I don’t lose the recipe, along with my notes, such as they are. There are a lot of steps, but none…

I saw this recipe on the NY Times website, in an article about sheet-pan recipes. I am not a huge fan of the sheet-pan recipe, as often it tastes to me like things could have come out better had they been cooked differently, or at least separately. On the other hand, when Ted is trying to report traffic on the radio from 10 feet away, a sheet-pan meal is a much quieter way of cooking than using a frying pan. So I decided to give this one a try. The picture above is from the website, and to me it looked like you should cook it all on one pan,…

Some days, I absoultely know what to make for dinner. Other days, I have no frikken idea. Sometimes when I don’t know what I’m doing, I look through my pantry to see what there is, and take inspiration from there. This recipe is one you can have most of the ingredients on hand, and just get the fresh veggies that week. I’m not going to lie, I love this recipe. It’s really good with some nice sourdough bread. It’s especially good in summer when it’s hot out, when cherry tomatoes are in season, with a nice glass of Sauvignon Blanc. Yum. But it’s still pretty good on a Tuesday in…

I was poking around the internet the other day, trying to find something a little different but still healthy to make for dinner, and I came across this recipe. It looked a little different, and healthy enough, and we had 1/2 a head of cabbage in the fridge that I wanted to use, so I went ahead and made it. The picture above is from Food Network, I didn’t think about taking one until it was too late. I used red cabbage and sherry vinegar, since that is what I had. I made the full recipe of slaw, but only 2 pork chops. I should have made 3 so Ted…

We eat a lot of chicken around here, and sometimes, we get tired of it. The other night I had some lemon laying around, and thought I might make some chicken piccata. But being tired of chicken, I thought I’d look for a recipe for salmon, and look, I found one! Most of the recipes I find on Food Network are pretty good, though it’s helpful to look at the reviews…sometimes they give you some good pointers, like, “This was great, but too much salt” or “I love this receipe, it’s perfect!” and so on. The recipes on Food Network are mostly based on TV shows. I’m guessing that this…