Tag: main course

Taco Meat

Taco Meat

This is a wonderful base recipe to make anything from tacos to burritos to taco salad to nachos. It’s flavorful, and you can control the level of spice and seasoning to suit your own tastes.

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Macaroni and Cheese with Turkey Ham

Macaroni and Cheese with Turkey Ham

This is the perfect comfort food casserole, and a big favorite at pot lucks and church dinners. It is also a quick fix: the cheese sauce can easily be made while the pasta is cooking, and the timing almost always works perfectly for me. If you leave the turkey ham out of the recipe, it’s the perfect casserole main dish for a Lent evening.

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Whole Wheat Penne Pasta with Chicken and Veggies

Whole Wheat Penne Pasta with Chicken and Veggies

I was hungry for something creamy and pasta-y with chicken and veggies, so I put “pasta with chicken and veggies” on the menu this week and made the recipe up on the fly. It turned out very nice.

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Country Style Chicken and Radish Skillet Dinner

Country Style Chicken and Radish Skillet Dinner

Radishes used to be part of the meal, but lately seem to be relegated to color in green salads. This is such a quick dinner that is a different blend of tastes than the “norm” and utilizes radishes to their fullest extent. If you’re looking for something new to try, seeking out a new family favorite, you found it here.

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Continental Chicken with Spicy Sauce

Continental Chicken with Spicy Sauce

This is a beautiful “company” dish. Serve with a simple salad and French bread.

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Broiled Blue Cheese Tenderloin Steaks

Broiled Blue Cheese Tenderloin Steaks

A perfect recipe for a special occasion. Our daughter LOVES steak. Any time she talks about enjoying a vegetarian lifestyle, we remind her that vegetarians don’t regularly consume medium-rare steaks.

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Barbequed Snapper Bundles

Barbequed Snapper Bundles

This is a wonderful dish to serve summer company. There is minimal cleanup, it feels and tastes like summer, and you cannot beat the flavor combination.

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Friday Fried Fish

Friday Fried Fish

Even though baked is “healthier,” this dish is really, really good. I like to serve it with hush puppies, fried potatoes, and cole slaw.

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Easy Tuna Casserole

Easy Tuna Casserole

This is THE EASIEST meal you can make for your family. My children love it; they get seconds and thirds. Throw it on a plate with some green peas and a garden salad, and you have a healthy, home cooked meal that takes you as long as it takes the macaroni to boil.

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Mediterranean Grilled Chicken on the George Forman

Mediterranean Grilled Chicken on the George Forman

This recipe is fantastic for grilled chicken, whether it’s outside on a charcoal grill, inside on a cast iron grill pan, or on the George Forman. I served it with grape leaves, Hummus bi Tahini, Greek salad, and an olive tray.

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