3-30-11

French Dip au Jus

I cooked a small eye of the round roast on Sunday, sliced it and heated it up in jus & served it on French bread with the jus and shoestring fries.

3-28-11

Pork & Salsa

A pounded pan fried slice of pork loin topped with melted sharp cheddar cheese and homemade salsa; served with steamed broccoli and baked potato.

3-25-11

Seared Mahi Mahi

Mahi Mahi fillet dusted with Cajun spice and pan seared; served with roasted asparagus and rice pilaf.

3-24-11

Country Fried Chicken Breast

A chicken beast lightly coated with seasoned self-rising flour, pan fried and served with mashed potatoes, roasted green bean & carrots and homemade gravy.

3-23-11

Minestrone

Made this with homemade chicken stock, tomatoes, vegetables, escarole, herbs and mini-meatballs (mix of pork & beef) tossed in some pasta - NO BEANS! Served it with some crusty bread.

3-22-11

Spicy Pork Loin

A slice of pork loin seared, deglazed with white wine & chicken stock and finished with a homemade B-B-Q sauce and whole butter; served with sweet potato fries and steamed broccoli.

3-21-11

Composed Salad

Shredded chicken breast, blanched green beans & broccoli, carrot, red potato, cucumber, radish and diced tomato all dressed and served on greens with French bread.

3-20-11

Cheese Burger

After watching Diners, Dive-Ins & Drives burger show I had to have one. A half-pound burger grilled and topped with cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato and pickle; served with seasoned fries.

3-18-11

Pizza

Used up my leftover meat sauce as a base for Genoa salami, pepperoni, green pepper and a four cheese blend on a whole wheat crust.

3-17-11

Grilled Rump Steak

A nice warm late winter day made grilling a must do. the steak was served with steamed broccoli and a couple of small roasted Yukon Golds..

3-15-11

Grilled Chicken Breast

Chicken breast dusted with Cajun spice and cumin, grilled and served with rice pilaf and roasted green beans.

3-14-11

Operation Left Overs

Left over beef stew from last week. Served with French bread.

3-11-11

Roast Chicken

Roast chicken served on top of wilted escarole with garlic and chili flakes along with roasted potato and asparagus.

3-10-11

One & One

A homemade meatball & sweet Italian sausage in homemade sauce over ziti. Topped with grated Parmesan with garlic bread.

3-9-11

Beef Stew

Put the crock-pot to work to make traditional beef stew; added green beans to amp up the vegetable quotient.

3-8-11

Pork Lo Mien

Pork stir fried with snow peas, broccoli, carrot, red pepper, celery, onion, garlic and ginger-finished with stock, oyster and soy sauce; tossed with noodles

3-7-11

Salad "Not-coise"

Sort of like a Nicoise salad except there is roasted chicken instead of tuna, no anchovies, olives or hard cooked eggs - I also skipped the boiled potatoes; served it with French bread.

3-6-11

Mahi Mahi

Mahi Mahi dusted with my Cajun spice blend and pan seared; served with roasted green beans and tomato basil "rice-otto".

3-3-11

Soup & Sandwich

Homemade tomato basil soup with a bacon Swiss panini for dipping; served with chips and a homemade pickle.

3-2-11

Fried Chicken

Started this in oil and finished it in the oven. Served it up old school TV dinner style - mashed potatoes and corn. I had a craving.

3-1-11

Pork with Basil

A slice of pork loin pounded thin and pan seared. Deglazed with white wine and chicken stock finished with finely minced basil and heavy cream; served with roasted green beans and rice pilaf.

2-28-11

Chicken & Broccoli Alfredo

Well, a lighter version of Alfredo - not so much cream or butter. Pieces of chicken breast sauteed with minced shallot and garlic, deglazed with white wine and finished with chicken stock, heavy cream and grated Parmesan; all tossed with penne pasta.