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Category Archives: Dinner
How To Make Ham and Cheese Rolls
If you were here last week, you saw the first version of these as asiago cheddar rolls. The wife and kids didn’t get any of those, so I made them again, but this time added some ham and turned them into the main course. Sort of like mini-personal pizzas but without the sauce. You can [...]
How To Make Sloppy Giuseppe
Sloppy Joe is is a classic what’s-in-the-fridge kind of meal. “Let’s see … I’ve got ground beef, onion, green pepper, and some leftover tomato sauce. I know! I’ll throw it all together, add some spices, heat it up and put it on white bread.” You do realize that’s mostly what’s in those cans of Manwich, [...]
How To Make Gnocchi
Gnocchi is a tough one. Starting with how to pronounce it: NYO-kee, like the “ny” sound from “canyon” but with a long “o” sound after.
Then is the texture: light and fluffy in the mouth, but settles really heavy in the stomach if you eat too much. (My father-in-law — both parents Italian immigrants — said [...]
How To Make Chili Two Ways
If this isn’t the least-precise recipe you’ve ever seen, it probably wins the title for things I’ve posted here. The reason is I’ve finally really accepted that there is no single perfect chili recipe. There are as many ways to make good chili as there are ways to serve it: Over nachos, in a bread [...]
Heather’s Stickless Shish-Kabobs