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Posts from the ‘Main Dish’ Category

Basic Sauces Explained – Recipes for your favorite basic Sauces

A friend, who’s a really savvy cook, read me the riot act, via email, right after last week’s posting appeared. Quite rightly, he pointed out that I had confused sauces identity by incorrectly lumping them with gravies.   Read more

Savvy Sauce Recipes – Advanced Sauce Techniques

Those of you who read last week’s blog on sauce recipes will have realized that sauces, in their classic forms, can be tricky, time consuming, possibly expensive, to make and certainly no friend to any type of diet. Read more

The Mediterranean Diet Explained – Tips and Recipes

Lately the Mediterranean Diet is very popular and highly recommended. Correctly titled, it’s not actually “The Mediterranean Diet” but rather “A Mediterranean Style Diet” because this is not a calculated, calibrated formula for eating specific items over a given time to achieve a set goal.  Read more

Salad Days Part 2 – Do It Yourself Salad Techniques and Salad Recipes

When I was writing last week’s posting, I was so preoccupied with the prospect of rising meat prices and discussing possible ways to cope with the problem, that I ignored my surroundings.   Read more

BEWARE RISING MEAT PRICES – Meat Buying Tips and International Meat Recipes

Sometimes it doesn’t feel good to be right. In fact, at times you’d rather be wrong and this is one of them for me. For nearly a year, I’ve been reporting predictions that meat, especially beef prices, were going to continue to go up. Just a few weeks ago, I warned that the usual pattern was to see them rise right after a holiday. Read more

July 4th Cooking Tips and Food Ideas and Recipes for a Liberating Holiday!

I got a phone call yesterday about the 4th of July, which left me staring at the calendar in total shock. I can’t believe it’s already high summer! The past weeks have flown by so fast that it seems the enclosed four holidays have tumbled over each other. Read more

Fathers Day Recipes – All About The Kabobs – Beef, Chicken and Seafood

Ask anyone in the restaurant business the difference between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day and they’ll reply that reservations are needed for the first one. Funny, in a time when most women work outside the home,  couples share chores and the majority of men know their way around a kitchen, the perception persists that women should be taken out and men be served a special dinner in  their “castle.” Read more

Some Recipe suggestions for leftovers with roasts – Chicken Turkey and Beef

The favorite meat choices for December holiday roasts are beef and poultry. I’ll be dealing with the other meats in the future, but now, I’m just giving a couple of options aside from the usual stews, stir fries and frittatas. These are company friendly, and not time consuming. Read more