My Favorite Recipes and Restaurants

Categories: Main Dish

• Pasta with Fresh Tomatoes and Pine Nuts

  Pasta with Fresh Tomatoes and Pine Nuts
  From:
  Everyday Food
  Prep: 5 minutes
  Total: 15 minutes
  Ingredients
  Serves 4
  * Coarse salt and ground pepper
  * 2 medium tomatoes, diced
  * 1 garlic clove, minced
  * 2 tablespoons olive oil
  * 8 ounces angel-hair pasta
  * 2 tablespoons pine nuts, toasted if desired
  Directions
  1. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Meanwhile, combine tomatoes, garlic, [...]

• Mediterranean Chicken

  Mediterranean Chicken
  Ingredients
  2 boneless, skinless breasts of chicken
  2 cloves minced garlic
  3/4 cup thawed, drained frozen spinach
  1/4 cup white wine
  4 ounces. Feta cheese, cut into 4 pieces
  3 tablespoons Olive oil
  1 can chopped drained Tomatoes,
  1/2 cup finely chopped onion
  1 teaspoon.dried basil
  Directions
  Cut a two inch pocket into the thickest part of each chicken breast.
  Stuff each pocket with spinach and [...]

• Lemon Herb Roasted Chicken

  Lemon Herb Roasted Chicken
  (Crockpot)
  3-4 lb chicken
  1/2 cup chopped onion
  2 Tbs butter
  juice of one lemon
  1/2 tsp salt
  1 Tbs fresh parsley (or 1 tsp dried)
  1/4 tsp thyme
  1/4 tsp paprika
  Rinse chicken, pat dry, and remove any excess fat. Put the onion inside the chicken and rub the skin with butter. Put the chicken in the crockpot. Squeeze the [...]

• Campbell’s Beef Taco Salad

  Campbell’s Beef Taco Salad
  From: Campbell’s Kitchen
  Prep/Cook Time: 15 minutes
  Serves: 4
  Ingredients:
  1 lb. ground beef
  2 tbsp. chili powder
  1 can (10 3/4 oz.) Campbell’s® Condensed Tomato Soup
  8 cups salad greens torn in bite-size pieces
  2 cups tortilla chips
  chopped tomato
  Sliced green onion
  Shredded Cheddar cheese
  Sliced pitted ripe olives
  Directions:
  COOK beef and chili powder in skillet until browned. Pour off fat. ADD soup [...]

• Suzanne’s Salmon Sauté with Pine Nut Couscous

  My inspiration for this recipe came from my husbands favorite chicken dish. The story behind this recipe is that hubby and I were on a business trip staying in a hotel with a kitchenette.    The kitchenette is very small so we do not have an oven to bake in.  We do have a cook top [...]

• Herb-Crusted Salmon with Spinach Salad

  Dijon mustard gives the topping a nice kick and balances the richness of the salmon fillets. Lemon juice in the spinach salad offers another bright note. Prep: 10 minutes Total: 25 minutes Ingredients
  Serves 4
      * 3 [...]

• Mediterranean Quinoa Salad

  Prep Time: 15 Minutes Cook Time: 20 Minutes Ready In: 35 Minutes Servings: 8 "Chicken breast cubes, feta cheese, and kalamata olives combine with quinoa in this salad that is equally good warm or cold." [...]

• Thai Barbecued Salmon

     The other day I was looking for a different way to make salmon.   We have plenty recipes that I use regularly for salmon.   My husband stumbled across the recipe for Thai Barbecued Salmon.   For the benefit of those who do not subscribe to the magazine I will post the recipe here as well.   It [...]

• Braised Sirloin Tips

  Braised sirloin tips

  Ingredients
  2 tablespoons shortening
  2 lbs. beef tips cut into 1 inch cubes
  1 10-1/2 oz. can beef consomme
  1/2 cup burgundy (or cranberry juice)
  2 tablespoons soy sauce
  1 clove garlic, chopped finely
  1/4 teaspoon pepper
  1/4 teaspoon onion salt
  2 tablespoons cornstarch
  1/4 cup water
  4 cups cooked rice

  Preparation
  Melt shortening and brown meat in a large skillet. Stir in consomme, [...]

• Beef Pasta and Mushroom Soup

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  Beef Pasta and Mushroom Soup
  Prep Time:35 min
  Start to Finish:35 min
  Makes:6 servings
  Ingredients
  1 lb lean (at least 80%) ground beef
  1 medium onion, chopped (1/2 cup)
  6 cups hot water
  1 box Hamburger Helper® beef pasta
  1/2 teaspoon dried basil leaves, crushed
  1/2 teaspoon salt [...]