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Kitchen Garden
I’m going to repost some of the gardening posts from last year…. (From May 2009) So it’s time to get serious about gardening. Here’s some things I suggest for a great summer vegetable garden. This...
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Cold Soups: Chilled Mexican Soup
I’ve been experimenting with cold soups this month. This is one I enjoyed, though I cannot decide which preparation method is better. I took half the recipe, brought it to a boil, reduced heat and...
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Thursday Night Menu: South of the Border Edition
Okay, the What’s 4 Dinner crew is a bunch of invalids today. Feel better soon JeffW. I’m nursing a nasty burn on my arm, the product of not paying close enough attention while pouring soup into a...
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Chicken Enchiladas with Salsa Verde
These were fun and easy. I started out with the green salsa. Was at the grocery this morning and saw they had tomatillas in the produce aisle. I grabbed several, and a couple of poblano peppers while...
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Tacos and Enchiladas
These were fun and tasty. I had a couple of fresh poblanos I wanted to use up so I roasted them atop the stove over a burner and scraped off the skins. They went atop some chicken thighs that I...
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Tidbits
I made more roasted tomatillo salsa, and went ahead and roasted nearly everything this time. I only had a few tomatillos so the poblanos joined them. Also in the mix are 2 cloves of garlic, 1 seeded...
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Tidbits
The tomato garden is coming along pretty well, one plant has a problem that mystifies us, it isn’t thriving but the cause isn’t evident. We finally have a tomato that is nearly ripe, the first one...
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Chicken in Tomatillo Sauce
We really needed to find something to do with our tomatillos. I browsed through some recipes yesterday and saw that they would work quite well with onions in a thick sauce to go with chicken. I...
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Tomatillo Sauce with Onions
Spent the day yesterday mowing and cooking tomato juice down to can as sauce so the tomatillos we gathered sat in the sink overnight. I got to them this morning and chopped the lot. I added several...
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Chicken Enchiladas
These have chicken, sour cream, salsa verde, and Monterey jack. I was fooled by the packaging on the tortillas – they said yellow corn tortillas in the big print but the smaller line indicated they...
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Dinner Menu: Carne en su Jugo
I had big plans for cooking this week, which all went to hell by the end of today. So perfect time for a Men Who Cook/Guest Recipe. Tonight we have a guest menu from my friend Alton Gunn, who has...
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This was easy enough. I poached some chicken thighs in stock and then set them aside to cool. I found a pint jar of tomatillo salsa and added that to the broth, a quart jar of hominy, plenty of...
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