Our Best One-Dish Dinners – Bon Appétit.
I love one-dish dinners, especially during the weeknights when getting dinner on the table can sometimes seem hectic as you try to figure out what you can do. When you are able to get your meat and vegetables all in one place and have only one pot to clean up, it is a great night! Bon Appetit has put together 21 of their best one-dish dinners that you can try for any night of the week when you want a great meal with easy clean-up. Check it out!
Our Best Camping Recipes – Bon Appétit.
One of the favorite summertime (or really any time of year) pastimes is to go camping. Just because you are going camping does not mean you cannot eat a great meal along the way. All it takes is bringing the right ingredients, tools (don’t forget your cast iron pan) and a campfire and you can have fantastic meals during your trip. Bon Appetit has put together 25 camping recipes that are perfect for your next outdoor trip. Look them over and see what you can make next time you go camping. Check it out!
50 French Recipes, French Food Recipes | Saveur.
French cooking is considered among the finest and most elegant in the world. If you are celebrating Bastille Day and want to try your hand at some traditional French recipes, Saveur has posted 50 classic French recipes that you can give a try and reach new gastronomic heights. Check it out!
July 4th Recipes Recipes – NYT Cooking.
You can cook all kinds of great things to celebrate the 4th of July, even if you are not grilling or don’t have a grill of your own. The New York Times Cooking has put together fantastic July 4th recipes for everything from beverages to grilling to sides to dessert and the best sauces you can use as well. you’ll find all you need to make a great day of your summer celebration. Check it out!
Father’s Day Recipes to Make For Dad – Bon Appétit.
Father’s Day is just a few days away and coming up with a nice meal to treat Dad on Father’s Day would be a nice way to cap off the day. Whether it is making his favorite dinner, favorite dessert, ideal breakfast or just his favorite beverage you can make something and let him know he’s special to you. Speaking as a dad myself, it makes you feel great when others take the time to show and tell you their appreciation of what you do. Bon Appetit has put together 31 recipes that are perfect for Father’s Day so you can show Dad just how awesome he is. Check them out and have a Happy Father’s Day to all of the dads!
The mantra for me right now has been busy, busy, busy. It seems like every time I might have an easy day coming up something pops along to disrupt it. I guess it’s a good thing when it’s work because it at least means I am staying busy instead of trying to scrounge around for more work. Anyway, all of the busy days means trying to find fast and simple dinners more and more, especially when Michelle is away and it is just Sean and I for dinner. I try not to do takeout dinners if I can avoid it, which makes dinners like this one great because they are easy to do with just a few ingredients and cost less than getting fast food, pizza, Chinese or going to some other casual restaurant. This recipe is from Williams-Sonoma and is for stir-fried shrimp with snow peas and mushrooms and makes use of really basic ingredients and is done in under twenty minutes, including time to make some rice to go with it.
Stir-Fried Shrimp with Sugar Snap Peas and Mushrooms
2 pounds large shrimp, peeled and deveined
1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
1 tablespoon light soy sauce or tamari
Salt
2 tablespoons peanut oil or canola oil
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon peeled and grated fresh ginger
1/2 pound mixed fresh mushrooms, such oyster or cremini
1/2 pound sugar snap peas, halved crosswise
2 green onions, white and tender green parts, cut into 1-inch pieces
2 tablespoons rice wine or sherry
Fresh cilantro leaves, for garnish
Cooked white rice for serving
In a non-reactive bowl, combine the shrimp, sesame oil, soy sauce or tamari and 1 teaspoon of salt. toss the ingredients gently to coat the shrimp.
In a wok or large frying pan, heat the peanut or canola oil over medium-high heat until it is just smoking. Add the garlic, ginger and shrimp and stir-fry the ingredients until the shrimp are evenly pink on both sides, about 1 minute. Using a slotted spoon, remove the shrimp and transfer it to a separate bowl.
Add the mushrooms to the pan and stir-fry them over medium-high heat until they are softened, about 3 to 4 minutes. Add the sugar snap peas and stir-fry until the peas are a bright green, about 1 to 2 minutes. Add the green onions and the rice wine or sherry. Cover the pan and cook until the snap peas are crisp-tender, about 2 to 3 minutes. Return the shrimp to the pan and stir-fry the shrimp just until they are heated through, about 1 minute. Garnish the stir-fry with the cilantro leaves and serve with the white rice.
It is a great, fresh dish that comes together very quickly. Shrimp cooks very quickly when you stir-fry it so you want to watch it carefully so you do not overcook it and make it rubbery. The sauce gives some great flavor to the shrimp and the simple mix of the snap peas and mushrooms are all you really need to round out the dish. Sean and I both really enjoyed it and I was able to have the leftovers for lunch the next day and they seemed even better after the shrimp had a chance to really absorb the sauce. I think it would be great with chicken or pork as well or even just with some extra vegetables and use the mushrooms as your main source of protein.
That’s all I have for today. Check back next time for another recipe. until then, enjoy the rest of your day and enjoy your meal!
Leftovers That Don’t Taste Like Leftovers – NYT Cooking.
We all have leftovers from meals that we make and 9 times out of ten you have a hard time figuring out just what to do with them. Sure you can bring them for lunch but to try and turn them into another piece of a meal or main dish for dinner can be tricky. The New York Times Cooking has tried to help out with that with 65 recipes that make use of leftovers for all kinds of occasions and dishes. You can find some new ways to make use of those items you don’t know what to do with with just a bit of this inspiration. Check it out!
I know it seems silly that I have been clamoring for warmer weather for months and now that it is finally here what recipes do I offer up but stew recipes? Well, there are a couple of reasons for the stew recipes. First, I have been so busy with work lately that making a stew gives me a chance to put together a dinner rather easily and have it all in one pot, making things even better for all of us. Second, both of the stews I have made, this one today and the chicken stew yesterday, I kind of spring-like in their ingredients so they fit pretty well into the weather that we have been having lately anyway. lastly, this recipe today came in the last issue of Cook’s Country magazine and I just love to make their recipes, so I couldn’t resist it. This one is for a simple seafood and chorizo stew, making use of shrimp, cod and chorizo so you get the great flavors of the seafood combined with the heat and spiciness of the chorizo.
Seafood and Chorizo Stew
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra for drizzling
6 ounces chorizo sausage, quartered lengthwise and sliced 1/2-inch thick
1 onion, chopped fine
4 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon chopped fresh oregano
2 (14.5-ounce) cans diced tomatoes
1 (8-ounce) bottle clam juice
1 pound extra-large shrimp (21 to 25 per pound), peeled, deveined and tails removed
2 (6-ounce) skinless cod fillets, 1 to 1 1/2 inches thick, cut into 1-inch chunks
Salt and pepper
Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan set over medium-high heat until the oil is shimmering. Add the chorizo and the onion and cook until both are lightly browned, about 7 to 9 minutes. Stir in the garlic and 1 teaspoon of the oregano and cook until both are fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add the diced tomatoes and their juice and the clam juice, scraping up any browned bits from the bottom of the pan and bring the mixture to a simmer. Cook until the mixture is slightly thickened, about 10 minutes.
Pat the shrimp and the cod dry with paper towels and season each with salt and pepper. Gently stir the seafood into the stew and cook until the seafood is opaque and cooked through, about 5 to 6 minutes. Stir in the remaining 2 teaspoons of oregano and season the stew with salt and pepper to taste. Portion the stew into individual bowls and drizzle with a little bit of extra olive oil and serve.
This was a nice thick stew with lots of great flavor to it. love the combination of the shrimp and chorizo and I think if you wanted to leave the cod out altogether and just go with those two this would be a fine dish as well, though the cod adds a nice bit of contrast and some extra meatiness to the dish. I had bought some fresh made chorizo from the butcher and it was perfect, with just the right amount of heat to it. This stew goes great with some nice crusty bread to sop up the juices and I really enjoyed the leftovers for lunch the next day when the stew was even a little bit hotter because the chorizo had really melded into the dish by then. This is another great one pot meal you can have done in under 30 minutes so it is great for any weeknight when you need something easy to put together.
That’s all I have for today. Check back next time for another recipe. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day and enjoy your meal!
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