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Best Scalloped Potatoes Ever! These Scalloped potatoes are so easy and perfectly cooked every time. Precooking the potatoes in the pressure cooker for just 4 minutes ensures the potatoes are evenly cooked. When I have baked scalloped potatoes in the oven starting with raw potatoes, the finished dish was a disappointment. The potatoes in the…
Eggplant Parmesan in the Slow Cooker This Eggplant Parmesan is an all-time favorite at our house. It is a fantastic vegetarian main dish and leftovers heat very well. It does take some prep work (salting the eggplant removes the bitter taste) but then it cooks for two hours in the slow cooker unattended. Then you…
The Big Change Over the past 10 days I have been neglectful of my blogging but it is because of new and exciting things happening in my life. After practicing medicine for 30 years in a Christian Health Center in Pittsburgh, I left my dear patients and coworkers to take some much needed time off. That was…
The Challenge- to use up all the food in the house- Day 18 Food used: 1 package boneless, skinless chicken breasts (from freezer). Leftovers from dinner party over the weekend including Roasted Garlic and Butternut Squash Cassoulet, Scalloped Potatoes and Creamed Cabbage Today was a day of rest. I reheated the leftover side dishes (see…
Creamed Cabbage: I was looking for something to do with ¾ of a head of cabbage. Since everything is better with a little cream added, I googled Creamed cabbage. Up came this recipe for creamed cabbage and it was indeed suprisingly delicious, the name given to the recipe by its creator. Also very simple and…
The Challenge- Day 17 Food used: 3 package boneless beef short ribs (from the freezer); Williams Sonoma Peach Whiskey Chipotle braising sauce, 3/4 head cabbage, CSA green beans, CSA apples Menu: Braised Boneless Beef Short Ribs, Scalloped Potatoes, Creamed Cabbage, Steamed Green beans, Roasted Garlic and Butternut Squash Cassoulet, Slow Roasted Plum Tomato Salad, Apple…
My daughter, Kristen, was vegetarian for a time in college. One year, when she was home for Thanksgiving, she was following a vegetarian diet. Being a physician, I always worried that she was not getting an adequate amount of protein. This dish was the protein part of her Thanksgiving meal. I found the recipe…
Chocolate Chip Cookie in a Pie: This pie is a must every year for Thanksgiving, along with the pumpkin pies. It tastes like a chocolate chip cookie in pie dough. It is best served warm with a big scoop of ice cream. If you are my husband, you gild the lily with chocolate syrup and…
Sweet Potatoes with streusel topping: Every year we celebrate Thanksgiving with my husband’s family. His sister Gail hosts the holiday at her home in Harrisburg. Everybody contributes to the spread and the sweet potatoes are one of the dishes I always bring. Our nephew Philip used to say these sweet potatoes were like getting…