The Recipe Box

These have become my standards and go-tos and favorite recipes. While “What’s for Dinner” includes every new experimental dish I try (along with notes and reviews), recipes that make it here are tried & true, and you’ll see them referenced in weekly menus and as accompaniments to meals. Enjoy – you’re sure to love them!

Recipe: Boston Baked Beans

July 16, 2011

Remember how, once upon a time, my father had a retirement party?  Yeah, I thought you would remember that.  Well, one of my party planning ideas was that the food should start with appetizers and then move onto heartier foods as dinner time approached.  So Hubby and I (mostly Hubby) prepared Pulled Pork and this [...]

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Slow Carb Recipe: White Beans with Greens

July 14, 2011

When we got endive in our CSA share, I (0f course) went looking for a recipe.  I found the Epicurious recipe for White Beans with Bacon and Endive.  I thought it might work out, so I made it for dinner.  I didn’t have cannellini beans in a can, but I did have some dried white [...]

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Slow Carb Recipe: Tuna Lettuce Wraps

July 7, 2011

I was sitting around the house this afternoon, after actually being productive this morning (which was awesome). And I thought… “Hmmm. I’m hungry. I wonder what I should eat. Tuna sounds good. Like those tuna melts I made that one time. Except that I don’t eat bread right now… I’ve got it! Tuna Lettuce Wraps!” [...]

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Recipe: Cheesy Garlic Bread

July 1, 2011
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As part of my plan to over-complicate the plan for Dad’s retirement party, I added this recipe for Three-Cheese Garlic Bread from Epicurious to the plan.  But then, when I was preparing to put out the dinner foods (as opposed to the “snack” foods), I realized that we had way too much food.  That’s something I [...]

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Rosemary Lemonade: the perfect Summer Beverage for a Party

June 27, 2011

The first time I ever had Rosemary Lemonade was at the open house our wedding caterer held for potential clients.  It was refreshing and lovely.  I could have had some at our actual wedding, I suppose, but I was busy with the margaritas and champagne.  You can really only have so many beverages in one [...]

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Recipe: Roasted Asparagus

May 27, 2011

Zestful Gardens had fresh asparagus at the Proctor Farmer’s Market today, so I snatched a ton of it up, along with a dozen eggs. I had no idea what I was going to do with it, and we were headed to Port Angeles before lunchtime, so it needed to be something fast. Here’s my quick [...]

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Slow Carb Recipe: Red Beans (no rice)

May 25, 2011

Once upon a time, in 2005, Hubby (who was not yet Hubby at the time) came home to tell me that they had a new partner coming to his Starbucks.  He told me that someone was relocating from New Orleans (this was right after Katrina), and that this new person had evacuated with his Xbox [...]

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Slow Carb (ish) Sausage Stuffed Mushroom Reprise

May 22, 2011

Remember how I didn’t like my last attempt at a sausage stuffed mushroom recipe all that much?  Well, I sent an email out to Neighbor Gary, asking for his recipe.  He wrote back, and when I saw giant mushrooms and sausage while I was grocery shopping today, I couldn’t get the idea out of my [...]

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Recipe: Green Beans with Bacon

May 7, 2011

When Hubby did the grocery shopping this week, I told him to pick up some seasonal, fresh veggies.  He seemed to be confused, so I helped him out: “when you get to the produce section, there will be something that’s got a huge display and a bunch of sale signs.  Buy that.”  This week, it [...]

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Recipe: Kale Pesto

May 2, 2011

Remember how I don’t like kale unless it’s made into kale chips?  Well, I had a revelation this weekend: kale is delicious when it’s made into pesto.  I one time hid greens in regular basil pesto, but that’s kinda cheating, isn’t it?  This recipe originated with Katherine Deumling from Cook With What You Have by way of my sister’s CSA folks and it’s [...]

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