Another use for string beans If you have a lot of string beans in your garden and you’ve already made Greek String Bean Stew and Salade Niçoise, this is another good choice. How to make Beans and Beef Stir-fry: Break the tips off about a quart of string beans. Put a cup and a half of rice in …
Monthly Archives: August 2019
Bean burgers
Sometimes in the summer it just seems like burger time, maybe with corn on the cob, but what if you don’t want to eat beef? These bean burgers are great with ketchup, mustard, pickles, slices of tomato, lettuce, or whatever you like to put on your burgers. How to make bean burgers: After breakfast or …
Boston baked beans
Doesn’t it take forever to make baked beans? No, not really. You can start after lunch and have delicious baked beans in time for dinner, if you’ll be home all afternoon. There’s not more than half an hour of total work time involved, but it’s spread out over four hours. So yeah, it’s not something …
Avocado Soup
AVOCADOS ARE YUMMY Avocados are so delicious, you practically don’t need any other ingredients to make this delicious soup. It takes a few minutes, and you can leave it in the fridge all day and then serve it at dinner to your guests, without spending any time in the kitchen at all after they arrive. …
Avgolemeno Sauce
Caution: Raw Eggs As you will see by reading the recipe below, there’s no part of the recipe where you cook the eggs. Thus, there are raw eggs in this recipe. It is possible to get salmonella from eating raw eggs, so people with weakened immune systems like babies, old and sick people, and pregnant …
Quiche with Asparagus
Why Asparagus Quiche? It just happens that eggs and asparagus are both in season in the spring, so it seems like a happy coincidence that they taste so wonderful together! Spinach quiche is also very appropriate for springtime; in the summer, we usually have zucchini or tomato quiche. By fall, the chickens have stopped laying …
Poached eggs on Asparagus
Eggs Benedict? People were talking about Eggs Benedict one day, and I got to thinking about how I might adapt Eggs Benedict to be something we would actually eat. Now traditionally Eggs Benedict is an English muffin with ham or bacon on top, a poached egg on top of that, and Hollandaise sauce poured over …
Arancini – Cheesy Rice Balls
Arancini are usually food-cart street food, because they’re usually deep fried and most people don’t deep fry at home. But these are also good, and they’re just baked in the oven – no deep frying required, and you don’t have to go out to the food cart either! How to make arancini: This is a …