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Comino Chili con Carne

By Lorraine Thompson2 Comments. Leave another...

This hearty slow-simmered chili includes comino—cumin—and other spices in addition to chili powder. The recipe below is spicy: adjust or eliminate red pepper and jalapeno for less heat. Comino Chili con Carne is great served with rice and corn bread or tortillas. Kids love to ... [Read More] [2 Comments. Please leave another.]

Filed Under: Legumes, Meat, Recipes Tagged With: chili and beans, Comino Chili con Carne, hearty chili, slow-simmered chili, spicy chili

Toss-in-the-Bowl Lemon Garlic Dressing

By Lorraine Thompson2 Comments. Leave another...

You can throw the ingredients for Toss-in-the-Bowl Lemon Garlic Dressing right on top of your salad greens and toss. No clean-up! This quick dressing delivers powerful salty lemony flavor—delicious on mesclun, baby spinach or just about any other salad. Toss-in-the-Bowl Lemon ... [Read More] [2 Comments. Please leave another.]

Filed Under: Dressings, Recipes, Salads Tagged With: fast fresh salad dressing, Fast Lemon Olive Oil Dressing recipe

From-Scratch Sloppy Joes

By Lorraine Thompson15 Comments. Leave another...

My son, Noel, recently returned from a semester’s study in Europe. A food lover, he enjoyed wurst in Berlin, canard au printemps in Paris, blini and caviar in St. Petersburg, bouillabaisse in Marseille and pasta—what else?—in Rome. So for his first dinner at home I wanted to ... [Read More] [15 Comments. Please leave another.]

Filed Under: Meat, Recipes Tagged With: burger recipe, delicious homemade Sloppy Joes, From-Scratch Sloppy Joe recipe, grassfed beef, real Sloppy Joes

Cabo San Lucas Lime and Cilantro Grilled Grassfed Chicken

By Lorraine Thompson6 Comments. Leave another...

I’ve been addicted to limes ever since my youth when I took a road trip to Mexico. Twenty-some years and three children later the memory is still gloriously vivid. It was a long, dusty and—once past Tijuana—monotonous drive from San Francisco to Cabo San Lucas. My best friend ... [Read More] [6 Comments. Please leave another.]

Filed Under: Chicken, Recipes Tagged With: Cabo San Lucas Lime and Cilantro Grilled Chicken, grilled food, lime juice, Lime-grilled chicken, limes, memories of youth, Mexican limes, mexican recipe

Vichyssoise: Easy and Elegant Cold Summer Soup

By Lorraine Thompson9 Comments. Leave another...

On a warm Spring evening, nothing tastes more delicious than cold creamy potato Vichyssoise. This recipe is freely adapted from my mother's vintage 1970's cookbook, Soups for all Seasons. Please don't think about making Vichyssoise "healthier" by substituting milk for cream. ... [Read More] [9 Comments. Please leave another.]

Filed Under: Potatoes, Recipes, Soups Tagged With: cold soup, cold summer soup, Cold Vichyssoise, easy elegant cold soup, potatoe and leek soup, summer recipe, Vichyssoise recipe

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