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Navy Bean Soup

Navy bean soup for dinner tonight.  This dish was another recipe from Cooking Light magazine.  The thing I like about this magazine is that it provides recipes that are healthy all around.  These aren’t fat free meals.  Rather, these are meals that are quite well-balanced.  Most shoot for a fat calorie content of 30% or

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It's almost Friday!!!

What a long week!  I’m really looking forward to the weekend.  Have to come up with a meal plan for the next week or two.  Not having been out to eat in nearly three weeks, I have to come up with some meals that will continue to keep me excited about not going out.  A

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Herb-Roasted Pork

Rosemary

Well, it was 4:00am this morning and I couldn’t sleep anymore.  Working 12-hour days the last three days has not left me much in the mood to cook from scratch.  However, I had pulled a pork roast out of the freezer on Sunday and it was now thawed and ready to go.  I

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Spice-Rubbed Pork Chops

This quick dish was absolutely wonderful.  The spice-rub forms a great crust on the top of your pork chop.  The warming flavors of coriander and cumin paired really well with the garlicky sweet potatoes and lemon-scented green beans.  I followed all of the side suggestions for this recipe.

Source:  Cooking Light, October 2009

Recipe: Spice-Rubbed Pork Chops

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Week of the tomato is over

Tomato – Courtesy of acobox.com

Well, Dale survived the week of tomatoes, garlic, and a bit of spice.  It’s not always easy living with someone that has stomach issues (Barrett’s Esophagus) but we survive.  As time goes on, we’ve learned how to modify recipes to meet the his current needs as well as when

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Meal Planning - Attack of the Tomato!

Now that we’re back in the saddle with working five days a week, it’s time to get back to regularly scheduled meal planning.  Having a pork roast in the freezer (self-cut from a whole pork loin!), I looked in one of my Gourmet Magazine Cookbooks for a recipe.  Found a great Hungarian-style pork recipe, Pork

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Pork Roast, Porchetta, Pernil

The past week has had several pork dishes demonstrated on various cooking shows.  I've seen porchetta made by Anne Burrell on her cooking show.  Pernil has been shown on a few different shows.  I started to think about the various pork roast variations by culture. 

Italy

Porchetta is a pork roast predominantly flavored by garlic and

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