Category Archives: QUICK MEALS

Deli-style Chicken Salad Sandwich

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This is standard fare in my household.  I almost always have boneless chicken breasts at home and so am able to hustle this up at short notice when my teenaged son and his friends are hungry.

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1.    One large boneless chicken breast 2.    4-5 carrots 3.    4-5 celery stalks 4.    ½ of a medium red onion 5.    One cup of light jarred...
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Baba Ghanoush

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While traveling in Egypt with my family, I fell in love with the cold vegetarian mezze dishes that we were served in every part of the country.  Every restaurant that we ate in had freshly baked pita bread that they served with various kinds of tart pickled vegetables and thick vegetarian dips like Baba Ghanoush and Hummus.  Even though...
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Warm Artichoke Spread

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I love this spread over warm crunchy crostini made from fresh chewy bread for a light lunch or with water crackers as an appetizer at dinner parties.  Like most people, I like artichokes but I don’t enjoy the cumbersome process of cutting and cooking fresh artichokes, so I use canned ones for this recipe – they work wonderfully well...
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Kumquat Marmalade

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The British left us Indians with a lingering taste for marmalade and I grew up eating Orange Marmalade on buttered toast for breakfast every morning.  I love the bitterness of orange zest and when I was introduced to Kumquats in the US, I experimented with making Kumquat Marmalade and the result was an immense success. I love it on...
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Mexican Beef Turnover

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This is a quick easy meal that I have often resorted to using when my teenaged kids have unexpectedly brought a whole troupe of their friends without giving me any prior notice.  I always have ground beef and puff pastry in my freezer and they are easy to defrost using the microwave and while they are thawing I have...
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