Tag Archives: mushrooms

Stir-fried Spring Vegetables with Herbs de Provence

Produce sold in supermarkets is often transported across great distances and the result is that the produce gets stale and loses a lot of taste and nutritional value. Even if the produce actually looks good, it may not be fresh. Large scale producers (often multinational are involved here) over-fertilize, use GMO seeds and process their produce for it to...
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Rustic Curried Chicken, Mushroom and Fennel Stew

I usually draw inspiration from dishes made by others or those that I have eaten in restaurants or while traveling to a new place, but this stew came out of nowhere! I had some chicken thighs lying in the refrigerator and since I didn’t want them to go bad, I had to use it in something. Somehow I am...
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A Double Morel Feast

Last weekend I bought a few dried Morels from a vendor at our local farmer’s market and I was very excited about experimenting with them.  The only problem was they were just a handful of mushrooms (they cost an arm and a leg) and so I wanted to make use of them in a way that could get the...
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Stuffed Mushroom Caps

In any attempt to conserve money spent on grocery bills, I often buy bulk sized packages of meat. Most often I use part of the meat and then am left with a small quantity of remnant meat that is too little for a whole meal but then I don’t want to waste it either.  Some months ago, I had...
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Chicken Friand

A Dallas based faux-French chain of restaurants called La Madeleine,  first introduced Chicken Friand to my family. For years my children would want to go to this restaurant just to eat that one dish. They did not even want to try anything else – it was the only thing they ever tried there and it was the only thing...
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