2 tablespoons butter½ pound mushrooms, sliced1 medium onion, chopped½ cup chopped green pepper½ cup thinly-sliced celery2 cloves garlic, minced1 can (about a pound) peeled tomatoes, broken up½ teaspoon salt½ teaspoon sugar½ teaspoon thyme½ teaspoon Tabasco2 bay leaves8 skinless chicken thighs 2 cups cooked rice Sauté mushrooms, onion, pepper, celery, and garlic in the butter until… Continue reading Creole Chicken Thighs
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Premium™ Turkey Chili (Nabisco)
I saw on the back of the Premium Crackers box recipe for chili that promised it would be “Fast!” It looked like a reasonable recipe, so I tried it without putting too much stock in the result. But you know with ingredients like these, you can hardly go wrong. So it came out great and… Continue reading Premium™ Turkey Chili (Nabisco)
Cowpoke Chili (Marlboro Chili Book)
This is that somewhat more authentic cowboy chili from the Marlboro Chili Book. Smoked bacon, dried beans, onions, garlic, and dried chili peppers are central to it. (Just the other day I wondered to myself why it was that I had whole coriander seed in the cabinet. I realized today that this recipe is the… Continue reading Cowpoke Chili (Marlboro Chili Book)
Headquarters Chili (Marlboro Chili Book)
Brought to you by the marketing department of tobacco giant Phillip Morris USA and Marlboro Cigarettes: “The Marlboro Chili Book.” It intended to sell you on the manly virtues of getting the “Marlboro Chili Kettle”, readily available from the company. My dad never bought one, and I took the recipe book. It was about 10… Continue reading Headquarters Chili (Marlboro Chili Book)
Tex-Mex Bean Pot (with vegan alternative recipe)
5 cups cooked beans (from cooking 1 pound dried pinto, great northern, or lima beans)or4 cans cooked beans, drained and rinsed (14.5 ounces each) ½ pound spicy bulk sausage (Jimmy Dean, for example)or½ pound vegan sausage alternative (Gimme Lean, for example) 1 Spanish onion, chopped 2 large green peppers, chopped in 1 inch pieces 1… Continue reading Tex-Mex Bean Pot (with vegan alternative recipe)
Lentils Monastery Style (Diet for a Small Planet)
I’ve been cooking this one for so many years that I have made it my own, so much so that for a long time I was not sure anymore what book I got it out of. But I found it again in my 1980’s paperback edition of “Diet for a Small Planet,” the seminal vegetarian… Continue reading Lentils Monastery Style (Diet for a Small Planet)
Fagioli all’Ucelletto (Beans With Sage).
This is the original version of a recipe I called elsewhere “Our Favorite White Beans to Top Our Polenta With”, which is a lot quicker. Both versions go well on polenta. 1 pound dried white beans, such as cannellini, soaked and drained15 fresh sage leaves, or ½ teaspoon dried2 garlic cloves¼ cup olive oil (extra-virgin… Continue reading Fagioli all’Ucelletto (Beans With Sage).
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