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Thursday 24 September 2015

Simply Recipes: 3 New Recipes - Slow Cooker Shredded Chicken and more...

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Slow Cooker Shredded Chicken

So, what's your favorite burrito filling? While I'm sometimes tempted towards chile verde or pulled pork, I usually pick the spicy shredded chicken.

No need to go out for this though, it's easy to make at home, especially with a slow cooker! 10 minutes prep, slow cook for hours, then shred with a couple of forks. Perfect for tacos, burritos, tostadas, tamales, or even a taco salad.

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Pasta Pomodoro with Shrimp

What's your go-to quick midweek meal? Mine often involves angel hair pasta, because it cooks in only 3 minutes. My other standby is shrimp, which also cooks almost as fast.

In this Pasta Pomodoro with Shrimp we are using both, and tossing them with quickly cooked fresh tomatoes (that's the "pomodoro" part), garlic, and basil. You could use canned tomatoes, but if tomatoes are in season, and they are ripe and juicy, you can use them with hardly any extra time.

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Baby Bok Choy with Yellow Bell Peppers

There are certain routines in our family for which I am unendingly grateful. One is that at the dinner table there is always a green vegetable of some sort. I may not have loved some veggies as a child, but as an adult, I crave them. If not for the fact that the other members of my family love their greens too, I could easily eat an entire serving bowl of pretty much any of the veggies that regularly grace our table.

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Thursday 17 September 2015

Simply Recipes: 6 New Recipes - Chicken Mulligatawny Soup and more...

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Chicken Mulligatawny Soup

Have you ever had mulligatawny? Best soup ever! It's basically a curry soup, most often made with chicken, vegetables, apples, and rice. Not only is it absolutely delicious, it's the perfect example of how one culture acquires food from another, and adapts it to their own taste.

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Eggplant Caviar

Please forgive the exalted name of this simple dish. Like its black-eyed pea cousin Texas caviar, "eggplant caviar" has nothing to do with salty sturgeon eggs.

It is so named I suppose for several reasons. You place a dollop of it on a cracker to eat, it has somewhat of a tiny bumpy texture, and the taste is exquisite. It's not remotely fancy, but one can pretend, right?

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Classic Meatloaf

My sweetheart came over to my parents the other day for dinner. He wasn't exactly thrilled when he heard we were having meatloaf, and insisted on taking only a very small piece. All that changed the minute he took his first bite. (You should have seen the expression on his face—that look of amazement? priceless.)

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Apple Crostada

I planted an espaliered apple tree when I moved into my house a few years ago. It came with apples on it, and seemed so full of promise.

For the next 3 years the tree flowered, but alas no apples. Not until this year, when I spied 7 beautiful apples on its lowest branches. Hurrah! Finally!

At least until the raccoons got to them.

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Easy Buttered Noodles

Who doesn't love buttered noodles? The only problem I have with them is that I can easily eat them all if they're set before me.

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Corn Salsa

During the summer when corn is in season, I look for any excuse to buy it, it's so wonderfully sweet! We'll have it in chowder, salad, grilled, and of course, simply on the cob.

Corn also makes a fabulous salsa.

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Saturday 5 September 2015

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Apple Cobbler

September Newsletter and Announcing Simply Recipes Meal Plans

Is it me, or did our summer just whiz by? Labor Day is our last hurrah for the season. (Though doesn’t it seem odd that most kids have already been back at school for weeks?)

Right about now we start to notice the shift from summer to autumn here in Sacramento. The sun sets earlier. A breeze arrives to cool things off at night which makes it downright pleasant in the morning. Tomatoes that stopped growing entirely in the heat of August have come alive again, as happy with the weather as we are.

September is a great month for produce! Apples, eggplants, tomatoes, tomatillos, green chiles, basil, figs, green beans, and peppers are all in season. My parents’ apple trees are so full with Fujis and Granny Smiths my father has had to prop the trees up to keep the branches from breaking.

Apple Trees Sept 2015

Fortunately we have plenty of ways to make use of those apples. We make apple cobbler (pictured above), applesauceapple pie, baked apples, and my mom’s favorite apple slices. We’ll put apples into savory dishes too with chicken and apples in honey mustard sauce, waldorf salad, and slow roasted pork shoulder. (See more apple recipes here.)

If you happen to stop by my parents’ house? Good luck leaving without a bagful of something—apples, figs, plums.

We’re using up the last of our garden tomatoes. This Baked Chicken with Cherry Tomatoes and Garlic only needs 10 minutes of hands on time and goes great with hot buttered noodles. The dish creates a lot of juice from the chicken and tomatoes, which you can either reduce or use as a dipping sauce for crusty bread.

Baked Chicken Cherry Tomatoes Garlic

By the way, if you ever wondered what fruits and vegetables are in season when, here’s a Seasonal Produce Guide by Russ Parsons of the LA Times. The guide is geared to Southern California, but much of it will work for other parts of the U.S. If you have a question about what’s in season in your area, ask your grocery store’s produce manager. I always find them to be helpful.

September is also the month when people get busy. I spent many years as a Silicon Valley worker bee who got take-out most nights. Too busy to cook, or so I thought. The real reason I didn’t cook much in my younger years is that I didn’t know how to plan. That’s why I’m so delighted to announce that Simply Recipes has partnered with Gatheredtable.com to offer meal plans with recipes from Simply Recipes.

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Elise with Mary from Gatheredtable.com

According to my friend Mary Egan, the founder of Gatheredtable, “If you don’t plan, you don’t cook.” Or at least not as often you could. Meal planning helps make home cooking a habit. Planning will not only help you eat better (healthy home cooking instead of take-out), you’ll save money too, by not buying a bunch of ingredients that you don’t end up using.

The Gatheredtable service makes menu planning easy. You get four menu plans per week, which you can easily customize. Once you’ve set your plan, Gatheredtable generates a shopping list for you. You can keep track of your favorite recipes with the service too. Here’s the Gatheredtable page with more information, including a video showing how the service works. Please take it for a whirl and let me know what you think!

Finally, my sweetheart and I are headed off to France at the end of this month. He’s from Provence which is where we are going. It will be my first trip to Provence, and our first trip to France together. I hope to return with new ideas for Mediterranean inspired recipes to share with you.

Stay safe, cook and eat well, and have a great September.

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P.S. For those of you who replied to my last email, thank you, I love hearing from you, keep in touch!

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