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  • Grilled Lemon-Caper Chicken

     This is one of my wife's favorite dishes. It's sort-of a cross between lemon-pepper chicken and chicken piccata. Tasty and easy to put together. When we are in the mood for a little lighter version, we skip the sauce. The chicken stands alone pretty well.
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  • Jerry’s Dijon Vinaigrette

     This is our everyday salad dressing. Our typical dinner salad consists of mixed greens (not from a bag or plastic box!), tomatoes, some vegetables (cucumber, radish, snow peas, carrots - whatever is fresh), and an avocado when they are in season. For Salade Niçoise, I increase the amount of ...
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  • Marcella Hazan’s Chicken Cacciatore

     My mom made Chicken Cacciatore when I was a kid, and I remember liking it a lot. To be fair, there were very few foods that I didn’t like, a trait I took with me into adulthood. Sadly, I don’t have her recipe. So, when I got the urge to make this dish a few weeks ago, I turned to the best: ...
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  • Farmers Market Bounty

     Today's bounty from the Laguna Beach Farmers Market. I go pretty much every Saturday morning and buy almost all of our produce for the week. The market is an Orange County certified farmers market, which means that the vendors can only sell what they actually grow, and if they say "organic" they ...
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  • “Making do” dinner tonight

     Another "make do" dinner tonight. Frittata with red onions, garlic, mushrooms, tomatoes, and a little parmigiano-reggiano. I let it partially set on the stovetop and then browned it up just a bit under the broiler. Garnished with fresh basil; served with our usual salad and some bread. The pan ...
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  • Plan? What plan?

     Sometimes we deviate from the plan, or there is no plan. Today being market day, the larder is somewhat bare, so last evening was supposed to be take-out night (at least in my feeble mind - did you know that communication is the bedrock of a marriage? I digress.), where we get something from the ...
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  • Salade Niçoise (sort-of)

     Dinner yesterday was our version of Salade Niçoise: butter lettuce, arugula, haricots verts, baby potatoes, tomato, olives, hard-boiled egg, and tuna, with homemade mustard vinaigrette. Arugula is not usually found in a "classic" Salade Niçoise, but I love arugula and we get it almost fresh-pic...
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  • Tuesday Dinner: Favorite Chicken; Salad Notes.

     Dinner on Tuesday: Grilled lemon chicken with lemon-caper sauce, grilled onion, steamed broccoli, and our usual salad. This chicken preparation is one of my wife's absolute favorites. I make it often - at least once every two weeks or so. I included a few photos so you can see how we build up ...
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  • Cedar plank salmon

     Dinner yesterday looks a lot like that from last week. This time the salmon is grilled on a cedar plank. The process is so easy: soak the plank in water for 2 hours or all day, place the plank on the preheated grill, when it starts to smoke place the fish (seasoned with salt and pepper) on the ...
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  • Dinner last night

     Dinner last night: Bison burgers, grilled corn on the cob, steamed broccolini, and our typical green salad with tomatoes, avocado, and mustard vinaigrette. I learned from Marcella Hazan's Italian cookbooks that in food preparation, like so many things in life, simple is better. So the bison burgers ...
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