Green chile pork salad started out being a leftover pork meal, but is worth making as a first run meal. Meat salads take center stage for a number of meals at our house. For a couple more meat salads, try: Beef Tenderloin Salad or Teriyaki Beef Salad. The dressing for pork salad pictured below, is…
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Chicken Sausage Soup
Soup is at the top of our menu list for 2 weeks now. Not only is it an ultimate comfort food, it’s a pretty versatile meal in our house, and never boring. The Instant Pot that I got for Christmas is working overtime these days! However, soup is easy to make on the stovetop or…
Soy Braised Chicken
Soy braised chicken is one of several bad ideas I’ve had lately. It looked like something we’d like, and in fact, Don loves it. I think it’s salty. However, I added it to fried rice, and it’s delicious. Even if you don’t eat the chicken, the braising liquid is like black gold. It’s fabulous in…
Sausage and Potato Crustless Quiche
I’ve done so many frittata recipes that I’ve decided to step-up my game, at least in vocabulary! Essentially, the Sausage and Potato Crustless Quiche is a frittata, but the French version (quiche) seems classier today. I don’t know how frittatas keep falling off my radar. They are delicious, quick, and easy. Start with scratch ingredients…
Smoked Meatloaf
So, one of my recent food experiments was with meatloaf. Don loves meatloaf, and when I mentioned Smoked Meatloaf, he acted like he had found the promised land. I just figured it would have to turn out really good, and it certainly did. Now, I know not everyone has a smoker, but if you do,…


