Category: Beef
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Grape Leaf Dolmades The Greek Way
I’ve always considered dolmades the perfect food – what other single food item provides you with a vegetable, a carb AND a protein in one tidy little packet? I’m not exaggerating when I say that I have probably eaten hundreds, if not thousands of them in my life. Making them requires some time and patience…
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Greek Meat & Potato Pie
One of the things I love most about traveling to other countries is discovering the unique street foods that define the flavors of that country. After a long day of traveling, most people would probably get to their hotel, call in room service and call it a night. But I’m a simple girl at heart…
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Honey Ridge Farms & My Memorial Day Steaks
I was holding on to my last little bit of Blood Orange Honey from Honey Ridge Farms as if it were a friend I would not see again for a long time. OK, that might be just a little more dramatic than I intended it to be, so let’s just say that I really wanted…
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An Unconventional Roast Beef
I know many people these days are working hard to stretch their food budget to cover the ever increasing costs of just about everything. I also know that many of my trips to the market have left me shaking my head and wondering how families with children can even make ends meet these days. I…
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Really Sloppy, Sloppy Joe’s
Holidays are a great time for getting together with friends and family, and more than likely, you’ve got quite a bit of food leftover that will be taking up room in the fridge for the next couple of days. Sounds like a food reinvention intervention is in order to keep the family interested at…
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Skirt Steak Salad with Bandiola Steak Essence
It was another one of those crazy days and also the beginning of a harried week. I hadn’t had a chance to go shopping over the weekend, so provisions were low. As I drove home I was thinking about what to make for dinner so I wouldn’t have to make a pit stop at my…
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Flaky and Meaty Empanadas
So it’s Cinco de Mayo and your making the traditional tacos, guacamole, salsa, maybe some nachos or those irresistible cheesy tostadas that leave you licking your fingers and smacking your gums. And if you are washing all of it down with a few beers or margaritas, life is good. Well, did you ever consider making empanadas?…
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Cheeseburger Soup
Because of my busy work schedule, I usually don’t have time to watch much television, and when I do, it’s usually one of the few food programs I like to follow. One of them is Guy Fieri’s DDD, which is not only entertaining but full of delicious recipes and inspiration. One day I happened to…
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German Pancake Soup (Flädlesuppe)
Whenever I have some time, I make plenty of stock and portion it out into containers and keep it in my freezer. I even put some into ice cube trays, so when I’m making a dish that could use a little more depth, I toss in a cube. I have shared my recipe for a…
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An Adventure With Navajo Fry Bread
Imagine waking up on a lazy Saturday morning with your best laid plans in hand only to find that your dear old refrigerator/freezer has apparently met a terrible fate overnight and appears to have called it quits…for good. No amount of shaking or wiggling of cords or button pushing could re-awaken my sleeping Whirlpool beauty,…
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Celebrate Summer With Stuffed Vegetables (Yemista)
I vividly remember my trip to Greece in 1977. I went as a 14 year old and came back as a 15 year old with a renewed love for the Mediterranean. I was lucky to have the chance to spend 6 glorious weeks with my aunt Litsa, my uncle George and my cousins Mary and…