Tag Archives: Cheese

Artichoke and Spinach Cream Sauce for Pasta

Oh, who am I kidding, this sauce is good for much more than just pasta. While it did work a treat over sausage and cheese ravioli, just picture it drizzled over a nice chicken paillard – mebbe sprinkled with a … Continue reading

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Black Bean & Beef Enchiladas

This is one of those recipes that just sore of ‘evolved’ from when I started it until it was time to put it all together. It started out as refried black beans and beef quesadillas but, it was just after … Continue reading

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Michigan Cheese Spread

Technically, the very nice lady and former coworker who gave me this recipe – years ago, now – calls this a cheese ball; but it has always worked better for me as a spread. Pretty frikkin’ fantastic with veggies, but … Continue reading

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Maple Pecan Cream Cheese

It was a beautiful autumn Sunday morning, and we had absolutely nothing planned for the day… well, except for Rich to prepare for two weeks of bidness travel; so, I resolved to take a bit of the sting of his … Continue reading

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NOLA Soup

It was early August, and we found ourselves slouching about New Orleans. “Why?” While I will admit that the time of year was not optimal for a couple of Northeastern Illinois guys to visit; my husband was presenting at a … Continue reading

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Tots ‘n Sausage Casserole

Sure and all, this is technically a breakfast casserole (think strada, but waaay better), but we thoroughly enjoyed ours at dinner on a drizzly Sunday evening. See… I had a half of a bag of thawed tater tots sitting in … Continue reading

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Lasagna Soup

Well… technically, this is Pasta Soup – since I was fresh out of lasagna noodles. I did have high fiber elbow pasta, though, and that worked a treat. Since I was going with the high fiber pasta, I figured I’d … Continue reading

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Meatloaf Quesadillas

Oh, bother! I had made my new fave no-gluten meatloaf (with oatmeal crumbs replacing the bread), and I kinda overdid the veggies added, yielding me a tasty, pretty healthy (with all those extra veggies and all), but very crumbly meatloaf. … Continue reading

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Èpinard Maude

A kindofa fancy name for Louisiana-style creamed spinach (nicely seasoned with zippy pepperjack cheese and stuff and absolutely none of that nutmeg malarkey). Also an hommage to my first car, a spinach colored totally terrible AMC Hornet, previously driven by … Continue reading

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Bagel and Sausage Strata

My sister has more folk over than even us, so when she told me about this wicked tasty onion bagel and pancetta strata recipe she found in Rachael Ray’s magazine, I hunted it down on the interwebs and decided to … Continue reading

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