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For those of you new to my blog, I thought I should let you know what my mission is. I am working my way through Rachael Ray's 365: No Repeats cookbook. It is my goal over time to prepare all of the recipes in this book. At the pace I am going, it may take me 5 years, but I am practical enough to realize that there is no way that I can cook every single night of the week, as well as purchase all the ingredients for every recipe every night and still keep up the mortgage payments! I hope you are inspired to get into the kitchen and try some new recipes yourself. Your comments are always welcome and I appreciate you stopping by. May the Lord bless you all!

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Recipe 71


Recipe 197
About-15-Minute Soup with Spinach, Artichokes, and Tortellini
Matt rating ***

Ingredients used:

EVOO
White mushrooms
Onion
S&P
Artichoke hearts
Chicken stock
Refrigerated tortellini
Fresh spinach
Parmigiano-Reggiano
Crusty bread

This recipe was "souper" easy and yummy, pun intended! Yes, it was 95 degrees outside today, but I needed an easy recipe because I had a swim class to get to with my daughter. Matt is not a big soup fan, so I highly doubt we will ever see a 5 star rating out of a soup. I would have given this one about 4 out of 5. The good thing about Matt not being a soup fan? I get more leftovers!

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Mandy
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Night 70


Recipe 48
Sausage and Spinach Pastry Squares with Cherry Tomato-Arugula Salad
Matt rating *****

Ingredients used:

EVOO
Sweet Italian sausage
Yellow onion
Fresh sage
S&P
Puff pastry
Dijon mustard
Frozen chopped spinach
Lemon
Parmigiano-Reggiano
Cherry tomatoes
Red wine vinegar
Shallot
Flat-leaf parsley
Arugula

Matt and I both LOVED this dinner. Thankfully we ended up taking half of it to some friends, otherwise we would have eaten it all and been miserably full! Matt called it a hot pocket - I would upgrade that title to a grown up hot pocket. It was definitely smacky!

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Mandy
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Night 69

Recipe 176
Chicken in a Fresh Tomato and Eggplant Sauce with Spaghetti
Matt rating ***1/2

Ingredients used:

Coarse salt
Spaghetti
EVOO
Eggplant
Chicken tenders
Yellow onion
Garlic cloves
Coarse black pepper
Red pepper flakes
Cherry tomatoes
Flat-leaf parsley
Parmigiano-Reggiano
Crusty bread

Sorry, forgot to take a pic for this one! Due to the tomatoes and eggplant, this wasn't a favorite of Matt's. I thought it was pretty good, and I would consider it a pretty healthy dish as well. I used the whole wheat spaghetti which added another level of healthiness in my book!
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