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Fresh Gourmet Foods on a Budget - Deconstructing Packaged Foods
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Blue Cheese Stuffed Celery

The venerable vegetable is making a come back. Make Blue Cheese Stuffed Celery a star on your table. Continue reading →

Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole

Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole comes together quickly and is fancy enough for company. Continue reading →

Asian Cucumber Salad

This Asian Cucumber Salad is spicy and refreshing, perfect for your Asian feast, or just by itself. Continue reading →

Stove-top Smoker Highway Chicken

Would you love to smoke food but live in an apartment? This DIY stove-top smoker is the answer for chicken, pork, fish or whatever protein you want. Continue reading →

Seefood and Bows (Seafood and Farfalle)

Seefood and Bows (Seafood and Farfelle) is a seafood pasta salad with a light lemony dressing. Use whatever shellfish you like, make it your own. Continue reading →

Pork Burrito Salad

This Pork Burrito Salad starts off as a salad, then you can pick it up and eat it like a burrito! Continue reading →

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Fresh Food

We will show you how to make gourmet food on a budget, homemade so you know what is in it.
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From Soup...

Why buy that stuff in the can when you can prepare your own soups for half the cost and much better flavor.
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to Basil Pine Nut Pesto

We really like fresh foods at The Good Plate, and this Basil Pine nut Pesto can't be beat!
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"To become a good cook requires more than the blind following of recipe. It means to gain a knowledge of foods and how they behave and skill in manipulating them. The recipe by itself, helpful as it is, will not produce a good product; the human being using the recipe must interpret it and must have skill in handling the materials it prescribes." ~Ruth Berolzheimer, Director Culinary Arts Institute - American Woman's Cook Book

Blue Cheese Stuffed Celery

By arbpen | October 13, 2018 - 13:31 |October 13, 2018 Appetizers, Christmas, Easter, Seder - Holy Thursday, Thanksgiving
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Blue Cheese Stuffed Celery

The venerable vegetable is making a come back. Make Blue Cheese Stuffed Celery a star on your table. Continue reading →

Tagged appetizer, bitter herb, Blue Cheese, celery, cream cheese, no cook, Sour Cream

Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole

By arbpen | October 12, 2018 - 05:38 |October 5, 2018 Chicken and Poultry, Evening and Dinner, French, One Dish Casseroles
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Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole

Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole comes together quickly and is fancy enough for company. Continue reading →

Tagged chicken, ham, mornay sauce, Mushrooms, Pasta, roux, swiss cheese

Asian Cucumber Salad

By arbpen | October 5, 2018 - 05:32 |September 30, 2018 Asian, Salads
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Asain Cucumber Salad

This Asian Cucumber Salad is spicy and refreshing, perfect for your Asian feast, or just by itself. Continue reading →

Tagged cucumber, rice vinegar, sesame oil, soy sauce, Thai sweet chili sauce, white wine vinegar

Stove-top Smoker Highway Chicken

By arbpen | September 28, 2018 - 05:34 |September 3, 2018 Chicken and Poultry, Methods, Stove Top Smoker
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Stove-top Smoker Highway Chicken

Would you love to smoke food but live in an apartment? This DIY stove-top smoker is the answer for chicken, pork, fish or whatever protein you want. Continue reading →

Tagged brown sugar, chicken, garlic powder, Honey, Mustard, salt, wood

Seefood and Bows (Seafood and Farfalle)

By arbpen | September 21, 2018 - 05:51 |September 2, 2018 Friday Food, Pasta, Pescatarian, Salads
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Seefood and Bows (Sea Food and Farfalle)

Seefood and Bows (Seafood and Farfelle) is a seafood pasta salad with a light lemony dressing. Use whatever shellfish you like, make it your own. Continue reading →

Tagged capers, crab, Farfelle (bow pasta), green onion, lemon, Mayonnaise, roasted red pepper, shrimp, Sour Cream, sun dried tomato, Sunny Paris

Pork Burrito Salad

By arbpen | September 14, 2018 - 05:42 |August 27, 2018 Mexican, Pork, Salads, Whole Meal Salads
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Pork Burrito Salad

This Pork Burrito Salad starts off as a salad, then you can pick it up and eat it like a burrito! Continue reading →

Tagged Avocado, Cheese, flour tortilla, pork, refried beans, salsa, Sour Cream
  • "You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients." ~Julia Child
  • "A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch." ~James Beard
  • "Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite." ~Auguste Escoffier
  • "Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life." ~Anthony Bordain
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