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Meat Dishes Soups & Stews

Shepherd’s Pie, Deconstructed

Dinner tonight came together really easily.  We had some Daube in the freezer, a beef stew from Southern France, from a dinner several weeks ago when I made a double batch of the stew.  I thawed that in the refrigerator and it only needed to be reheated tonight.  The littlest chef and her Daddy made baked potatoes while I was on my way home from work.  And I steamed some frozen mixed vegetables with a little butter & thyme.  Voila!  A deconstructed Shepherd’s Pie was born!

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Meat Dishes Salads

A Near East Inspired Meal

While the citizenry of Egypt is working through a tumultuous week sure to shape its future, we recently dined on a meal that was loosely inspired by the Near East — ginger & garlic spiced venison meatballs (Egyptians would surely use lamb) with a curried yogurt sauce, a middle eastern salad of lettuce, radishes, cucumbers, carrots & red cabbage, and some vegetable brown rice pilaf.  For dessert, we had a scoop of mango sorbet with the first Florida strawberries of  the season. This was a fresh, relaxing meal for us, which only underscored our wishes for peace and liberty in all of Egypt.

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