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Potato, Pepper & Broccoli frittata
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Potato, Pepper & Broccoli frittata

This is a quick and easy meal especially when you’re looking for breakfast for dinner. In fact this dish has become a bi-weekly staple. Love it because it cleans out the frig, makes many meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) anyway the other day we were at Stop and Shop and they had those mini potatoes buy one get one free deals. I grabbed a bag of small Yellow potatoes and one of the mixed colors. made the cubing easier they were already small.

Ingredients

About 1.3 lbs. 2 bags of mini potatoes

1 Vidalia onion chopped

1 head of broccoli (375g)

1 red pepper

1 teaspoon smoked paprika

8 large farm fresh eggs

1/3 Cheddar cheese and 2/3 cup Cheddar Cheese

How

  1. Preheat the oven to 400ºF
  2. Drizzle 1 tablespoon of olive oil into an ovenproof non-stick frying pan on a medium-high heat.
  3. Scrub potatoes and chop into ½” dice, adding to the pan as you go.
  4. Trim, finely slice and add 1 bunch of scallions. Deseed, finely slice and add 1 red pepper. Add to the pan
  5. Season with a pinch of sea salt and black pepper, add 1 teaspoon of smoked paprika, then cook for 15 minutes, or until golden, stirring occasionally. Slice the head of broccoli apart into bite-sized florets, adding to the pan for the last 5 minutes.
  6. Crack 8 large eggs into a bowl and beat together, grate in 1/3 cup of Cheddar cheese and season with salt and pepper. Mix together well.
  7. Pour the egg mixture, swirling to coat the base of the pan.
  8. Grate over the remaining 2/3 cup of Cheddar and cook for 2 minutes, then bake for 10 minutes, or until golden and set.
  9. Slide the frittata out onto a serving board and cut into wedges.
Potato, pepper & broccoli frittata
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Potato, pepper & broccoli frittata

This is a quick and easy meal especially when you’re looking for breakfast for dinner.

Ingredients

About 1.3 lbs. Maybe 2 good size Yukon gold potatoes

1 bunch of scallions

1 head of broccoli (375g)

1 red pepper

1 teaspoon smoked paprika

8 large free-range eggs

1/3 Cheddar cheese and 2/3 cup Cheddar Cheese

How

  1. Preheat the oven to 400ºF
  2. Drizzle 1 tablespoon of olive oil into an ovenproof non-stick frying pan on a medium-high heat.
  3. Scrub potatoes and chop into ½” dice, adding to the pan as you go.
  4. Trim, finely slice and add 1 bunch of scallions. Deseed, finely slice and add 1 red pepper. Add to the pan
  5. Season with a pinch of sea salt and black pepper, add 1 teaspoon of smoked paprika, then cook for 15 minutes, or until golden, stirring occasionally. Slice the head of broccoli apart into bite-sized florets, adding to the pan for the last 5 minutes.
  6. Crack 8 large eggs into a bowl and beat together, grate in 1/3 cup of Cheddar cheese and season with salt and pepper. Mix together well.
  7. Pour the egg mixture, swirling to coat the base of the pan.
  8. Grate over the remaining 2/3 cup of Cheddar and cook for 2 minutes, then bake for 10 minutes, or until golden and set.
  9. Slide the frittata out onto a serving board and cut into wedges.
Pepper and Cheese Lasagna
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Pepper and Cheese Lasagna

So I came home and on the counter was an old yellowed recipe that we haven’t seen for years. Lyn was having a craving and laid out the dish, box of lasagna pasta and had already prepared the spinach and broccoli. This is an interesting recipe everything but the initial pasta cooking is made in the microwave. You can tell the age by the one step that was rotate pan half way through, if you remember way back there was either no tray and it never rotated during cooking.

Ingredients

6-9 lasagna noodles

2 carrots shredded

1 small onion chopped –Steve Note: I used red I had half of one left over

1 red or green pepper, cut into thin strips

10 ounce of frozen chopped broccoli or spinach thawed and drained. Steve Note: Lyn had prepared a combo of each but used fresh.

I added 4 mushrooms sliced.

1/2 tsp of salt

15 ounce container of ricotta cheese

Optional 1 egg beaten Steve Note: like to add this to ricotta binds it together.

2 cups of shredded Fontina, Swiss or other cheese. Steve Note: Did not have enough mozzarella or provolone so I grabbed a stick of cheddar and shredded it. BTW take minutes and is way cheaper than buying already shredded. The cheddar turned out a nice choice went well with the veggies.

Lyn’s pasta sauce Steve Note: The recipe did not call for but I put small amount on bottom and top (before the last topping of cheese).

How

  1. Prepare noodles conventionally as package directs; drain, separate and set aside.
  2. in 12×8″ backing dish cook carrots, onion and pepper covered on high 6-8 minutes until tender-crisp stirring half way through. Spoon into bowl and add broccoli. In separate bowl combine egg, and salt and a real good pinch of dried basil.
  3. thin layer in baking dish then top with three noodles. top that with half the ricotta cheese mixture and top that with 1/3 veggie mixture then 1/3 shredded cheese.
  4. Repeat except except set aside the shredded cheese
  5. Cook covered on high for 7-10 minutes until hot through
  6. Sprinkle remain cheese cook 3-5 minutes until cheese is melted
  7. Let stand for 10 minutes and serve

Makes 8 servings

Chopped Salad with Creamy Balsamic Dressing
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Chopped Salad with Creamy Balsamic Dressing

My Dad used to call it Israeli Salad said he learned it from and Indian in the war but he said that about most everything. Anyway it was Wednesday which is salad night at our house so I open the fridge and went to town.

Pear, kale, lettuce, brussels sprouts, mushrooms, zucchini, green pepper, broccolini, celery, carrots, radishes, roasted chickpeas, bacon and I added some mayo to the balsamic vinegerete dressing we had.

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Kathy’s Broccoli Salad

Every year we all look forward to the company BBQ at Bruce’s  good food, drinks and company. Horseshoes was replaced by a similar game that you toss bean bags and instead of a pole it’s a hole. Stewart’s kids make a beeline for the pool while the rest of us watch and chat. I loved when Stewart’s youngest son tried the dark chocolate coated ice cream, “ DISGUSTING” as he handed it to his mother, his face must have resembled mine at that age the first time I tasted semisweet cooking chocolate, not what I expected. Anyway, Bruce’s wife Kathy made the best broccoli salad I have ever had, it disappeared very quickly.

Thanks Kathy’s this was great!!

She said that she does not follow the amounts exactly and to me that is what cooking is all about tweaking to your likes.

brocolli salad

Salad

  • 1 lb of bacon – cooked and broken into pieces
  • Broccoli maybe 1 to 2 heads
  • 12 oZ white cheddar cheese- shreddedDressing¾ cup sugar

Blend in blender

  • Add to all other ingredients ½ hour before serving
  • 4 TBSP Cider Vinegar
  • 2 cups Mayo

Blend in blender

Add to all other ingredients ½ hour before serving