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9-25: Juicy Grilled Meat Patties

Jamie Martin Group 09: Ground Meat & Sausage, Section 2: Main Courses August 3, 2014July 6, 2020boneless, brushed, burgers, canola oil, cornstarch, dairy-free, dinner, eggs, fairly easy, food processor, gluten-free, grilled, ground meat, ground pork, inexpensive, lunch, marjoram, pan-fried, paprika, parsley, party food, pork, pork shoulder, salt, sautéed, thyme, untested, yellow onions

This recipe was cooked in tandem with an earlier recipe, 9-31: Savory Turkey Patties. We had some different dietary preferences in our dining group that evening, so I used the opportunity to knock out two recipes at once. 🍔

I think it’s interesting that they refer to the burgers as “meat patties” and not “pork” patties or burgers. Just a thought.

2-6: Greek Salad

Jamie Martin Group 02: Salads, Section 1: Appetizers & Starters August 2, 2014February 18, 2020black olives, black pepper, cucumbers, dinner, easy, egg-free, Feta, gluten-free, goat cheese, Greek, green bell peppers, inexpensive, lunch, olive oil, red onions, salads, salt, side dish, summer, tossed, untested, vegetables, vegetarian, vinegar, white beans, yellow onions

My options for cooking have been limited lately, so I’ve been gravitating towards simpler recipes in order to keep it manageable, yet active. You really can’t get much simpler than 2-6: Greek Salad.

This is a great recipe for summer–most of the ingredients are in season and it’s super light. We made it for dinner instead of lunch as suggested, but I’m sure the folks at Simply Delicious won’t mind.

4-17: Crispy Potato Pancakes

Jamie Martin Group 04: Potatoes & Vegetables, Section 1: Appetizers & Starters July 18, 2014October 6, 2020all-purpose flour, breakfast, butter, canola oil, Channukah, chicken fat, crispy, dinner, eggs, fairly easy, favorites, food processor, fried, gluten-free, grated, half-and-half, inexpensive, Jewish, latkes, lunch, melted, milk, pan-fried, pancakes, peeled, potato pancakes, potatoes, rendered, salt, shredded, sriracha, untested, vegetarian

4-17: Crispy Potato Pancakes is one of the last recipes I cooked in the kitchen with the blue tile counters and yellow walls–-our travels have taken us elsewhere. However, even though the backgrounds will change, the project lives on.

These are essentially latkes. Very delicious latkes, I may add. If you have a food processor, these are a breeze.

4-19: Twice-Baked Potatoes

Jamie Martin Group 04: Potatoes & Vegetables, Section 1: Appetizers & Starters July 8, 2014October 13, 2020baked potatoes, black pepper, butter, Cheddar, cheese, chipotle, chives, Christmas, curry powder, dinner, dry mustard, egg whites, egg yolks, eggs, fairly easy, favorites, food processor, gluten-free, herbs and spices, inexpensive, lunch, Monterey Jack, mushrooms, nutmeg, parsley, party food, potatoes, red bell peppers, revisited, roach motel apt, salt, sautéed, side dish, twice-baked, vegetables, vegetarian, whipping cream, XMAS 08, yellow onions

Here’s another potato recipe for you. I had a LOT of potatoes to cook. This was the complement to 11-16: Indian Fried Fish, which I posted a few days ago.

This one got stuck to the page before it in the book–hence the destroyed-looking card. You can still see the important parts though–these are mighty tasty. My notes indicate I made it in a chipotle-style a few Christmases ago–we’ll do it legit for this one. For science. 🔬

6-22: Crispy Chicken Drumsticks

Jamie Martin Group 06: Poultry & Game, Section 2: Main Courses July 7, 2014June 17, 20201998 dinner, all-purpose flour, black pepper, bread crumbs, breaded, butter, canola oil, carrots, chicken, coated, crispy, deep fryer, deep-fried, dinner, dredged, drumsticks, easy, fried, fried chicken, Hutton house, inexpensive, lunch, pan-fried, paprika, party food, peeled, revisited, salt, sautéed, sliced, squash, summer squash, tender-crisp, vegetables, white bread, yellow onions, zucchini

Who doesn’t like drumsticks? Vegetarians, I suppose. But this is not a recipe for them. Book 1, Group 2 (Main Courses), Subgroup 6 (Poultry & Game) gives us 6-22: Crispy Chicken Drumsticks. This was cooked in tandem with 4-21: Herb-Roasted Potatoes.

Drumsticks were on sale, so drumsticks you will get. I think this is one of the ones I was making before I went out of town a few weeks ago, but I’ve been a bit behind, so the details have escaped me a bit. Not that it matters to you, anyway. 🙂

11-16: Indian Fried Fish

Jamie Martin Group 11: Fish & Seafood, Section 2: Main Courses July 5, 2014July 7, 2020all-purpose flour, bananas, blanched, bread crumbs, breaded, butter, canola oil, Caribbean, cashews, catfish, coated, cod, crème fraîche, curry powder, dinner, dredged, dry mustard, easy, eggs, fail, fairly expensive, fish, fish filets, flounder, fried, grouper, haddock, halibut, Indian, leeks, lemons, lunch, nuts, pan-fried, peeled, plantains, rockfish, salt, sautéed, seafood, sliced, sour cream, spice blends, turmeric, untested, West Indian, white bread, whitefish, yellow mustard

Another bit of real life distractions, but I refuse to let this die. Back to it, with an interesting dish: 11-16: Indian Fried Fish. 🐟

Um, okay. “Indian” is being used liberally here, as far as I can tell. It was an okay dish, but didn’t exactly conjure up images of India. This seems more like West Indies/Caribbean “Indian” than India “Indian”.

3-13: Velvety Carrot Soup

Jamie Martin Group 03: Soups, Section 1: Appetizers & Starters June 16, 2014March 14, 2020allspice, appetizers, autumn, blender, carrots, chicken bouillon, chicken broth, chopped, crème fraîche, diced, dinner, dried spices, easy, fall, food processor, garnish, Glendale apt, gluten-free, half-and-half, inexpensive, lunch, milk, nutmeg, purée, salt, side dish, soups, sour cream, thyme, untested, vegetable broth, vegetables, vegetarian, yellow onions

I think one of my favorite parts of old cookbooks is the adjectives they use to describe their dishes. I like to imagine a team of writers/cookbook jockeys staying late into the night, trying to dream up the perfect word to engage some adventurous cook into what would be an otherwise mundane-sounding recipe. How do you make carrot soup sound exciting?

That’s where “velvety” comes in. I present–3-13: Velvety Carrot Soup.

Oh, Simply Delicious. I admire you for trying to get me so excited about your carrot soup, that you put smiley face dollops of sour cream on your camera bowls.

When you have a LOT of carrots to get rid of and you’re looking for something velvety, Simply Delicious has you covered.

8-18: Tangy Beef Rolls

Jamie Martin Group 08: Beef, Section 2: Main Courses June 15, 2014July 2, 20201980s, all-purpose flour, appetizers, beef, black pepper, boneless, braised, butter, chopped, chuck roast, cranberries, creamy, dinner, fairly expensive, fairly hard, garnish, gravy, green bell peppers, green onions, jam/jelly/preserves, leeks, lunch, minced, mushrooms, pared, parsley, pork shoulder, red bell peppers, round steak, roux, salt, sautéed, tangy, toothpicks, untested, veal, vegetable broth, whipping cream

Catching up after a few weeks of IRL obligations. Let’s get back to it.

This was one of the 4 recipes cooked in the batch I mentioned in 17-28: Pound Cake. I was making a large amount of food to store up while I was gone for a week, and one of those recipes was 8-18: Tangy Beef Rolls. Sounds deliciously 80s.

Book 2, Group 2 (Main Courses), Subgroup 8 (Beef) gives us card #18: Tangy Beef Rolls. How do you resist something beef-related that describes itself as “tangy”? Mine didn’t come out as classy as the one in this picture, but it was still definitely edible. And somewhat tangy.

12-6: Seasoned Pasta Toss

Jamie Martin Group 12: Pasta & Rice, Section 2: Main Courses May 30, 2014July 27, 2020basil, boiled, breasts, cheese, chicken, cooked chicken, cooked shrimp, crab, dairy-free, dinner, easy, fettuccini, garlic, ham, healthy, herbs and spices, inexpensive, Italian, linguine, low heat, lunch, minced, olive oil, Parmesan, parsley, party food, pasta/noodles, salt, seafood, side dish, spaghetti, tagliatelle, tossed, untested, vegan, vegetarian

I jumped several sections ahead a few weeks ago when I needed to make a pasta side dish for something (I don’t even remember what at this point). I don’t have this group scanned yet and I procrastinated on scanning the card–oh well. 🌿

We find 12-6: Seasoned Pasta Toss in Book 2, Group 2 (Main Courses), Subgroup 12 (Pasta & Rice). I still have a ton of parsley in my freezer and gluten-free rice pasta in my pantry, and it’s time to clean house.

Too bad it turned out to be less than impressive. It’s my fault, but still.

7-2: Pork Chops with Tomatoes

Jamie Martin Group 07: Pork, Section 2: Main Courses May 29, 2014June 19, 2020black pepper, blanched, broiled, butter, Cheddar, cheese, cilantro, deglazed, dinner, dried herbs, egg-free, fairly easy, fairly inexpensive, gluten-free, green beans, green onions, Italian parsley, marjoram, pan-fried, pork, pork chops, salt, seared, snipped, string beans, Swiss, tomatoes, untested, vegetables

Okay. This one sounds weird. It looks weird too. But you know what? It actually worked out okay. I had some green beans from the CSA box that desperately needed to be used, so here’s what we did with them.

Pork chops + tomatoes + green beans + sliced cheese sounds odd. Book 1, Group 2 (Main Courses), Subgroup 7 (Pork) gives us 7-2: Pork Chops with Tomatoes. I had pasta and salad ready on the stand-by in case this went south, but luckily I didn’t need them.