Andrea’s Recipes

The food blogging community is very prolific and it’s pretty easy to find a recipe for just about anything if you dig around for a little while. This is a list of recipes from other blogs that we recently tried and are now family favorites.

Spanish Rice (Simply Recipes) - We’ve played around with this recipe [...]

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I love these warm pillows of goodness and my boys love watching them bake. As the dough puffs on the stone in the oven, the boys proclaim it to be “magic.” And when I take the rounds out of the oven, the boys are so excited they can’t keep their hands off them. They think [...]

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I really enjoy Indian food, especially a good southern style curry with coconut milk and some garam masala. Last year I came across a treasure trove of some particularly good masala from a spice shop in Norfolk (that has unfortunately closed it’s doors), and the exquisite aroma of this mix is intoxicating. It adds a [...]

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I saw this dish a few years ago on the old Food Network show Calling All Cooks. It looked so good that I made it the next day with a few modifications based on ingredients that I normally keep on hand. We prefer to use Tamari soy sauce, which has a rich flavor that seems [...]

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I used to order this dish at China House Restaurant in Saipan, and the combination of flavors grabbed me. Admittedly this is an Americanized version of Chinese broccoli beef, but I like the extra layer of flavor the tomatoes add. Don’t add them too soon or cook them for too long; otherwise, they will turn [...]

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