These items from the box were my inspiration for my meal that night.
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A citrus salad and stuffed peppers. I used this recipe for the stuffed peppers with my usual various substitutions and/or deletions depending upon what my pantry held. Nothing fancy this time, just didn't add ground pork, sour cream or green onion tops and used chicken bouillon cubes instead of beef, and shredded cheese instead of jarred cheese. The stuffed peppers were much easier to make than I expected and also much tastier than I expected as I'm not a huge fan of peppers. I will definitely go back to this recipe to make stuffed peppers again.
The citrus salad was also very easy to make it just being the beautiful lettuce from the Arganica box, a grapefruit also from the Arganica box, and some canned mandarin oranges topped with a dressing made from red wine vinegar, lemon juice, honey, olive oil, salt and pepper (the dressing being from this recipe). I also had a lot of fun "plating" the salad. Trying to make food not only taste good but also look pretty is quite a challenging task. Hopefully my many years of incessant watching of the food network channel and seeing the many beautiful plates the chefs make will help me in this endeavor. One tidbit I have taken away recently is from Anne Burnell on the Worst Cooks in America. The first step in having a pretty plate is that your plated dish MUST be clean to look nice. Here was my finished product for the night.
The citrus salad was also very easy to make it just being the beautiful lettuce from the Arganica box, a grapefruit also from the Arganica box, and some canned mandarin oranges topped with a dressing made from red wine vinegar, lemon juice, honey, olive oil, salt and pepper (the dressing being from this recipe). I also had a lot of fun "plating" the salad. Trying to make food not only taste good but also look pretty is quite a challenging task. Hopefully my many years of incessant watching of the food network channel and seeing the many beautiful plates the chefs make will help me in this endeavor. One tidbit I have taken away recently is from Anne Burnell on the Worst Cooks in America. The first step in having a pretty plate is that your plated dish MUST be clean to look nice. Here was my finished product for the night.
| Recipe Links: | Stuffed Red Peppers |
| Grapefruit Salad and Dressing |
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