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Easy Gazpacho Recipe

Posted on 6/23/2007 by grubgirl

When you wake up in the morning in San Francisco and it’s already warm and the fog has burned off, you know it’s going to be a hot one. Gazpacho (or “gaspacho”) is a perfect recipe for cold tomato-based vegetable soup. It tastes better the more you let the pureed vegetable flavor blend together. I recommend at least an afternoon.

I always use my friend Chris’ recipe from many years back. I saw a similar gazpacho recipe posted on Allrecipes.com, submitted by Leia.

Thanks to Chris & Leia, here it is, with modifications listed:

INGREDIENTS

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J. Lo’s Quick and Easy Chicken Enchilada Recipe

Posted on 6/20/2007 by grubgirl

Over at men’s lifestyle blog, Kineda, author Tami Ng shares Jennifer Lopez’s lunch secret. She brown bags it! J. Lo has her own easy enchilada recipe for when you’re on the run. With all due respect and props to Tami and Jennifer, here’s the recipe:

Jennifer Lopez’ Easy Chicken Enchilada Recipe

Ingredients:

  • A whole wheat tortilla
  • Mixing bowl (preferably microwave safe)

    • For the filling:

  • 4 oz cooked shredded chicken breast
  • 1/4 cup light sour cream
  • 2 tbsp shredded lowfat Chipotle cheese
  • 1/4 cup pico de gallo
  • 1/8 cup enchilada sauce
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Easy Banana Bread Recipe – With Sour Cream

Posted on 6/19/2007 by grubgirl

I came back from my camping trip with some fresh-but-badly-bruised bananas. Those bruised bananas were perfect candidates for banana bread.

I had some leftover sour cream in the refrigerator, and happened upon a banana bread recipe in Allrecipes.com (my favorite recipe site for realistic, quick, and easy recipes.)

The bread turned out perfectly moist (not raw or undercooked near the bottom part of the cake) and was loved by all.

With all due credit and respect to whoever Cathy is who submitted this, here goes.

Cathy’s Banana Bread

INGREDIENTS

  • 1 cup mashed bananas
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Cilantro Pesto Sauce Recipe

Posted on 6/14/2007 by grubgirl

I bought some cilantro for use with Chinese cooking. (Cilantro comes from the Coriander plant. The same plant is thus sometimes called coriander, or Chinese parsley.)Cilantro (aka coriander) Plant

The herb is very strong, so I had about 80% of the bunch left and didn’t know how else to use it. Gina suggested that I make a pesto sauce with it. “But wait, isn’t pesto made with basil? And I don’t have any pine nuts in the house,” I thought to myself.

However, I found an easy Fabulous Cilantro Pesto recipe on Allrecipes.com. It required cilantro, and walnuts or pecans. Leftovers from countless pecan pie bakeoffs gave me the pecan supply.

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