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Lasagna Casserole Easy To Prepare

Ring in the New Year with an Easy-to-Prepare Meal:  Lasagna Casserole For many families, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day are filled with time spent with family:  playing board games, making jigsaw puzzles, watching football, or taking a brisk hike or two.  The last thing you want to do is spend hours in the kitchen laboring over a big dinner.  Here’s an easy recipe for lasagna casserole everyone will enjoy—plus, it can made ahead of time and warmed up whenever your troops are ready to take a break from the festivities to eat. Ingredients: 3 tablespoons olive oil 1...
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Celebrate the New Year with Tenderloin Steaks

Celebrate the New Year with Tenderloin Steaks Making it through the end of 2020 and welcoming the beginning of 2021 is cause to rejoice!  And what better way to celebrate new opportunities than with a delicious dinner featuring tenderloin steaks from TBS. What makes tenderloin steaks “tender?”  This cut of beef earned its name because it comes from the short loin (technically called the “psoas major”) of the cow.  This particular muscle does not bear any weight of the animal so it has less connective tissue that makes the meat exceptionally tender. Here is a simple meal you can make...
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Beef Stroganoff with Prime Rib

Use Prime Rib Leftovers to Make a Delicious Beef Stroganoff When it comes to mouth-watering meals suited for cold winter days, beef stroganoff is on the top of the list.  With Russian heritage, beef stroganoff or бефстроганов, is a hearty dish made with sautéed beef served in a rich sour cream-based sauce.  What you may not have known is that leftover prime rib can be used for this recipe to create a fast and easy cold-weather dinner. Ingredients: 8 ounces of egg noodles 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 shallot – minced ½ tablespoon garlic – minced 2 tablespoons flour ½...
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The Feast of the Seven Fishes

Start a New Tradition this Year with the Feast of the Seven Fishes Spend Christmas Eve with a traditional Italian-American family and you’re in for a meal that makes most Thanksgiving dinners look like a snack.  Families have come together to share a meal comprised of an extravagant seven seafood dishes since this holiday gained popularity in the early 1900s among Italian immigrant families in the United States.  There are no set standards for what makes up those dishes and can include anything from seafood pasta to baked salmon or even Manhattan clam chowder. The history of this meal is...
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Chicken Cordon Bleu Quesadillas

Got Leftovers?  Here’s a New Way to Use them Up with Chicken Cordon Bleu Quesadillas After the holidays, you’re bound to have a refrigerator full of leftovers.  Sure, there are a lot of traditional ways to use leftover turkey or ham—for example, add your meat to a big pot of split pea soup.  But wouldn’t you like to surprise your family with a new recipe this year?  If so, chicken cordon bleu quesadillas are just the thing to use up leftover chicken (or turkey!) and ham in an innovative dish. Ingredients: About ¾ pounds of leftover chicken or turkey--preferably white...
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Sausage and Lentil Soup

A Warm and Easy Winter Meal:  Sausage and Lentil Soup There’s nothing like walking in from a cold winter’s day and being greeted by the savory scents of soup wafting from the kitchen.  Sausage and lentil and soup creates a hearty meal guaranteed to warm your soul. Soups are perfect for busy families, too.  They’re easy to prepare and can be served whenever it's most convenient for each individual person.  So no matter if the family is busy with holiday shopping or getting back from the slopes, a nice pot of soup is the perfect meal to serve your entire...
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Cheesy Sausage Egg Casserole

Easy and Delicious Brunch:  Cheesy Sausage Egg Casserole One of my favorite parts of the holidays is enjoying a lazy morning with family and friends with an easy-to-prepare brunch for everyone to enjoy.   Whether you are hosting a meal in your home or looking for a dish you can bring to enjoy elsewhere, a cheesy sausage egg casserole is something everyone will love. This recipe is extremely simple to make, so it’s a perfect option for kids who want to be involved with meal preparation, too.  If your morning will be rushed, you can brown the meat ahead of time—just...
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Non-Traditional Holiday Meal

Celebrate a Non-Traditional Year with a Non-Traditional Holiday Meal It seems very little in 2020 has been “normal.”  Sporting events are happening without attendees.  New movies are being released as downloadable rentals.  Children are attending school at least partially from home.  Work meetings happen online.  And blowing out birthday candles??  Not this year! So why should Thanksgiving be any different?  During a year when we’re all thinking “outside-the-box,” it’s the perfect time to expand our horizons beyond just turkey for a delicious holiday meal.  Here are a few novel ideas from our staff at The Butcher Shop: Braised Short Ribs...
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Bacon Wrapped Scallops

I am Thankful for Bacon-Wrapped Scallops Let’s be honest.  One of the biggest benefits of living in Southern Oregon is access to fresh seafood from the coast.  TBS makes it easy to enjoy the freshest seafood around almost any day of the week.  One of my absolute favorites is bacon wrapped scallops….yumm! Scallops are more than 80% protein, low in sodium and saturated fats, and absolutely delectable.  Encircle them with bacon and add a side of oven-roasted asparagus, and you have a mouth-watering meal in minutes. The Butcher Shop receives fresh seafood shipments every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday so you...
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