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Authentic Italian Restaurant - Albany, NY ??
I second Cafe Capriccio. Just had dinner there on Friday and it was great.
Suggestions for vegetarian weeknight dinners?
My husband is a vegetarian so we are mostly a no meat house. My favorite cookbooks for easy veggie recipes are by Jeanne Lemlin. I just had some veggie enchiladas for lunch from one of her books. Some other great recipes include tortellinis with broccoli, walnuts and olives, black bean chili, fettucine margarita and many others. Another great thing to have on hand is homemade refried beans. I make 2lbs of black beans and refry them all. Freeze them up in smaller containers and you can make huevos rancheros, quesidillas with beans and roasted veggies or just have them on the side to round out a meal. My all time favorite veggie meal was found years ago on the back of a Muller's elbow macaroni box. Very cheap, easy and a crowd pleaser.
Arizona skillet dinner
2 cloves garlic minced
2 tbs chili powder
one onion chopped
one green pepper chopped
one 28 oz. can tomatoes mushed in bowl with juice
one can kidney beans, drained and rinsed
2 cups of corn
1/2 lb elbow macaroni
Saute garlic and onion with chili powder. Add green pepper and cook a few minutes more. Add mushed tomatoes, kidney beans, and corn and simmer for 15 minutes. In the meantime, cook elbows. Add elbows to veggie mixture. Serve topped with monterey jack cheese. Your favorite homemade corn muffins make it a meal.
Homemade pretzels
I haven't made them in years but when my kids were little, making pretzels was my go to activity in the middle of the winter when the weather was terrible and there was nothing else to do. We would make eyeglasses, their initials and whatever else they could think of. Kept them busy for an hour or two and then they had something good to eat.
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About cobleskill
Location: Cobleskill, NY
About: Use cooking as my creative outlet between working in an IT department at a University and working on my masters.
Favorite foods: Love all the local produce we have up here in beautiful Schoharie County.
Last bite on earth: Corn and a macoun apple, both at their peak ripeness, even though that occurs at different times.
The American Hotel, http://americanhotelny.com/ and The Black Cat, http://blackcat-ny.com/index1a.htm in nearby Sharon Springs are both excellent.