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What’s In Your Fridge?

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Imagine this – it’s 6pm on a weeknight, your family is leaving for vacation in a day or two so you haven’t been to the grocery store — there’s no sense in a stocking an empty house. Or maybe you’ve been really busy and haven’t had time to go to the grocery store and don’t really feel like doing it right now. Or maybe you’re a Passanante’s Home Food Service customer, but your latest order hasn’t arrived yet and you would rather do anything other than go wait in grocery store lines. No matter what your reasoning is, you haven’t been to the store in a while, it’s a work night, you’re hungry,and there’s “no food in the house.” I’m sure that wasn’t too hard to imagine because we have ALL been there more than once.

The truth of the matter is that unless you haven’t been to the grocery in a really really really long time, or if you just moved in to your place – there is almost never “no food” in the house. The real problem is typically that you don’t know what you can make with the food you do have. Enter, MyFridgeFood.com.

MyFridgeFood.com

With MyFridgeFood.com you can select the random assortment of ingredients you have from their comprehensive list and find tons of recipes you didn’t know you could make with them! Not only does this website help you out when you’re in a pinch and don’t want to go shopping, it’s also an awesome way to make sure you use up ingredients before they expire. Who doesn’t love saving money?

We’re always on the lookout for great websites and tools like this to share with all of our food delivery customers and would love to hear about some of your favorites! Head over to our Facebook page and share a link with us – we’d love to feature it in a future blog post.

 

Recipe: Veal Piccata

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We’re excited to debut the first veal recipe on OrganicMeatsandVeggies.com! Passanante’s Home Food Service is best known for the convenience of our home food delivery service, which brings delicious, high-quality foods right to your door so you can easily prepare healthy meals at home. While day to day meal ingredients are our bread and butter, we also offer spectacular specialty foods including a wide assortment of seafood, hearty bison, and of course – delicate veal.

This recipe for Veal Piccata makes for a beautiful presentation, perfect for a special occasion meal enjoyed in the comfort of your own home!

Veal Piccata Recipe

Photo Courtesy: thejoysoflifeingrid.blogspot.com

Ingredients:

  • 2 Pieces scallopini of Veal
  • 1/4 cup dry vermouth
  • 2 Tablespoons corn oil margarine
  • 2 Tablespoons of flour
  • 1 Tablespoon lemon juice
  • 1 Clove of garlic
  • 1/2 Lemon sliced
  • Capers

10 Steps to Delicious Veal Piccata:

  1. Pound veal with mallet
  2. Dredge lightly in flour, shaking off excess
  3. In skillet, melt tablespoon of corn oil margarine
  4. Crush garlic clove and place in skillet until golden grown
  5. Discard clove
  6. Please veal in skillet and cook quickly, until brown (about 1-2 minutes per side)
  7. Remove from heat and place on serving dish
  8. Add remaining margarine, vermouth and lemon juice
  9. Simmer 3 minutes scraping bottom of pan to loosen drippings
  10. Pour sauce over veal, garnish with lemon slices and capers & ENJOY!

Recipe: Chicken Cacciatore

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This recipe for Chicken Cacciatore is the real deal and tastes like the an old Italian family recipe.  Also known as Hunter Style Chicken, this meal is the perfect combination of dark and light meat chicken and when paired with delicious tomato, mushroom, onion, garlic and oregano it’s enough to make anyone’s mouth water.

Feel free to serve over rice – as called for in our recipe, or if you’re feeling a little adventurous spring for cheesy risotto, mashed potatoes or a few cups of your favorite pasta. Chicken Cacciatore is one of those meals that gets better each time you prepare it and further customize it to your family’s tastes. This recipe has been known to include additional ingredients like celery, crushed red pepper, zucchini, basil and red bell pepper, so feel free to get a little creative!

Photo Courtesy: myhappycasa.blogspot.com

Photo Courtesy: myhappycasa.blogspot.com

Ingredients (serves 4):

  • 2.5-3 Pounds broiler chicken
  • 2 Cups onion, thinly sliced in rings
  • 1/2 Cup green bell pepper, sliced
  • 2 Cloves garlic
  • 1 Can tomatoes, drained
  • 1 (8-ounce) Can tomato sauce
  • 1 (3-ounce) Can sliced mushrooms, drained
  • 1/4 Cup shortening
  • 1 Teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 Teaspoon oregano
  • 1/2 Cup all purpose flour
  • Rice

How to Prepare Chicken Cacciatore:

  1. Disassemble the chicken by cutting into two breasts, two wings, two thighs and two legs.
  2. Wash all pieces and cut dry.
  3. Melt shortening in a large skillet over medium heat.
  4. Combine salt, oregano, and flour.
  5. Coat chicken with mixture, then cook in the skillet 15 to 20 minutes until light brown.
  6. Remove chicken and set aside.
  7. Add onion rings, green pepper and garlic to skillet.
  8. Cook and stir over medium heat until onion and pepper are tender.
  9. Stir in tomatoes, tomato sauce and mushrooms.
  10. Add chicken to sauce and cover tightly.
  11. Simmer 30 to 40 minutes or until chicken is fork tender.
  12. Serve over rice.

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Recipe: Hot Sandwich To Die For

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Trying to plan out your menu for Father’s Day? This next recipe isn’t exactly on everyone’s diet, but hey – everything’s okay in moderation… right?! Prepare these hot sandwiches with corned beef or pastrami and serve alongside a big bowl of homemade baked potato soup – fully loaded for dad, of course. These sandwiches are super filling so prepare to have leftovers, and for best results reheat in oven or toaster oven so they don’t get soggy. OR you can always eat it with the a fork the next day if you have to use a microwave.

Stay tuned to our Facebook page for information about our Father’s Day contest and how you can WIN a goodie package full of delicious hormone-free Passanante’s Home Food Service meats!

Hot Pastrami Sandwich Recipe

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Ingredients:

  • 1 Loaf of rye bread
  • 1 to 1.5 Pounds deli slices corned beef or pastrami
  • 1 Stick melted butter
  • 1 Chopped yellow onion
  • French’s yellow mustard
  • Horseradish sauce from deli
  • 1- 1.5 Pounds baby swiss cheese, sliced
  • 1 Can sauerkraut

How to prepare Hot Pastrami Sandwiches:

  1. Take your loaf apart in sandwich pairs and lay them out.
  2. In a skillet melt the butter and toss the onions until clear. Add about 3 tablespoons of mustard.
  3. Load both pieces of bread with cheese and corned beef or pastrami.
  4. On one piece, spread the onion mixture with the horseradish sauce, and finally layer on sauerkraut and “close” the sandwich together. Layering the sandwich with the wet ingredients in the middle will keep it from getting soggy.
  5. Optional: Lightly brush a little melted butter over the tops of the sandwiches for added crispiness.
  6. Place sandwiches in baking pans and bake at 400 degrees until cheese melts and bread begins to turn golden brown.
  7. Serve with homemade baked potato soup and enjoy.

 

Recipe: Sweet and Sour Pork

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This next recipe is the perfect answer to those impossible-to-shake Chinese food cravings we all get from time to time – Sweet and Sour Pork! Prepare a flavorful feast and enjoy the piece of mind that goes with serving up a healthier (but just as tasty) version of this take-out favorite. Our recipe serves four, so double the ingredients for a dinner party or if you want to enjoy leftovers for lunch.

Sweet and Sour Pork

Ingredients:

  • 1 Pound boneless pork cut in 1-inch cubes
  • 1 (20-ounce) Can pineapple chunks in juice
  • 1 Small green pepper, cut into 1-inch squares
  • 1 Clove garlic, crushed
  • 1/2 Cup dark corn syrup
  • 1/4 Cup cider vinegar
  • 2 Tablespoons ketchup
  • 2 Tablespoons soy sauce
  • 2 Tablespoons oil
  • 2 Tablespoons cornstarch
  • 2 Tablespoons water
  • 4 Cups white rice

How to Prepare Sweet and Sour Pork:

  1. Heat oil in a wok or heavy skillet over medium heat.
  2. Add pork and brown on all sides.
  3. Add pineapple with juice, corn syrup, vinegar, ketchup, soy sauce, and garlic.
  4. Bring to a boil; reduce heat; simmer uncovered, stirring occasionally for 10 minutes or until the pork is tender.
  5. Add green pepper.
  6. Mix cornstarch and water together and stir into pork mixture.
  7. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
  8. Boil for 1 minute.
  9. Service over hot rice and enjoy!

 

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