Pasta Szechuan is a quick and easy weeknight pasta recipe that might bear some resemblance to Asian food if you stand far away and look at it in bad lighting. The recipe comes to me by way of Open House, a 1995 cookbook supporting the National Alliance to End Homelessness. A few recipes in Open……
Ingredient: large chicken breasts
Thai Chicken Pizza alla Shandi (Oregon, 2006, adapted)
Thai Chicken Pizza alla Shandi is a protein-heavy, vaguely Asian, sweet and sticky weeknight pizza. The recipe comes to my by way of Recipes from the Heart, a 2006 community cookbook from the church congregation my family attended. The recipe was submitted by a woman who has since moved and with whom our family was……
Instant Pot Chicken and Black Bean Soup (California, 2006, adapted)
Instant Pot Chicken and Black Bean Soup is a simple soup with Mexican sensibilities suitable for a cool weeknight. The recipe is one of many lovely soups found in the 2006 cookbook from Mother Teresa Maternity Home in Placerville, California. The home serves as a women’s shelter with a special emphasis on housing women through……