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Braised Beef & Braised Mushrooms With Zucchini Salad & Baked Sweet Potatoes

  This Tuesday our weekly menu plan called for the following. Protein: Organic beef Vegetable: Zucchini Side: Sweet potatoes   Organic Braised Beef In Red Wine Sauce   To be fair, when beef is on the menu I almost always try to find a nice piece of un-frozen organic steak that can be stretched to […]

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French Onion Soup with Braised Beef, Broiled Salmon & Roasted Vegetables

  Aaah the weekend, break out every piece of cookery! This Saturday our menu plan called for French onion soup. Problem is, I really didn’t want to deal with a separate seething hot bowl of soup on our plate, especially with two young girls at the table. Keeping with the French theme however I had […]

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Braised Beef Stew with Gluten Free Biscuits

This Saturday our menu plan called for the following. Protein: Organic Beef Vegetable: Lots of them Side: Gluten Free Biscuits   Organic Braised Beef Stew Almost every weekend I think to myself, “have I braised anything too recently to do it again?” This weekend the craving was too strong and I simply had to make […]

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Braised Beef Stew with Mushroom-Stuffed Peppers and Roasted Potatoes

Overview … My weekly menu plan for this Saturday called for: Protein: Beef Shoulder Starchy Side: Potatoes Vegetable: Sweet Peppers Weekends at our house almost always have a main dish that requires slow cooking of some sort, and beef chuck shoulder has to be one of my all time favourites in that category. Braising is a time-consuming […]