Category: How To
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How to Freeze Ground Beef
If you’re going to freeze ground beef, or other things, you want to have as little air as possible touching the meat. (Note: It does not affect the safety of the food, just the quality.) The vacuum sealer things help out with this, of course, and I bought one a few years back when I…
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Book Review: Family Feasts for $75 a Week
I’ve been remiss in my book reviews lately. I’ve enjoyed the Owl Haven blog for quite some time and was thrilled when I heard Mary Ostyn had a cookbook coming out. I didn’t even try to get a review copy but went out and bought a copy as soon as I saw it at our…
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Turkey, Spinach and Carrot Wraps
My eldest packed this for lunch for her first day of school. We bought some wraps and spread flavored cream cheese (chive and onion in this case but we often just use the “veggie” one), baby spinach leaves, grated carrots, chopped olives and turkey. Spread the cream cheese on the wrap first, then lay out…
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How to Make Chicken Cutlets
Chicken cutlets are a favorite around here. I vary them now and then but our absolute favorite is how I prepared them tonight. The variations I’ve done over the years include pounding rather than slicing thinly, eggs and water for the binding rather than eggs and soy sauce and lemon juice, not marinating at all,…