Category: How To
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Basic Cheese Sauce
This post on recipe copyrights had me thinking about the simple “recipes” that have perhaps endless variations, but are all basically the same. Cheese sauce is perhaps not quite as easy as boiling water–but nearly so! Here’s the basics for a medium thick sauce, about what you’d expect from a can of “cream of” soup…
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Meat Sauce from Hamburgers and Cheater Garlic Bread
It’s summer barbecue time, graduation party time, hanging out at the pool and barbecuing time. I love it! A friend held a graduation party for her son last week. She did a fantastic job with the food and they barbecued chicken, steak, burgers and hot dogs. And had lots of burgers left. I took some…
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Those Nights You Can’t Cook Much
We all have them: those nights when getting dinner on the table is difficult or you’d just rather be doing something different! A friend said “That’s why you should keep some frozen Lean Cuisine’s in the freezer.” Well, no. That’s not my answer. I do keep some dinner “starters” in the freezer however. This might…
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Real Fried Chicken
I don’t DO fried chicken very often. I do oven fried chicken, baked chicken, sauteed chicken, barbecued chicken, and who knows how many other variations. But fried? Yet, that was the eldest’s request for a Sunday night dinner. And I do try to accommodate requests for specific dishes. Of course, given my penchant for experimentation,…
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Beef Broth
Ah, true confessions here. I make chicken broth all the time. In fact, I cannot remember the last time I bought chicken broth. I keep a container for carrot, onion, and celery ends in the freezer and a bag full of chicken bones and make broth periodically. I freeze it 1, 2, and 4 cup…