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Updating the Blog and Broken Links
Sorry for the broken links! If you go looking for old blog posts that you’ve bookmarked, you’re probably getting 404 error messages. I decided to update the look and feel of the blog and while doing so to bite the bullet and use simpler names for the blog posts, dropping the date from the name. …
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How to Make Chicken Broth – or Turkey Broth
I like to freeze some broth in 1 and 2 cup portions for recipes, and in quarts for making soup.
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Make Ahead Freezer Meals: Recipes & Batch Cooking Ideas
Whether you actually like to cook or not, having a small freezer stash of either full meals (think casserole) or meal kits (think chicken or flank steak frozen in a bag with marinade that can be moved the fridge in the morning or the night before to defrost, then thrown on the grill or into…
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How to Cook Dried Beans
Dried beans are a great money-saver, but using them means you need to plan ahead a bit and have a few hours to cook the beans. If you make your menus ahead of time, you can plan this out fairly easily and just cook them on the weekend or start a pot of beans while…
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How to Boil Ground Beef
This is a great way to cook up 5 to 10 (or more) pounds of ground beef at a time, with no spatters to clean up. Later you can use it to make soup, hamburger stroganoff, chili, tacos, burritos, goulash, shepherd’s pie—whatever you normally make with ground beef. Put the ground beef in a big…