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Bread Crumbs: How to Make Your Own
The other day we had two families over for dinner. As part of the feast, we had bought a couple of baguettes to serve up with spinach dip. We didn’t eat them all up of course. I ate a few slices toasted with sliced tomatoes for breakfast the next day but baguettes go stale fast! …
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How to Cook Artichokes
I’m often asked how to cook artichokes. I grew up mostly in California and we ate a lot of artichokes. I only remember my mom boiling them in water and serving with mayonnaise and lemon juice, which is still a favorite of mine. We love artichokes–so much so that I have 3 plants of my…
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Leftover Flank Steak Turned Into Tacos
I think it’s a good sign when something was so good I couldn’t wait to make it again! That’s how it was with the steak tacos I posted about earlier. I’d mentioned them to my sister who told me she’d made them and loved them. She added a bit of brown sugar to the steak…
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Sausage, Fried Potatoes, Apples and Onions a la Little House on the Prairie
This is one of our all time favorite dinners and almost as easy to make for one or two as for a larger group. If I’m making for one or two, I sacrifice everything being really hot at serving for the convenience of a single pan to clean. 😉 I’ve cooked fried apples to go…
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Random Chicken Picture
My chickens love wandering the yard, of course. I love it when they eat snails! I only let them out when I’m out with them so I can shoo them off the stuff I don’t want them scratching or eating. But even though I like to add borage flowers to our salads, I let them…