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  • Leftover Ham Recipes

    Leftover Ham Recipes

    I cooked a ham last Sunday, even though there were just three of us.  (And cooked is an exaggeration… the one I bought was cooked so I really  just heated it. )  I usually follow this ham recipe because we really like the glaze.   But this one with rosemary and garlic is good, too. We…

  • Roast Chicken Legs, Onions, Potato Wedges and Asparagus

    Roast Chicken Legs, Onions, Potato Wedges and Asparagus

    The weekend was so busy I ended up grocery shopping on my lunch hour today. I was busy moving rocks and building new raised beds and shoveling compost and planting radishes, beets and basil. Dinner last night was a frittata with potatoes, leeks, chives, cheese and eggs. When I went grocery shopping today I checked…

  • Hunger Games Book Club Dinner

    Hunger Games Book Club Dinner

    I meet with a lovely group of women every month or so to talk about books. Sometimes we vote on what to read and sometimes the hostess just picks a book–as I did when I picked The Hunger Games.  I’d actually already read it but really liked it and wanted to share it. The hostess…

  • Another Great Cheap Cooking Food Blog: $120 Challenge

    I recently discovered the $120 Food Challenge site and wanted to share it with you. It’s an Australian blog by a woman who was hit by hard times (haven’t we all been at some time or another?) and started this blog to feed her family on $120 (Australian) every 2 weeks. She shares grocery shopping…

  • Ground Lamb Kofta

    Ground Lamb Kofta

    We like my fake Gyros I make with ground beef but I’ve been wanting to try them with ground lamb or a mixture and I finally saw some ground lamb at the grocery store. And I will do that one day…but tonight I saw this recipe for Ground Lamb Kofta Kebabs on AllRecipes.com and decided…