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When Menu Plans Change, Save the Produce!
It happens to all of us. You make a menu plan, you do the shopping, and then something happens. I had a recipe I wanted to try that called for a red and yellow pepper but then I didn’t get to it. No way was I going to waste those peppers so I washed them,…
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Making Fudge: Substituting Chocolate Chips for Baking Chocolate
My eldest wanted to make fudge today. I was going to the store so picked up the marshmallow fluff and evaporated milk. I was SURE we had those squares of baking chocolate at home… Not! Uh oh. Found this table for substituting different kinds of chocolate. Yay! So we used 2 1/4 cups semi sweet…
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Frog Eye Soup and Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Sometimes you just need a simple dinner and it doesn’t get much simpler than this soup. It’s made with chicken broth, carrots and ancini di pepe pasta (little balls). Years ago we somehow named it Frog Eye Soup and the name has stuck. When you make it with good homemade chicken broth, it is unbelievably…
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Cleaning Copper-Bottomed Pans
I heated up some tomato soup for dinner the other night and while distracted the pot boiled over a bit, spilling tomato soup down the sides of the pot. Seeing the bright copper stripes where the tomato soup had spilled reminded me of how long it had been since I’d cleaned off the bottoms of…
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How to Cut up a Chicken
Trying to learn how to cut up a whole chicken into nice looking pieces? Here’s a great video on YouTube I found today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW5BFvCmV7k