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High School Grad Party for 50
When you’re entertaining, you need to balance money, time and taste. I just had a grad night party for my eldest and I won’t say it was the cheapest I could have done, but it was reasonable and balanced the time I had available with the money I had available. My daughter wanted a “simple”…
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Candied Walnuts for Salads
It was just youngest and I for dinner tonight so we opted for a great salad with some sliced barbecued steak. She’s been into nibbling walnuts lately so I thought some candied walnuts would be a nice addition. I found this recipe and they came out great. My only issue was that the wax paper…
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How to Roast Garlic
Roasted garlic is one of those things that seems to have some undeserved mystique about it. The mystique about the flavor is well-founded. It is deliciously soft and smooth and wonderful. But any mystique about its preparation is not. Set aside half an hour or so and know that you can roast garlic ahead of…
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Great Tips on Saving Money on Food
Get Rich Slowly has a great post listing lots of articles and ideas on how to save money on food. Go check it out.
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Chicken Salad Sandwich: Simple is Good
Sometimes the simplest dinners are so good! I had barbecued some chicken leg quarters the other night, after marinating them in the best chicken marinade. We had one leg quarter left over. Last night for dinner I turned it into chicken salad for some great sandwiches. Pull the skin off the chicken and pull the…