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Beef Gravy without Drippings When You Need Beef Gravy In a Hurry
This is from The Fannie Farmer Cookbook: Anniversary, still one of my all-time favorites. One of those “if you could only pick one cookbook…” types. Luckily I don’t have to, but still, when you’re stuck for ideas this is a great resource. So the dinner situation was eldest was having her final driving lesson (yikes!…
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Google Recipe Search
I admit I often use Google to search for recipes, but I get frustrated when their search results so often show the same old sites over and over. I already know about those sites! And I do use them…but I use Google when I feel like exploring a bit more. Enter Google recipe search. It’s…
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Roast Garlic with Homegrown Garlic
I grow my own garlic and had the best harvest this year, due in part, I believe, to the lasagna gardening method I tried. Just a few week ago I used up the last of last year’s garlic so am now starting to cut the heads off the new braid hanging in the kitchen. Last…
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Coffee and Books
You know I love both. Just wanted to give a shout out to a friend’s new site. Check out CoffeeAndBookReviews.com. Some good stuff here… but I’ll have to point out that rather than dumping bad coffee down the drain you can at least pour it near any roses you have growing. They’re sure to appreciate…
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Burned on Food
Every cook has probably had to deal with burning food in a pan at some point. My daughter did it the other day with some tomato soup, made with milk of course. Ugh. We soaked it overnight to no avail. So I went online and found this page on eHow.com about cleaning burned pans. Wow!…