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Basic Cheese Sauce
This post on recipe copyrights had me thinking about the simple “recipes” that have perhaps endless variations, but are all basically the same. Cheese sauce is perhaps not quite as easy as boiling water–but nearly so! Here’s the basics for a medium thick sauce, about what you’d expect from a can of “cream of” soup…
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I Want My Dinner Now!
I was sent this cookbook, I Want My Dinner Now, to review and it’s got some really neat features. First, I love that every single recipe is set up so that you get the ingredients measured for either 2 or 6 servings. So if you want 4 servings you can easily double the 2 servings…
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Meat Sauce from Hamburgers and Cheater Garlic Bread
It’s summer barbecue time, graduation party time, hanging out at the pool and barbecuing time. I love it! A friend held a graduation party for her son last week. She did a fantastic job with the food and they barbecued chicken, steak, burgers and hot dogs. And had lots of burgers left. I took some…
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Cheap Eats: A bit of press for CheapCooking.com
I was interviewed last week for an article at the Herald Mail. It’s a Maryland paper. I’d love to hear back if anyone who read the article found the site and the blog.
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Leftovers — What do You Do with Them?
Leftovers. They’re the bane and the prize of cooking! I hate plain old leftovers, except sometimes for lunch. In fact, certain things I treasure for lunches, since I work out of my home. But trying to use up leftovers and make them something other than “leftovers” for dinner is a challenge. Leftover rice and some…