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  • Easter Dinner

    Awesome Pork Loin Twice Baked Potatoes Steamed Broccoli with Orange Sauce and Sesame SeedsRollsFried Apples and Onions Deviled Eggs plain applesaucesliced strawberries and shortcakes with Cool Whip The broccoli recipe you’ll have to beg my niece for. I know we steamed the broccoli but she brought the orange sauce already mixed up and the sesame…

  • Those Nights You Can’t Cook Much

    We all have them: those nights when getting dinner on the table is difficult or you’d just rather be doing something different! A friend said “That’s why you should keep some frozen Lean Cuisine’s in the freezer.” Well, no. That’s not my answer. I do keep some dinner “starters” in the freezer however. This might…

  • SF Bay Area Locals – Particularly East Bay

    Diablo Magazine is having a “best of” contents and they have a category for local blogger! If any of you would care to vote for Chronicles of a Curious Cook I’d love it! By voting, you get a chance to win a trip to Hawaii so maybe we’ll both win!

  • Shepherd’s Pie #1 with Mixed Vegetables

    Shepherd’s Pie #1 with Mixed Vegetables

    I think British purists might insist that Shepherd’s Pie is made from “lamb mince” rather than ground beef, but here in the States everyone I know thinks of ground beef as the main ingredient to Shepherd’s Pie. In the UK this would be called Cottage Pie I believe. Lamb is not overly popular here I…

  • Recipe Help Please: Pork Roast

    My frugal mind influences a lot of what I buy to cook. Sometimes at the grocery store, I see something where the price is so good that I have to experiment a bit. So it was yesterday when I “swung by” for some tortillas and a few other minor things and saw a pork shoulder…