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Blog versus CheapCooking.com
I don’t normally ask for comments, but I’m curious about what people are reading. This blog is part of a larger site, CheapCooking. The blog is a more casual journal-like accounting of my own cooking. I started it as a means to keep track of things for my own use. I can see it drives…
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Orthodontist Night Dinner Menus
My eldest is in braces this year. I’m realizing I need to adjust my menu plans a bit to adjust for the “night of sore teeth”, typically the night after she’s gone to the orthodontist for her monthly appointment. Tonight, even tuna melts sounded “too hard” for her. Ouch! She had some of the applesauce…
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Fried Apples
This is one of my cheater meals. Heating up kielbasa or some other precooked sausage, whether grilled or pan-fried, hardly seems to count as cooking to me. And I know they’re not healthy, but they do taste good! Some nights, a treat is in order and an easy dinner is on the menu. Tonight with…
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Monday: Soup from Leftovers
I decided upon a soup and sandwich night tonight. The sandwich part was easy: bacon and tomato. I’ve got loads of tomatoes in the garden but that little nip in the air reminds me they won’t be here forever so I should enjoy them now! I started the soup going (“recipe” below) then spread the…
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Peach Vinegar
My reading lately has been made up of things like This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader, In the French Kitchen Garden: The Joys of Cultivating a Potager , and Golden Gate Gardening: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California . To top all that…