Category: Side Dishes
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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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Cucumber Salad with Sour Cream Redux
I’m now on a quest. Here’s what I tried last night, which was good. Better than the earlier one I posted but not quite perfect. It’s from The New Settlement Cookbook, which you might be able to find around used, as it’s a few years old. I get a lot of good “plain old fashioned”…
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Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad
With the weird weather here, I was torn about what to fix for dinner for my two nieces who came tonight. I started out thinking I’d barbecue but then the forecast was for rain. When I went to the grocery store I saw a 7 blade roast on sale for $5.30, marked down $2. So…
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Artichokes
Springtime means artichokes to me. I’ve planted some artichoke plants this year, but that means I won’t be picking them until at least next year. In the meantime, the prices were finally low enough that I succumbed and bought some at the market today. Our never-ending rain here in California means that artichokes and asparagus…
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Fried Apples and Onions
I used to have some celebrity cookbook that I can’t quite recall. It was by a southerner, a movie star maybe, female I think. The recipes were mostly stuff I would not eat but was fun to read about: fried this and that, lots of salt pork and butter and bacon grease–great tasting stuff I’m…