I used my old coffee grinder (after washing it out carefully!) to make this Old Bay seasoning. I had some canned crab and used it to make crab cakes last night. Mmmmm! A treat, for sure, but sometimes you gotta splurge!
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Taking a break from recipes to write about one of my all-time favorite appliances. I can do without a food processor. In fact, I prefer to chop and slice and dice everything by hand. It seems to take me less time to do that and clean off my board and knife than assemble, chop, and…
Play Dough
Okay, here’s a different recipe for you: Play Dough! We like to make this red at Valentine’s Day. We roll it out and cut into heart shapes, put them in sandwich bags and deliver them as Valentines to the kids in the neighborhood.
Kitchen Sink Soup
Today I made “kitchen sink” or “garbage” soup for dinner. Here’s what I put in: a quart of hamburger broth (from boiling hamburger) a small container of mixed beans from the freezer a few cups of some turkey and vegetable soup I found in the freezer some leftover round steak and juices from the freezer…
Turkey Flautas
These were called “turkey tacos” when the recipe was given to me but I’d think of them as more like flautas. Whatever you call them, it was a great different way to use up the last of the turkey. Fried some corn tortillas just a minute or so on each side, then drained on paper…