CheapCooking
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Urban Homesteading
One of the ways I keep my food bill down is by growing a lot of my own vegetables and having some fruit trees. Now I’ve got chickens for eggs, as well. I want to grow even more and do some canning again this summer, which I haven’t done in years. I’ll do a fuller…
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Frisee Salad with Apple Slices and Cream Fraiche Dressing
My typical salad dressing these days is is one I don’t even mix up but just mix in the salad bowl. I put the lettuce or spinach or whatever other green leafy thing I’m using along with the chopped or sliced vegetables in a bowl, then pour olive oil over it and toss it until…
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Warm Spiced Chicken Salad Recipe
Warm chicken on cool lettuce makes a great combo: Chinese chicken salad, Caesar salad with grilled chicken, etc. This chicken is rubbed with cumin, coriander, salt and pepper before being cooked. The dressing has balsamic vinegar, sesame oil, peanut oil and sliced scallions and the salad is topped with sliced radishes. My teenager loved it…
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Please introduce yourselves!
I know not everyone likes to leave comments but I would love to have a few of you let me know who you are and what you do and what you like and what you’d like to see here. I can’t try new recipes every day, so then the blog falls behind a bit. But…
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Minestrone Soup Recipe
I’m not sure what the qualifications are for a soup being called minestrone but I started with this minestrone recipe from MrsWheelBarrow. I halved it roughly, although it was so good I’m questioning that decision! I used a can of lima beans, drained, rather than dried, left out the sundried tomatoes because I had none,…