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Sliders for Lunch
I wish I’d taken a picture but I did not. Last night I made patty melts with Swiss cheese. There are just two of us for dinner these days and I had a pound of hamburger. I could have frozen half, which I often do, but when I was at the store I had picked…
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Spaghetti Sauce aka Marinara Sauce Recipe
If you keep a few 28 ounce cans of crushed, pureed or whole tomatoes in your pantry, you’ll never be too far away from some good spaghetti sauce. Here’s a great easy recipe from Sara Moulton’s Everyday Family Dinners. Save
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Recipe: French Bread the Slow Rise Way
As opposed to my last bread post on no-knead artisan bread, I found myself on a lazy Sunday afternoon wanting to knead bread. Okay, really wanting to eat bread but I hadn’t mixed up another batch of the no-knead stuff and I wanted to compare kneading and rising with no-knead. I pulled out Brother Juniper’s…
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Chicken Soup with Rice in November
Do you remember the Maurice Sendak book about the boy who loves chicken soup with rice all year long? I told you onceI told you twiceAll seasons of the year are niceFor eating chicken soup with rice My girls learned that poem many years ago. And November is definitely a good month for chicken soup…
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Gringo’s Huevos Rancheros from the Pantry
The other night I stopped by a neighbor’s house for some wine and bread and cheese with some neighbors. It was 7:30 by the time I got home and I still wanted some dinner, but didn’t really want to spend a ton of time cooking something. Yet I wanted something warm and something more than…