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Coleslaw
My youngest requested pulled pork sandwiches and pork shoulder was on sale! I like it when requests line up with sales! I’ve done a few pulled pork variations in the past, including this pulled pork in the slow cooker where you basically make your own barbecue sauce with onions, garlic, chili powder, black pepper, chili…
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French Dip Sandwich with Deli Roast Beef
Here’s my normal French Dip Sandwich recipe, but it requires hours of time, a crock pot and perhaps more beef than you might like (although it does freeze well, especially if you freeze it in the jus/juice). Driving home from school today, youngest and I talked about dinner and settled on French dip sandwiches. We…
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Sort-of Buffalo Chicken Sandwich
Since neither of us were starving tonight but we still needed to eat dinner, I opted for a sandwich. One of us had had a chicken taco salad for lunch so I didn’t want to do another “salad with meat” thing. I had these fantastic breaded chicken cutlets from the other night so went for…
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Chicken Tacos Tonight, Chicken Salad for Lunch Tomorrow
I cooked up a couple of boneless skinless chicken breasts to make chicken tacos tonight. I started with the recipe here despite the mix of reviews. I was intrigued by the idea of lemonade somehow…but I would definitely classify the chicken as bland. When I tasted some partway through the simmering to reduce the sauce…
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Turkey, Spinach and Carrot Wraps
My eldest packed this for lunch for her first day of school. We bought some wraps and spread flavored cream cheese (chive and onion in this case but we often just use the “veggie” one), baby spinach leaves, grated carrots, chopped olives and turkey. Spread the cream cheese on the wrap first, then lay out…