CheapCooking
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Family Friendly Dinner Parties
I had some friends over for dinner tonight. With my kids’ help, I planned what turned out to be a great kid-friendly and adult-delicious dinner. My kids are 15 and almost 18. Theirs are 5 year old twins. For appetizers, I put out some chips and salsa, always easy. I also made up some bruschetta…
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Pork Carnitas and Tomatillo Salsa (Salsa Verde)
These are both repeats but WORTH repeating! First the pork carnitas. Keep an eye out for pork roasts on sale and this is cheap gourmet! I usually cut a roast in half and just cook up half at a time. If you’re working with the half you froze before don’t defrost it all the way.…
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Marinade for Rib Eye Steak
I had some rib eye steaks in the freezer, a shame to freeze them I know but they were vacuum packed. I’d bought a Max Pack when they were on sale. After defrosting them, I marinated them in a mix of steak sauce, balsamic vinaigrette and minced garlic. Mix up your own vinaigrette or use…
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Pom Pomegrante Juice and Green Tea: Product Review
A while back the folks at Pom Wonderful offered to send me some pomegranate juice samples. Wow. I tried drinking the first one straight and it was a bit much for me, despite all the great health benefits they say pomegranate juice has. But then we saw some recipes for green tea and pomegranate juice…
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Cucumber Salad with an Asian Twist
The cucumbers this year are fantastic! I need to make sure I note which variety I used because they are really good, long and thin, not a lot of seeds and not all prickly on the outside. Some sort of Japanese cucumber I think. I have a few cucumber salad recipes I repeat a lot,…