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Braided Bread Recipe
This is part of my fiction cooking series. 😉 The recipe comes courtesy of Food to Die For. You don’t have to braid it of course but it sure does look pretty! I divided the dough in half and braided half for dinner and cooked the other half in a loaf pan so we could…
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Italian Meatballs with Ground Pork and Ground Beef
This is essentially how my ex-MIL taught me how to make meatballs and they are very good! You can bake them in the oven if you’d rather. I was stovetop intensive yesterday so just cooked them in a skillet. I used some in the lasagna and froze the rest for other uses later, like Meatball…
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Sunday Gravy aka Meat Sauce from The Sopranos
I somehow ended up with a great dinner (and then breakfast) based on two cookbooks based on fictional families, The Sopranos Family Cookbook: As Compiled by Artie Bucco and Food To Die For: Secrets From Kay Scarpetta’s Kitchen. First, was the Sunday Gravy from The Soprano’s cookbook, modified only slightly to make smooth sauce rather…
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Oven-Baked French “Fries”
This came from Cooking Light, although I’ve seen the idea elsewhere. Basically, cut up the potatoes into the size French fry you want and soak in hot (or cold) water. Cooking Light says hot. Elsewhere has said cold. Soak for 10 minutes or so, then drain and dry with a towel (or paper towels). Mix…
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Mongolian Beef using Leftover Steak
I had some steak left over from the other night. Usually I would have made fried rice and added the chopped steak but I decided to cook up some Mongolian beef using a recipe from Simple Chinese Cooking as my starting point. She has you use ground beef and marinade it before cooking, but my…