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  • Chicken Quesadillas Recipe

    Chicken Quesadillas Recipe

    I often make chicken quesadillas for dinner when I have some leftover cooked chicken. The other night I had cut up a whole chicken into 10 pieces (2 wings, 2 legs, 2 thighs, and then cut each half breast in half as none of us eat a whole breast piece). Tonight, I pulled the meat…

  • Bourbon Marinade for Beef

    Bourbon Marinade for Beef

    This is from one of my favorite cookbooks, The Complete Meat Cookbook. I use less salt and pepper than they call for. It seems plenty salty due to the soy sauce. Sometimes I use fresh ginger and sometimes ground. Mostly I use fresh garlic but if I’m in a rush I sometimes use the granulated.…

  • Broiled Shepherd’s Pie #2 with Frozen Peas

    Broiled Shepherd’s Pie #2 with Frozen Peas

  • Cheap Recipes

    The Food Stamp Nutrition Connection has a recipe database which tells you the AVERAGE cost per serving of a whole lot of recipes. You can search for ingredients or browse by category. The costs are based on a national average, adjusted for inflation (but perhaps a bit behind right now). It doesn’t show you what…

  • Sweet and Sour Red Cabbage from the Garden

    I mentioned before that I grew red cabbage in my winter garden this year. Tonight I cooked one up, using Simply Recipes’ version of sweet and sour red cabbage. Very very good! I probably had less than her 12 cups red cabbage. My red cabbages are smallish. But it came out delicious and made a…