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  • Great Dinner – But All Repeats

    Had a fantastic dinner last night, but no new recipes. Still, it made for a wonderful meal so in case anyone’s casting about for menu ideas, here it is: London Broil with a Lime Juice and Soy Sauce Marinade Chard with Garlic French Yogurt Dressing Sauteed Chard with Garlic and Lemon Juice (the girls don’t…

  • Tapas

    I was reading an article in some woman’s magazine about tapas. It said that tapas originated because bartenders put little plates of food on top of glasses of sherry in Spain to keep the bugs out of the drinks. Frankly, if a bug were to land somewhere on my food or drink, I’d think I’d…

  • Cooking and Planning Ahead

    On my CheapCooking discussion group, someone asked for help getting a reasonable dinner on the table when she didn’t get a home until 6pm. People chimed in with all kinds of great ideas, most of which boiled down to planning ahead and cooking ahead just a bit on weekends if you could. All the talk…

  • Easy Tapioca Pudding

    Easy Tapioca Pudding

    I looked online yesterday for tapioca pudding recipes because the only ones in my cookbooks involved separating eggs and folding in beaten egg whites later, something beyond the skill of my youngest, who wanted to make the pudding. I didn’t have the box of tapioca anymore, since I tend to store stuff like that in…

  • Tomato Salsa

    Tomato Salsa

    I read that Southern Californians are having a hard time with their tomatoes. Up here in the middle I’m having the best season I’ve ever had. Just one plant seems to have dried up for some reason. I’ll have to check the variety. I know it was a new one. But my Better Boys and…