CheapCooking
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Soft Tacos with Pork Carnitas
Record the day. I almost followed a recipe exactly. I did, however, begin with a different cut of meat… This is from the most recent issue of Cooking Light. I have to say I stopped my subscription because I got tired of all the non-cooking stuff in there. I don’t want to read about exercise,…
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Cucumber Salad with Sour Cream
Seems like I did a fair bit of cooking somehow this weekend, although we were off to Santa Cruz one day and to the Scottish Games the other. I am growing cucumbers this year. Two plants seems to provide me with “just enough” but not too many cucumbers. The girls like them plain. I like…
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Chermoulah
I got this recipe for chermoulah from an old copy of Fine Preserving which is annotated by MFK Fisher in the version I have. I tried this particular recipe because she declared it one of the best in the book. Although I’ve only tried a dozen or so of the recipes, I have to agree.…
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Summer Pasta with Fresh Tomatoes, Onion, and Basil
This is one of my favorite dinners in the summer, when I can walk out in the garden and pick the tomatoes just before dinner. My girls won’t eat it with the onions so I only put them in when they’re gone. I’m not sure about measurements since I just chop enough tomatoes and cook…
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Oldie but Goodie: Chicken Quesadillas
I’ve written this up before but blogs are not meant to be read through so new readers may have missed it. One of our favorite ways of using up leftover chicken is to make chicken quesadillas. The other night I roasted a chicken. As is often the case, I bought 2 or 3 when they…