CheapCooking
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Garlic Yogurt Dressing with Beets
I’ve been on a yogurt kick lately. Not sure why. The kids have always loved smoothies. And periodically they’ll go through a flavoured yogurt period, then it will end. But I almost always have plain yogurt around for cooking. I use it in place of sour cream or buttermilk for baking. I recently bought a…
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Basic Cheese Sauce
This post on recipe copyrights had me thinking about the simple “recipes” that have perhaps endless variations, but are all basically the same. Cheese sauce is perhaps not quite as easy as boiling water–but nearly so! Here’s the basics for a medium thick sauce, about what you’d expect from a can of “cream of” soup…
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I Want My Dinner Now!
I was sent this cookbook, I Want My Dinner Now, to review and it’s got some really neat features. First, I love that every single recipe is set up so that you get the ingredients measured for either 2 or 6 servings. So if you want 4 servings you can easily double the 2 servings…
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Mostly True: A Memoir of Family, Food, and Baseball
I’ve just finished this book and it’s delightful! In fact, I kept wanting to interrupt my reading to write up a blog post about it to share it with you all, but that would have meant I had to stop reading it–and the reading won out over the writing. Mostly True: A Memoir of Family,…
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Cucumber Salad with Sour Cream Redux
I’m now on a quest. Here’s what I tried last night, which was good. Better than the earlier one I posted but not quite perfect. It’s from The New Settlement Cookbook, which you might be able to find around used, as it’s a few years old. I get a lot of good “plain old fashioned”…