CheapCooking
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Cucumber Salad with Sour Cream
I’m reminded why I started this blog. The other night I threw together a cucumber salad that had sour cream, vinegar, and dill with sliced cucumbers. My dinner guest and I could not stop eating it! I usually make a cucumber salad with just vinegar, water, and sugar. And that one’s good, but the sour…
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Meat Sauce from Hamburgers and Cheater Garlic Bread
It’s summer barbecue time, graduation party time, hanging out at the pool and barbecuing time. I love it! A friend held a graduation party for her son last week. She did a fantastic job with the food and they barbecued chicken, steak, burgers and hot dogs. And had lots of burgers left. I took some…
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Cheap. Fast. Good!
I’ve been having fun with the new Cheap. Fast. Good! cookbook by the authors of one of my all-time favorite cookbooks, Desperation Dinners, a great book with good recipes that get on your table FAST, with few processed ingredients. They’re definitely not the “dump a can of cream of mushroom soup over some meat and…
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Cold and Sweet: Coffee Granita
This tastes so good you’ll be making extra coffee just to have leftovers! Basically it’s sweetened coffee with milk or half-and-half frozen. The trick is to keep stirring it while it freezes so you don’t end up with one big chunk of frozen coffee. Feel free to adjust the proportions. This was just about right…
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Rhubarb Cobbler
Pie plant is the nickname for rhubarb I’m told, but we just as often make it into crisps and cobblers. A few days ago I tried a recipe from Gourmet magazine for ricotta pudding cups with rhubarb on top, but alas I’m the only one in the household willing to eat them! The cobbler I…