CheapCooking
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SF Bay Area Locals – Particularly East Bay
Diablo Magazine is having a “best of” contents and they have a category for local blogger! If any of you would care to vote for Chronicles of a Curious Cook I’d love it! By voting, you get a chance to win a trip to Hawaii so maybe we’ll both win!
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Slow and Easy Pot Roast
Pot roast. What a great Sunday dinner! I just learned, from watching Alton Brown’s show on pot roast, that a 7-blade roast is called that because the bone looks like a 7. I admit to having stayed away from them in the past because I wasn’t sure what they were and thought “7 bones” seemed…
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Shepherd’s Pie #1 with Mixed Vegetables
I think British purists might insist that Shepherd’s Pie is made from “lamb mince” rather than ground beef, but here in the States everyone I know thinks of ground beef as the main ingredient to Shepherd’s Pie. In the UK this would be called Cottage Pie I believe. Lamb is not overly popular here I…
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Steaks with Bearrnaise Sauce
Date night last night. My normal mode of shopping is to plan for the entire week so the idea of shopping for one meal that you’re going to cook in a few hours is a novelty. But I had company. The girls were gone so we could have fun cooking grownup food and sharing the…
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Pureed Parsnips
In my continuing quest to experiment with more seasonal vegetables, I picked up some parsnips and turnips at the market this weekend. I have used both in winter vegetable soups. I typically use turnips in my Cornish pasties and have roasted both with various other vegetables fairly often but had not cooked them on their…