CheapCooking
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Swordfish Kebabs
My kids asked for fish this week. I’ve mentioned that I’m not a huge fish fan personally, yet somehow despite this (or because of this?!) I’ve got kids who love fish! They pretty much like it all, at least all they’ve had so far. I sometimes complicate it a bit, when they’d really prefer it…
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Cheap and Easy Meat Sauce and Pasta
We had another family over for dinner this weekend and I decided to make just an easy meat sauce for dinner rather than cooking anything too fancy. I got the sauce started about an hour before they arrived, made up a salad, and got some garlic bread ready to pop under the broiler. This left…
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Future Cooking: Plant Your Garlic Now
Where I live, in the San Francisco area, it’s time to plant your garlic! I have been remiss the last couple of years and did not, alas, grow my own garlic which meant I had to actually go BUY garlic to plant! I went with a semi-local organic farm, Pleasant Valley. I’m sure I bought…
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Meat Pies or Cornish Pasties
I don’t claim to be an expert on pasties or anything else. In our house we call these Meat Pies. In the British cookbook I got the basic recipe from they’re called Cornish Pasties. It’s a great way to stretch a piece of beef. You can make these using regular pie crust dough or the…
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Apple Custard Pie
I wanted to make an apple pie tonight but didn’t feel like anything as heavy as two crusts. Yet, I didn’t want to just make a crisp or cobbler either. I thumbed through a few apple pie recipes, having some vague memory of a one crust pie I’d seen with some sort of custard. I…