CheapCooking
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“Italian” Funeral Potatoes
There’s an old recipe called Funeral Potatoes, which includes frozen hash browns, cream of chicken soup, butter, grated Cheddar cheese, sour cream, and usually some sort of butter and cereal crumb topping, made from Corn Flakes. In my ongoing pantry challenge to use up a few things I decided to do something with the bag…
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Catalina Apricot Chicken
I was looking for a way to bake some bone-in chicken last night and wanted something other than my usuals so went thumbing through a few “community fundraiser” cookbooks. I had picked up half a dozen of them at the last library book sale for about 25 cents each. Eventually I’ll donate most of the…
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Yellow Squash with Pepperoni
I was looking for a side dish that would get a few vegetables in with our pepperoncini beef sandwiches tonight. We’ve had asparagus, spinach, and carrots this week so I wanted something of a different color. I settled on some yellow squash from Recipes from a Kitchen Garden, although I didn’t have any fresh basil…
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Slow Cooker Beef Roast with Pepperoncini
I have seen various recipes about cooking a beef or pork roast in the crockpot with a jar of pepperoncini and finally tried it today. I had bought a new crockpot recently. My old one always felt too hot on the bottom and in fact one day caused my Corian-like (but not Corian) counter to…
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Corn and Potato Chowder, BBQ Beef Sandwiches
I had a boring cooking week, as I mentioned before. Then we ordered a pizza on Friday night and I was out to a friend’s last night. Tonight I needed to use up some of the leftover London Broil I fixed Thursday night. In fact, I should probably freeze the rest of it as it’s…