CheapCooking
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Reality TV hits the Cooking Shows
I love watching cooking shows on television, although I don’t remember often enough to do it regularly and don’t have anything but the most basic cable. I’ve caught an episode of Jacques Pepin’s Fast Food My Way, which was fun. The website has some fun little videos to watch as well. You can always learn…
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Easy Pinto Beans, Refried Beans and How to Use Them: Is My Blog Burning
It’s time again for Is My Blog Burning. The theme this time is beans, one of my favorite “CheapCooking” foods! These easy pinto beans are on regular rotation around here. We like other beans as well. I’ve made Black Bean Soup, Black Bean Mole, Bean and Corn Melange, a white bean and spinach side dish,…
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Easy Red Potatoes
The price of Russet potatoes is pretty hard to beat when I can get them at .79 for a ten pound bag fairly regularly. In the theme of CheapCooking, how can you go wrong? But for the sake of variety, red potatoes are awfully nice now and then and I picked some up today to…
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Pot Roast Recipe
I bought a boneless chuck roast a few days ago, thinking about pot roast. It was kind of funny that when I went through my cookbooks and looked up some roast recipes I remembered I noticed I’d always made them in January! (I tend to note in the cookbooks the dates when I first try…
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Easy Fruity White Fish
I am on a “pantry challenge” of sorts, trying to use up most of what I’ve stocked up on previously. January is always a welcome month to cut back on the spending and I’m well-stocked with food, plus have oranges and lemons on the trees and a few leeks left in the garden. I had…