CheapCooking
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Oven Fried Chicken
Rather than buy those packaged flavored crumbs to bake your chicken or pork in, make up your own flavored breadcrumbs. This makes enough to season two chickens, cut into pieces. Mix it up ahead of time and keep in the pantry.
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Quick and Easy Chili
Purists may not like this, but this was my impression of chili until I went to a friend’s chili cookoff and saw people cooking with real chunks of meat or no meat even. Some had beans and some didn’t. And the fire level! Aye! I couldn’t eat much of it, although it looked and tasted…
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Paper Chef: Chicken with Sauteed Cabbage and Potatoes
My first Paper Chef entry. For those of you who don’t know, this is Tomatillo’s version of the Iron Chef. Ingredients are posted and you need to cook up something using those ingredients within a certain timeframe. I had a dinner party last night and was not brave enough to experiment on them, so this…
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Beer Marinade for Beef
In coming up with the menu for last night’s dinner party, I kept coming back to the hunks-o’-grilled-meat theme, rather than a more normal oven-based menu, given the storms we have been having this weekend. But I did end up barbecuing, first the pork tenderloin and then a top sirloin that had been marinated in…
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Avocados and Guacamole
Avocado prices have dropped and I am planning on going avocado crazy for a bit as I love them. My youngest likes to eat them with just a spoon and we both like them on turkey sandwiches. Toast and avocado spread on it like butter is a great breakfast. Sliced avocados in burritos or with…