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Chimichurri Sauce
Desperation Entertaining! is a great source of recipes for entertaining or just for your everyday dinners. As with the earlier Desperation Dinners, it is focused on making things easy for you. In the first book, all the recipes took about 20 minutes from start to finish (although they sometimes started assuming you already had the…
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Grape and Cucumber Salsa
The other night I was in the mood for total summer food. That to me means an easy barbecue. But I like lots of variety on the table, little bits of this or that. I decided to barbecue some chicken and marinated some bone-in chicken breasts in a mixture of 1 part port, 1 part…
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Beef Hash
This is a great way to use up leftover roast beef, flank steak, whatever you have around. If you plan ahead, save some gravy for this. You could even throw some chopped meat and gravy in the freezer and make this much later. I didn’t have leftover gravy but mixed up some of the “instant”…
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Pulled Pork
We’re having a neighborhood barbecue here tonight. In addition to the usual hamburgers and hot dogs, I wanted to serve some pulled pork sandwiches. I have a great recipe that takes a bit of mixing and measuring and I wasn’t quite up to all that today, since I have a host of side dishes I…
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Tuna Melts
First, you have to decide whether you’re making these for kids or grownups! My kids’ version is fairly simple. Figure on about 4 servings per 12 ounces of tuna. Drain the tuna and add enough mayonnaise to moisten, mixing it up well with a fork and breaking up all the big chunks. Spread the tuna…