CheapCooking
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Split Pea Soup / Leftover Ham
When I bake a ham, there are always lots of leftovers. I always make sure I dice up a bunch of the ham and freeze it in two cup portions, roughly. I don’t actually measure. I fill a few sandwich bags of diced ham and then put each sandwich bag in a gallon freezer bag.…
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Grilled Cheese without the Butter
One of my favorite dinners is grilled cheese sandwiches and soup. I personally prefer my grilled cheese with a mixture of cheese, Jack and Cheddar being my favorite. I also like to pry it apart and put a bit of sweet pickle relish in the sandwich. Mmmm! Or to serve some sliced bread and butter…
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Cream of Broccoli Soup
The days suddenly turned from spring-like to rainy and windy again, as they do so often after a first little false-spring weather that tricked all the daffodils into coming up! The blossoms are all out on my fruit trees and do look beautiful against the contrasting dark grey skies! But we went from barbecues and…
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Sauteed potatoes
Sautéed potatoes go great with almost any meat for dinner. Or serve them with eggs for breakfast, of course! Potatoes are on sale around here, .99 for a 10 pound bag of Russets. For dinner yesterday I made these to go with some barbecued flank steak. Peel potatoes. Cut into 1/2″ slices, then cut those…
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Brown Sugar Chicken
Playing with bone-in chicken breasts some more last night. I had seen a recipe on a cooking newsgroup that people were raving about and decided to try it. Very simple. I wouldn’t rave about them but they were good and easy. Put the chicken breasts skin side up in a pan. Sprinkle with garlic powder…