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  • Play Dough

    Okay, here’s a different recipe for you: Play Dough! We like to make this red at Valentine’s Day. We roll it out and cut into heart shapes, put them in sandwich bags and deliver them as Valentines to the kids in the neighborhood.

  • Crockpot Spare Ribs

    Crockpot Spare Ribs

    Easy spare ribs for dinner yesterday. I cut them into individual pieces, salt and peppered them, and put them in the crockpot. Covered them with barbecue sauce and them cook all day. Just before serving I pulled them out of the sauce and broiled them a few minutes. The only thing I’d do differently next…

  • Pizza Sauce and Herbed Pizza Dough

    Pizza Sauce and Herbed Pizza Dough

    New pizza sauce tonight. I wanted to try something a bit chunkier and I only had canned diced tomatoes.  The pizza dough was fairly standard but I added some garlic powder, black pepper and Italian herbs. 

  • Kitchen Sink Soup

    Kitchen Sink Soup

    Today I made “kitchen sink” or “garbage” soup for dinner. Here’s what I put in: a quart of hamburger broth (from boiling hamburger) a small container of mixed beans from the freezer a few cups of some turkey and vegetable soup I found in the freezer some leftover round steak and juices from the freezer…

  • Easy Red Velvet Cake

    Easy Red Velvet Cake

    Make sure to turn the mixer OFF before adding the food coloring so it doesn’t splatter!