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Cinnamon Sugar Topping
I like to keep a small jar of cinnamon and sugar mixed up together. You can use this for cinnamon and sugar toast, yogurt topping, coffee cakes, muffin topping and so forth. It really comes in quite handy. Vary the ratio to suit your individual tastes. 1 cup sugar 2 Tablespoons cinnamon Mix together and…
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Bread Crumbs: How to Make Your Own
The other day we had two families over for dinner. As part of the feast, we had bought a couple of baguettes to serve up with spinach dip. We didn’t eat them all up of course. I ate a few slices toasted with sliced tomatoes for breakfast the next day but baguettes go stale fast! …
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Roast Chicken in 40 Minutes
If you haven’t ever butterflied a chicken, you need to learn! It will elevate roast chicken from a weekend meal (with lots of time to cook) to a weeknight meal. By cutting out the backbone and flattening the chicken, it cooks much faster. Jacques Pepin adds cutting into the joints of the legs and the…
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Raw Kale Salad from Dr. Weil
Everyone seems to be touting the health benefits of kale. I’ve used it in soups before but I think that’s about it. I decided to try a raw kale salad after a friend mentioned how good it was and went looking for something simple and easy. This one from Dr. Weil is about as easy…
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Creamy Pasta with Shrimp
I had a few leftover frozen shrimp to use up and decided on pasta with some sort of creamy sauce, like an Alfredo. I usually make an Alfredo sauce using cream cheese but didn’t have any so searched through some cookbooks for something else that sounded good. I stumbled upon from America’s Most Wanted Recipes:…