CheapCooking
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Apricot and Mustard Baked Chicken Thighs
There are lots of variations on this idea of baking chicken (or pork) with an apricot jam and mustard mix. Sometimes there is some maple syrup added as in this version. Recently I ran across recipes in both Dinner: A Love Story: It all begins at the family table and Nigella Kitchen: Recipes from the…
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BLT Chicken Salad with Easy Ranch Dressing
Here’s another easy Ranch dressing to go this BLT Chicken Salad. In fact, I didn’t have buttermilk so I created a substitute with 1 teaspoon of vinegar in 1/3 cup milk. Just stir it in and let it sit for 5 minutes or so and you’ll have some slightly curdled buttermilk-like base for dressings. You…
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Cauliflower Cheese
I was rereading The Shell Seekers, a lovely book, and they kept serving cauliflower cheese during the war. It made me want to try some. When I looked it up, it seems it is basically cooked cauliflower with a cheese sauce on top, sounded both easy and good. And I had a cauliflower sitting in…
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Smashed Red Potatoes (aka Crash Hot Potatoes)
I’m not sure why these are called “crash hot potatoes” as they’re really more smashed. I saw someone else reference them on their blog, but can’t remember who. Then when I Googled the name, it seems that Ree Drummond got them from an Australian Jill Dupleix. I could have baked mine longer to get them…
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Chicken Burrito Bowls
I made the chicken burrito bowls again and played around with a different way to dress up the canned black beans for a day when I didn’t have time to caramelize the onions. You just add some dried spices and a minced clove of garlic and voila! Dressed up black beans. Of course, if you were…