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Fried Fish Sandwich
In my quest to try to eat more fish, I made some crispy fish sandwiches from tilapia filets. I think they would have been better with some lettuce and tomato but I had neither around so I just added some tartar sauce and a slice of white onion. If you like, you can soak onion…
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Grilled Corn on the Cob
The easiest way I’ve found to grill corn on the cob is to pull the husks back toward the stalk, then remove the silk, then fold the husks back up to cover the ears somewhat. You don’t have to cover the corn back up all the way. Some charred corn tastes good. In fact, you…
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Cherry Crunch from Joy of Cooking
This Cherry Crunch is like a crisp but with the crunchy oatmeal based topping also added to the bottom of the dish as well for double crunchy goodness. The recipe is straight from Joy of Cooking, one of the books that would be on my list of “if you could pick just one cookbook” except that…
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Homemade Barbecue Sauce
I’ve been making this barbecue sauce for years, originally torn out of some magazine I can’t remember. It’s very simple: ketchup, cider vinegar, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce and salt. The original recipe called for liquid smoke but I leave that out since I actually barbecue anything I serve it with so get that natural smoke…
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Slow Cooked Barbecued Ribs
It wouldn’t be a summer holiday around here without barbecued ribs and that’s what I made for Memorial Day dinner. We had strange weather here, with it actually raining early on, which is very unusual. We don’t usually get rain between late April and September or October. The garden was happy anyway! I call these…