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Frog Eye Soup and Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Sometimes you just need a simple dinner and it doesn’t get much simpler than this soup. It’s made with chicken broth, carrots and ancini di pepe pasta (little balls). Years ago we somehow named it Frog Eye Soup and the name has stuck. When you make it with good homemade chicken broth, it is unbelievably…
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Cleaning Copper-Bottomed Pans
I heated up some tomato soup for dinner the other night and while distracted the pot boiled over a bit, spilling tomato soup down the sides of the pot. Seeing the bright copper stripes where the tomato soup had spilled reminded me of how long it had been since I’d cleaned off the bottoms of…
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Broccoli and Cheese Soup
Dinner tonight was soup and sandwiches. It’s a simple time of year! Sandwiches were grilled ham and cheese, to which I also added some mustard, mango chutney and thinly sliced apples. Soup was broccoli and cheddar soup from Desperation Dinners. A similar version is here, although in the book there is also some Worcestershire sauce,…
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How to Cut up a Chicken
Trying to learn how to cut up a whole chicken into nice looking pieces? Here’s a great video on YouTube I found today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW5BFvCmV7k
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Round Up of Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy
A visual round-up of the recipes I’ve made and loved so far from Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy. This book is organized by regions of Italy, with a sampling of appetizers, soups, salads, main dishes and desserts. The pictures in the book give you a nice view of the countryside, markets, and such…