CheapCooking
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Butternut Squash, Indian Style in the Slow Cooker
I had not thought of butternut squash as an Indian dish but I was browsing through The Indian Slow Cooker: 50 Healthy, Easy, Authentic Recipes and spotted this recipe. This was delicious! When I’m cooking Indian food for dinner I like having at least 2 dishes plus rice, and at least one of those dishes…
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Olive Loaf with No Knead Bread
Using the no-knead bread recipe from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking I made an olive loaf for dinner last night. I had an opened jar of kalamata olives in the fridge and used about 1/4 cup of them to make this bread. It went great with the…
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Jamie Oliver’s Pickled Chili Peppers Recipe
In the back of Jamie Oliver’s The Naked Chef are two delightful recipes. The first I tried was his basic tomato sauce. I’ve made several batches of it and have 1 cup portions in the freezer. It’s a good basic sauce for pasta or pizza, with some balsamic vinegar and some red chili peppers for…
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Chicken Thighs Braised in Red Wine (aka Coq au Vin)
From How to Cook Everything, Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition: 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food but I only used boneless skinless chicken thighs and about half a chicken’s worth I estimated, so halved the recipes. Also, I didn’t have small boiling onions so just sliced a regular yellow onion. Skipped his suggestion of dried…
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Mushroom and Zucchini Saute
I saw The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks referenced on a blog somewhere and it intrigued me, especially as I’ve had friends ask me to offer some cooking classes some evenings in my home. Whether you already like to cook or feel like…