CheapCooking
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Pizza and Sauce Cooking Class
On Saturday night I had offered to teach a few women how to make pizza. I mixed up some pizza dough early so it would be ready to roll out into pizzas a while after they got here. We started by mixing up another smaller batch of pizza dough and I let them each knead…
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Caribbean Red Bean and Pork Stew
I saw some pork stew meat on sale yesterday and decided to make some sort of stew that night. I found this Caribbean stew with red beans and pork in my Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition – 2006. I had everything else I needed, including a green pepper I picked from a pepper plant…
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Review: Hell Fire Pepper Jelly
I was sent a jar of this pepper jelly to try out and wow! Spicy hot sweet all at once. I think it’s got a bit more kick than your average pepper jelly. At first I thought “Whoa. Maybe too much.” Then about 3 seconds later I wanted more. I’ve only done two things with…
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Calzones with Fresh Tomato Sauce
Youngest texted me from school the other day asking if we could have calzones for dinner. I haven’t made them in ages somehow! I had everything I needed but the ricotta cheese so picked that up when I was out running other errands. You could do without of course. Sometimes I just make them with…
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Jamie Oliver’s Pizza Dough (4 pizzas)
I picked up Jamie Oliver’s older book, The Naked Chef, and found a recipe for pizza dough I really like. It makes 4 medium sized pizzas but I’ve been doing as he suggests and prebaking the extras for 5 minutes, then freezing. Makes it very easy to pull out a pizza shell, top it and…