Category: Cooking/Recipes
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Eggs In Cheese Sauce – Retr0 Recipe
When my grandmother passed away, I received a few of her books, and one of them was a Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book. Recently, I started to go through and mark pages of things I have in the house so I can try making them. I color coded them too for quick searching. Yellow…
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Fresh Tomato Cucumber Salad
Well, the heat is here to stay for a while, so prepare yourselves for my Summer Food Series. This recipe is a new one in my book, thanks to my Aunt. It was under sad terms, a death in the family, but it was a memory I’ll never forget. We got into town in the…
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Kitchen Hacks
Recently, for reasons I’ve already discussed in THIS post, our families food budget has been reduced a bit, and were looking for ways to make things last longer. And my ritual when I get home from work is to sit, and check my blog views, and video views, while watching a video that has been…
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Chocolate Cake from Scratch
Remember a few posts ago when I made my very own cake mix? Well its time to give it a try! I was excited to make my first cake completely from scratch, and got started right away. The first thing I noticed was how dense it was. The batter was extremely thick, much, much thicker…
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The GOOD coleslaw
I am very particular when it comes to coleslaw. I think that 90% of the ones I’ve had put far too much sugar in it, or worse. They use that absolutely horrid ingredient……miracle whip. But one time I made shrimp tacos, and something felt wrong about topping it with the traditional taco toppings. So, I…
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Deliciously Simple Chocolate Cake Mix: Bake Your Perfect Treat Today!
Normally a boxed cake mix is part of every grocery list, there great to have on hand if you need to whip up a quick cake, or cookies, or whatever the case may be. And what’s funny, is with my love for homemade, and homesteading, making a cake mix from scratch didn’t even occur to…
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Fried Zucchini
Good news everyone! I’ve harvested my first Zucchini! I thought about saving it, and putting it in a stir fry, but I decided that I’d make something that I could see my family really enjoying instead. They don’t mind it in the stir fry, but they certainly weren’t a fan of it either. hat particular…
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Quick 2 Bean Salad
Where I’m from, it gets hot. Like stupid hot. The kind of hot that makes you want to crawl into the freezer to get some relief. With the summer, comes a lack of appetite for my husband and I. It will get just so hot that we just don’t get hungry. That means I have…
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Transform Cake Mix into Delicious Cookies with This Simple Recipe
For years I always thought a cake mix had to be made as per the box instructions. Until years ago I remember my mother in law mentioning something about getting a box of cake mix and using it to make cookies. At the time, my mind didn’t fully process it until years later when my…
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Turn Bread Heels into Homemade Breadcrumbs: Waste Less, Enjoy More!
Does anyone out there actually enjoy the heels of the bread ? For me, its my least favorite piece. And because I have the attitude “Waste not want not” When it gets to those pieces I will usually wind up putting them in the freezer. And very rarely will I use them. I don’t think…