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Make Your Own Breakfast Braid & Save A Little ‘Dough’!
Fruit-filled breakfast braids are available in the freezer section of your grocery store. They are rich, fragrant, and yes, just plain decadent. The fruit filling and sweet dough blend to make a sumptuous treat on any breakfast or buffet table. They are also …. expensive! These braids are easy to make yourself with frozen puff…
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It’s Everywhere! it’s Everywhere!
It seems every established yard in the Midwest, and just about every other area that has a cool Spring, has a rhubarb patch. Most patches have been inherited when a new owner purchased a property. A few rhubarb patches were intentionally planted and took off quickly to grow to a nearly wild state. Rhubarb…
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Noodles & Arugala – Fresh, Spring Side-Dish!
Arugula is available all year-long in most markets. You can usually find fresh, local, arugula every spring, and right through the growing season. Try this simple dish and be ready for a burst of freshness in every bite! 10 ounces wide, yolk-free noodles cooked according to package directions. 8 ounces fresh arugula, or…
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Springtime Ham & Asparagus Roll-Ups
Asparagus is long-awaited every Spring. Once the spears emerge from the ground and are tall enough to harvest we eat it fresh, grilled or steamed, but eat it all the time! After we have our fill of ‘just plain’ asparagus it begins to surface in other favorite dishes. Ham Roll-Ups are a favorite, and…
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The Ultimate in Pure, Clean, Food!
For longer than I care to admit, I have coveted chicken I could eat without worry or guilt. I craved chicken I could trust to be clean, healthy, and just pure chicken.Chicken without hormones or antibiotics, without feed raised under a cloud of herbicides and pesticides seemed out of reach to me. I always…
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Rhubarb-Maple Muffins! Yes, Spring Really Has Arrived!
Rhubarb heralds Spring in central Iowa more than anything else for me. As the weather warms and calendar pages turn I begin to nurse my rhubarb. I give it a few extra drinks of water. An old tire somehow magically appears around the spot where I know my rhubarb will eventually emerge. Now low and behold…
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Peeler Appeal
Looking for a lost/misplaced zester in my utensil drawer I found three vegetable peelers. Why have one when you can have three! Two were pushed and basically buried in the back of my drawer. They had not seen the light of day for quite some time, and definitely had never been in close proximity to…
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Boneless Pork Chop & Brussels Sprouts In Unique Sauce
Every once in a while we love to savor red meat. Pure and simple, we crave it. Sometimes our cravings lead us to bison, rarely to beef (almost never), and sometimes again to pork. Portions are strictly limited (as in weighed, trimmed, weighed again) to 5 ounces pre-cooked weight. Good pork that never left the…
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Hasty-But-Elegant Ravioli Soup! Low Fat & Low Sodium!
Soup is magic, I swear it! It can be a great meal in itself, or a wonderful first course. It is always so sweet to have soup as a first course when having company in for dinner. No matter what the soup, for some reason guests think you fussed and went to a great deal…
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Spring Couscous – So Good, So Easy!
Couscous is a light, unique side-dish that is incredibly easy to make. Most people who purchase couscous buy instant couscous, which is why it is so easy to prepare. But what is couscous anyway? Many confuse couscous with a grain, but it is pasta made from semolina, a type of wheat. It is mixed with…
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