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Dough Scraper, Bench Scraper – both names work for me!
This is by far one of the handiest kitchen tools I have! I use it for scraping and moving dough when making pasta or bread, (OK, useage for bread dough is way, way, way, infrequent!). I use it all the time when cutting and chopping vegetables or proteins for cooking. The blade is about 6…
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“Mom, I’m Starving!”
While growing up I have little to no memory of snacks during the day as a young child. We ate three good, home-cooked meals a day, and if we didn’t get our fill, we were out of luck. Snacks were meant for special occasions, like Christmas Eve, or when friends of my parents came over to…
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Tapenade
Tapenade – If you like olives, you will love this! 1 can black, pitted olives 1 jar green olives, pitted. My daughter makes this without the pimentos, I like it with for the color. 1 teaspoon capers – don’t omit these and think you are still making tapenade! 1/4 cup sun dried tomatoes, reconstituted. To…
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Granola
Granola – you can do it! It is so simple! You can choose when shopping for ingredients to make this easy recipe organic, or not! It is easy to put your own signature on this granola by using ingredients you like best! Have you ever tried warming up your milk before adding granola for a warm, delicious,…
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Clam and Shrimp Squares
Clam & Shrimp Squares This makes a wonderful lunch or brunch dish. Excellent on a buffet! 3 cups cooked brown rice. A mix of brown & wild rice would be great! 3 green onions chopped, tops and all. 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley 4 ounces of chopped, canned, mild, green chilies 1 cup grated…
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Down to the last drop
Just a couple of years ago I said a very happy ‘good – bye’ to monthly garbage service. Once the kids had moved on my husband and I had so little trash to fill our enormous green can we hauled down to the end of the driveway every Wednesday. We paid a hefty fee…
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Make it easy – goodbye, Tupperware!
Often I find myself wondering how much money I have spent on Tupperware, or RubberMaid, or who knows what brand of plastic container. Maybe enough to take a mini-vaction, or enough to buy an entire case of really good wine, or perhaps enough to pay for a semester’s worth of books for one of our…
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Eggies
Lucky me, I have a few hens that supply us with fresh, beautiful, pastel eggs quite faithfully all year long. The fresh egg access in our home began some 26 years ago when our daughter earned money to buy hens and her profitable little egg business began. Of course it was profitable! We bought all…
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Rice Cookers
Whether, white, brown, or wild rice, cooking it with boiling water in a huge pot has never been a problem for me. My rice has always turned out just fine. Our son left a rice cooker home when he moved the last time and it has been sitting in my pantry for quite some time.…
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Keep those knives sharp and your fingers safe!
For years I have had a butcher’s block knife holder sitting on my counter. This does the job of storing your knives but when you are busy preparing food you don’t need to guess which blade you will be pulling from your knife block. You can see the handles of your knives if you use…
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